It being heard that Her Majesty had gone to see the lions at supper.
Third Concord.
The relative and the antecedent.
The relative and antecedent hit it off very well together; they agree one with the other in gender, number, and person, as
Qui plenos haurit cyathos, madidusque quiescit,
Ille bonam degit vitam, moriturque facetus.
“He who drinks plenty, and goes to bed mellow,
Lives as he ought to do, and dies a jolly fellow.”
Horace was the fellow for this kind of thing. Cato must have been a regular wet blanket.
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