Jerry Sneak, in Foote's
Mayor of Garratt
(act ii.), says to Major Sturgeon, "I heard of your tricks at the King of Bohemy."
"The Ode of Horace—
some passages of which I told him might be parodied, in allusion to some of his late adventures:'Natis in usum lætitiæ,' etc.;
'Quanta laboras in Charybdi!
Digne puer meliore flammâ!'"
'Natis in usum lætitiæ,' etc.;
'Quanta laboras in Charybdi!
Digne puer meliore flammâ!'"
(Moore.)