PIP. I warrant you, master, if there be marrow-bones in my lesson, I am an old dog at them. How construe you this, master, rostra disertus amat?
AMIN. Disertus, a desert—amat, doth love—rostra, roast-meat.
PIP. A good construction on an empty stomach. Master, now I have construed my lesson, my mistress would pray you to let me come home to go of an errand.
AMIN. Your tres sequuntur, and away.
PIP. Canis a hog, rana a dog, porcus a frog, Abeundum est mihi. [Exit.
AMIN. Yours, sirrah, too, and then ad prandium.
1ST BOY. Apis a bed, genu a knee, Vulcanus, Doctor Dee: Viginti minus usus est mihi.
AMIN. By Juno's lip and Saturn's thumb
It was bonus, bona, bonum.
2D BOY. Vitrum glass, spica grass, tu es asinus, you are an ass. Precor tibi felicem noctem.
AMIN. Claudite jam libros, pueri: sat, prata, bibistis,
Look, when you come again, you tell me ubi fuistis.
He that minds trish-trash, and will not have care of his rodix.
Him I will be-lish-lash, and have a fling at his podix.