Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake [43]
Quas est laus pacasse? Totae, totae, sunt partitae: Has tulerunt Muscovitae, Illas Count Andrassy.
"'Et quid est quod Angliae Dedit hic Congressus? Jus pro aliis pugnandi, Mortuum vivificandi - Splendidi successus!
"'Vult Joannes decipi Et bamboosulatur. Io Beacche! Quae majestas! Ostreae reportans testas Domum gloriatur!'"
"This version, which from internal evidence will be seen to be the true one, may be roughly Englished thus:
"Let us have our hearty laugh, Greatest of Congresses! After days and weeks pugnacious, After labours ostentatious, See how big the mess is!
"'Where are those who at our bar Their demands have stated: Robbed Roumanians rampaging, Greeklings with earth-hunger raging? Where? Absquatulated!
"'Where the lands we've pacified, With their rebel masses? All are gone; yes, all up-gobbled: These the Muscovite has nobbled, Those are Count Andrassy's.
"'And what does England carry off To add to her possessions? The right to wage another's strife, The right to raise the dead to life - Glorious concessions!
"'Well, let John Bull bamboozled be If he's so fond of sells! Io Beacche! Hark the cheering! See him home in triumph bearing BOTH (27b) the oyster shells!'"
(27a) "Der ehrlich Miikler."
(27b) Peace and Honour.
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"'Et quid est quod Angliae Dedit hic Congressus? Jus pro aliis pugnandi, Mortuum vivificandi - Splendidi successus!
"'Vult Joannes decipi Et bamboosulatur. Io Beacche! Quae majestas! Ostreae reportans testas Domum gloriatur!'"
"This version, which from internal evidence will be seen to be the true one, may be roughly Englished thus:
"Let us have our hearty laugh, Greatest of Congresses! After days and weeks pugnacious, After labours ostentatious, See how big the mess is!
"'Where are those who at our bar Their demands have stated: Robbed Roumanians rampaging, Greeklings with earth-hunger raging? Where? Absquatulated!
"'Where the lands we've pacified, With their rebel masses? All are gone; yes, all up-gobbled: These the Muscovite has nobbled, Those are Count Andrassy's.
"'And what does England carry off To add to her possessions? The right to wage another's strife, The right to raise the dead to life - Glorious concessions!
"'Well, let John Bull bamboozled be If he's so fond of sells! Io Beacche! Hark the cheering! See him home in triumph bearing BOTH (27b) the oyster shells!'"
(27a) "Der ehrlich Miikler."
(27b) Peace and Honour.
End