J. B. WHITBORNE.

_"Cane Decane," &c._--I should like to know, if you can inform me, where

the following couplet is to be found, upon an ecclesiastic singing a

hunting song:

"Cane Decane canis; sed ne cane, cane Decane,

De cane, de canis, cane Decane, cane."

Which may be thus freely translated:

"Hoary Deacon, sing; but then,

Not of dogs, but hoary men."

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