(Vol. v., p. 166.)
In the "Notes on Books" references are made to Mr. Sandys' _Specimens of
Macaronic Poetry_, and to M. Octave Delepierre's _Macaronéana_. This
latter work I have not yet seen, but if it does not contain the
following specimen which I recollect reading many years ago in a costly
work, _Wild Sports of the East_, but which I have not since seen, I
think its insertion may amuse the readers of "N. & Q.":
"Arma virumque cano qui primo solebo peeping
Jam nunc cum tabbynox languet to button her eyelids
Cum pointers et spaniels campos sylvasque pererrant
Vos mihi--Brontothesi over arms small and great dominantes
Date spurs to dull poet qui dog Latin carmina condit
Artibus atque novis audax dum sportsman I follow
Per stubbles et turnips et tot discrimina rerum
Dum partridge with popping terrificare minantur
Pauci namque valent a feather tangere plumbo
Carmina si hang fire discharge them bag piping Apollo
Te quoque magne cleator, te memorande precanur
Jam nunc thy fame gallops super Garamantos et Indos
Nam nabobs nil nisi de brimstone et charcoal loquentur
Horriferifizque 'Tippoo' sulphurea, sustinet arma
Induit ecce shooter tuncam made of meat marble drugget
Quæ bene convenient defluxit to the waistband of breeches
Nunc paper et powder et silices popped in the side pocket
Immemor haud shot bag graditur comitatus two pointers
Mellorian retinens tormentum dextra bibarelled
En stat staunch dog Dingo haud aliter quam steady guide post
Proximus atque Pero per stat si ponere juxta
With gun cocked and levelled et æva lumine clauso
Nunc avicida resolves haud double strong parcere powder
Vos teneri yelpers vos grandivique parentes
Nunc palsy pate Jove orate to dress to the left hand
Et Veneri tip the wink like a shot to skim down ab alto
Mingere per touch hole totamque madesceri priming
Nunc lugite dire nunc sportsman plangite palmas
Ex silis ecce lepus from box cum thistle aperto
Bang bellowed both barrels, heu! pronus sternitur each dog
Et puss in the interim creeps away sub tegmine thorn bush."
These verses I have dictated from memory after forty years, and there
may be some verbal inaccuracies. The name of "Tippoo" seems to point out
their Eastern origin, but I am not certain of the _exact title_ of the
work from which I quote them, and I am indebted to "N. & Q." for the
name of Mr. Sandys as the author of _Specimens of Macaronic Poems_. In
my copy there is no indication of the author. Was there a second
edition?