Two little birds were sitting on a stone, One flew away and then there was one, T’ other flew away and then there was none, So the poor stone was left all alone.
One of the little birds back again flew, In came t’ other and then there were two; Says one bird to t’ other, “How do you do?” “Very well, I thank you; pray how do you?”
Fama est par avium venisse insistere saxo, Quarum primâ abeunte superstitit inde secunda: Illa autem fugiens jam vix vestigia liquit, Et saxum mœrens in campo luget inani.
Ecce autem rediens avium comparuit una, Altera non segnis sociam complectitur almam: Arreptâque manu, “Quid agis dulcissima rerum?” “Suaviter ut nunc est, et jam cupio omnia quæ vis.”
REX ARTHURUS
When King Arthur ruled the land, He ruled it like a king: He bought four pecks of barley-meal To make a brave pudding.
A pudding brave the king did make And stuffed it well with plums; Great lumps of suet he put into it, As big as both his thumbs.
The king and queen partook thereof, And all the court beside; And what they did not eat that night, The queen next morning fried.
Angliæ rex imperio potitus, Hordei nactus modium farinæ, Ordinat cœnâ properè institutâ Sternere mensam.
Mira farrago exoritur culinâ, Turgidis uvis maculata passis Intus et frustis adipis referta Pollicis instar.
Rex et affines epulantur omnes Principes magni dominæque lectæ: Alma regina exoriente luce Fragmina frixit.