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Si quid urbaniusculè lusum a nobis, per Musas et Charitas et omnium poetarum Numina, Ore te, ne me malè capias
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Latin
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italics, smaller
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Frontispiece of Volume IX
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"If we have joked with anything too facetiusly, by the power of the Muses and the Graces and the divine power of all poets, I pray you, don’t take it ill of me"
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"Though you might prefer a somewhat more polite amusement, by the Muses and the Charities and the grace of all poets, do not think badly of me"
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cuvetts
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French
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italics
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Vol IX,
Ch XI
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"Trench or a kind of bed-pan"
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"So far the meaning is "trenches", but here it’s probably a joke, cuvette is also a bedpan"
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