Confedere duces: et, vulgi ftante corona, etc. Attempted in broad BUCHANS. To which are added A JOURNAL to PORTSMOUTH, And a SHOP-BILL, In the fame Dialect. With a KEY. By RF GENT GLASGOW: Printed in the Year M. DCC. LV. T" Upo their doups fat down; A rangel o' the common fouk In bourachs' a' stood roun. AJAX bangs up, fafe targe was fhught In feven fald o' hide; An' bein bouden'd up wi' wraith, Wi' atry face he ey'd OVID. METAMORPH. LIB. xiii. ONSEDERE duces: et, vulgi stante corona, CONSED Surgit ad hos clypei dominus feptemplicis Ajax. Utque erat impatiens irae, Sigeia torvo The Trojan fhore, an' a' the barks That tedder'd faft did ly Alang the coaft; an' raxing out His gardies, loud did cry: SHT O JOVE! The cause we here do plead, An'unco great's the ftaik; Bat fall that fleeth ULYSSES now Be faid to be my maik? Ye ken right well, fan HECTOR try'd He took to speed of fit, because He cou'd na' bide the ewder. Littora refpexit, claffemque in littore, vultu: Ante rates cauffam; et mecum confertur Ulyffes! Bat I, like birky, stood the brunt, An' flocken'd out that gleed, Wi' muckle virr, an' fyne I gar'd The limmers tak the speed. 'Tis better than, the cause we try Wi' the wind o' our wame, Than for to come in hanny grips At fik a driry time. At threeps I am na' fae perquire, Nor auld-farren as he, Bat at banes-brakin, it's well kent, Quas ego fustinui; quas hac a classe fugavi. Tutius eft fictis igitur contendere verbis, Quam pugnare manu. fed nec mihi dicere promtum; |