[The Romany Rye by George Borrow]@TWC D-Link bookThe Romany Rye CHAPTER XXXIX 41/48
In 1444 Ulaszlo made, at Szeged, peace with Amurath for ten years, which he swore with an oath to keep, but at the instigation of the Pope Julian he broke it, and induced his great captain, Hunyadi John, to share in the perjury.
The consequence was the battle of Varna, of the 10th of November, in which Hunyadi was routed, and Ulaszlo slain.
Did you ever hear his epitaph? it is both solemn and edifying:-- "Romulidae Cannas ego Varnam clade notavi; Discite mortales non temerare fidem: Me nisi Pontifices jussissent rumpere foedus Non ferret Scythicum Pannonis ora jugum." '"Halloo!" said the jockey, starting up from a doze in which he had been indulging for the last hour, his head leaning upon his breast, "what is that? That's not High Dutch; I bargained for High Dutch, and I left you speaking what I believed to be High Dutch, as it sounded very much like the language of horses, as I have been told High Dutch does; but as for what you are speaking now, whatever you may call it, it sounds more like the language of another kind of animal.
I suppose you want to insult me, because I was once a dicky-boy." "Nothing of the kind," said I, "the gentleman was making a quotation in Latin." "Latin, was it ?" said the jockey; "that alters the case.
Latin is genteel, and I have sent my eldest boy to an academy to learn it.
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