Βίοτον κατέχοις,
Καὶ μὴ λήγοις στεφανοῦσα.
“Oh great and august Victoria, hold my life, nor fail to crown it with thy smile!”
William Stevens, Printer, Bell Yard, Temple Bar.
FOOTNOTES:
[A] Napier begins his account thus: “Renewed Siege of San Sebastian.—Villatte’s demonstration against Longa on the 28th of July had caused the ships laden with the battering-trains to put to sea, but on the 5th of August the guns were re-landed and the works against the fortress resumed,” &c.—Hist. War in the Penins. book xxii. chap. 1.
[B] Part. This purely Saxon word (modern German, theil) is now written by us deal. “A great deal” means “a great part.”
[C] Ambling like an Andalucian barb.