There are no macaronic authors nowadays, though poems of this class are still to be had in colleges and universities; but everything pertaining to college life is ephemeral, coming in with Freshman and going out with Senior. College students are the prolific fathers of a kind of punning Latin composition, such as:
“O unum sculls. You damnum sculls. Sic transit drove a tu pone tandem temo ver from the north.”
“He is visiting his ante, Mrs. Dido Etdux, and intends stopping here till ortum.”
“He et super with us last evening, and is a terrible fellow. He lambda man almost to death the other evening, but he got his match—the other man cutis nos off for him and noctem flat urna flounder.”
“Doctores! Ducum nex mundi nitu Panes; tritucum at ait. Expecto meta fumen, and eta beta pi. Super attente one—Dux, hamor clam pati; sum parates, homine, ices, jam, etc. Sideror hoc.”
In a similar dialect to this, Dean Swift and Dr. Sheridan used to correspond. In this way:
| “Is his honor sic? Præ letus felis pulse.” |
The Dean once wrote to the Doctor:
| “Mollis abuti, | No lasso finis, | |
| Has an acuti, | Molli divinis.” |
To which the Doctor responded: