Anonymous.
[Footnote 1: Coesper from Coena and vesper.]
[Footnote 2: lubriciles from lubricus and graciles. See the Commentary in Humpty Dumpty's square, which will also explain ultravia, and—if it requires explanation—moestenui.]
[Footnote 3: Sanguis meus: cf. Verg. Aen. 6. 836, "Projice tela manu, sanguis meus!">[
[Footnote 4: egnia: "muffish" = segnis; … "uffish" = egnis.
This is a conjectural analogy, but I can suggest no better solution.]
[Footnote 5: susuffrus : "whiffling" :: susurrus : "whistling.">[
[Footnote 6: spicula: see the picture.]
[Footnote 7: burbur: apparently a labial variation of murmur, stronger but more dissonant.]
THE NYUM-NYUM
The Nyum-Nyum chortled by the sea,
And sipped the wavelets green:
He wondered how the sky could be
So very nice and clean;