What a change in people’s lives!
Cupid giving life destroys,
Death destroying life revives!
Trans. J. Y. Gibson.
THE EATEN PANCAKE.
Leno. Ah, Troico, are you there?
Troico. Yes, my good fellow, do you see I am?
Leno. It would be better if I did not see it.
Troico. Why so, Leno?
Leno. Why, then you would not know a piece of ill-luck that has just happened.