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Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi, he warbled; and I stopped my play, and listened as if to a nightingale, until he reached tu, Tityre, lentus in umbra
Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888
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Captain Faucon came quietly up to me, as I was at work, with my knife, cutting the meat from a dirty hide, asked me how I liked California, and repeated - "Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi."
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869
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I said, "Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fayi, be good enough to round up your sheep and travel."
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
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` ` Tityre, tu patulae recubans subtegmine fagi. ''
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848
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Captain Faucon came quietly up to me, as I was at work, with my knife, cutting the meat from a dirty hide, asked me how I liked California, and repeated -- "Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi."
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848
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Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fogi, know nothing of these broils.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757
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"Tityre, tu patulae recubans ..." were as audibly and intelligibly returned as the first; and there is no doubt, could trial have been made, but that at midnight, when the air is very elastic, and a dead stillness prevails, one or two syllables more might have been obtained; but the distance rendered so late an experiment very inconvenient.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756
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Bilbo, Titere tu, patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi.
The Merry Devil 1590
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Molliter hic viridi patulae fub tegmine quercfls Moeris paftores ct Meliboeus erantj Dulcia ja6tantes alterno carmina verfu,
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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MoUiter hic viridi patulae fub tegmine querdls Mceris pailores et Melibceus erant;
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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