Jerry Sneak, in Foote's

Mayor of Garratt

(act ii.), says to Major Sturgeon, "I heard of your tricks at the King of Bohemy."

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[Footnote 2:]

"The Ode of Horace—

'Natis in usum lætitiæ,' etc.;

some passages of which I told him might be parodied, in allusion to some of his late adventures:

'Quanta laboras in Charybdi!
Digne puer meliore flammâ!'"

'Natis in usum lætitiæ,' etc.;

'Quanta laboras in Charybdi!
Digne puer meliore flammâ!'"

(Moore.)

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