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"NEC PLURIBUS IMPAR."

_On a very bad book: from the Latin of Melancthon_.

A thousand blots would never cure this stuff;
One might, I own, if it were large enough.

RUFUS.

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_Close Translation._--The following is a remarkable instance; for it is
impossible to say which is the original and which the translation, they
are so nearly equivalent:--

"Boys and girls, come out to play;
The moon doth shine as bright as day;
Come with a whoop, come with a call,
Come with a good will, or come not at all." {423}

"Garçons et filles, venez toujours;
La lune fait clarté comme le jour;
Venez au bruit d'un joyeux éclat;
Venez de bon coeur, ou ne venez pas."

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