Jacob Bigelow

“ Pray, what shall we have for to eat eat eat?
Will the flame that you are rich in
Make a fire in the kitchen,
Or the little god of love turn the spit spit spit?”
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Responsum dat puellula,—Si flectar ad nubendum
Dic, quæso, quid cibarii habebimus edendum?
Amorem credis ignem in culinâ servaturum,
Aut parvulum Cupidinem jam veru versaturum?
Then the little man replied,
And, they say, a little sighed,
For his little heart was big with sorrow sorrow sorrow,
“My offers are but small,
But you have my little all;
And what we haven’t got we must borrow borrow borrow.” ”

“ The Chenodia, now first printed, an experiment for the author’s own amusement, partly in classic verse of various metres, partly in mediæval and unclassic rhyme, and partly, like the original English, in no metre at all, is tendered v as an offset for any disparagement of the dead languages contained in two essays read in 1865 and 1866, at a time when classical studies were paramount in Harvard University and other colleges of the United States. ”

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All Greek text includes a mouse-hover transliteration. Typographical errors are similarly marked. 1806 was Bigelow’s Harvard graduation year.
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ΧΗΝῼΔΙΑ,
OR
THE CLASSICAL MOTHER GOOSE.
Argutos inter strepere anser olores. ”