Inqne mero moUita Ceres, Tiolieq' solntao:
Haec habeat media testa relicta via.
Nee majora reto: sed et his placabilis umbra est.
Adde preces positis et saa yerba focis.
Hnnc morem JEneas, pietatis idoneas auctor,
Attnlit in terras, jaste Latine, tnas.
Ble patris Genio solemiia dona ferebat ;
Hinc popnli ritus edidicere pios. — [F. ii. 533-546.]
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Vix eqnidem credo: bnstis exisse femntnr,
Et tacitse qnesti tempore noctis ari.
Perq' yias Urbis, Latosq' nlnlasse per agros
Deformes animas, ynlgns inane, f enmt.
Post ea prsBteriti tomalis reddnntnrhonores;
Frodigiisq' yenit foneribnsq* modus. — [F. ii. 551-556.]
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Nnnc animn tennes, et corpora fnncta sepnlchris
Errant; nunc posito pascitnr nmbra cibo.
Nee tamen hoc ultra, quam qanm [tot] de mense snpersint
Lnciferi, qaot habent carmina nostra pedes.— [F. ii. 665-668.]
Childrens teeth burnt.
When Children shaled their Teeth the women use to wrap, or put salt about the tooth, and so throw it into a good fire. The above-mentioned Cramer saith that in Germany, in his native Country, some women will bid their Children to take the Tooth, which is fallen or taken out, and goe to a dark comer of the house or Parlour, and cast the same into it thereby saying these words:
Mouse I Here I give the a tooth of bone,
But giye thou me an Iron-on
(or Iron Tooth), beleeving, that another good tooth will grow in its place.
Tyeing the tongues of foes with a charms.
Ecce anus in mediis residens annosa pnellis,
Sacra facitTacitffi: yix tamen ipsa tacet.
Et digitis tria thnra tribns snb limine ponit,
Qua brevis occnitnm mns sibi fecit iter.
Turn cantata tenet [ligat] cmn fnsco licia plnmbo
[rhombo],
Et septem nigras versat in ore fabas.— [F. ii, 571-576.]
