"ADHUC SUB JUDICE."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sec,—In the course of a long life I have come across many curious cases of Sorters (not only, or even usually, Vergilianae), but not many funnier than one which I added to my collection yesterday (29-8-16). I was still smiling inwardly at the German soldier quoted in the morning papers as writin. of " real English " (soldiers), when I took down, for quite another purpose, an old dusty book—Wright's Political Songs— from a shelf rarely visited, and turning the pages at random had these words suddenly before me :- "Post hos et hujusmodi bellicos laborer, Angli velut angeli semper aunt victores, Sooticis et Wallicis Bunt praestantiores."
As these words were written more than six hundred years ago, they will not enrage " Jock " or " Taffy " to-day—only make him laugh.—
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