Responsio, &C. Per ⸺ Lakes
Facta est cantilena,Sed nescio quo autore;An fluxerit ex remige,An ex Fenneri ore.Sed qui legerunt, contendunt,Esse hanc tenelliOxoniensis nescio cujusProlem cerebelli.
Nam primò CantabrigiamConvitiis execravit,Quod vocitat Lutetiam,Et luto conspurcavit.Sed parce, precor, parcito,Nam istud nihil moror,Quum hujus academiæOxonia sit soror.
Tunc oppidanos miserosHorrendo cornu petit,De quibus dixit, nescio quid,Et rythmum sic effecit.Sed parce, precor, parcito,Bardos OxoniensesIn canticis non vicimusJam Cantabrigienses.
Jam inspicit crateraQuæ regi dono datur,Et aurum ibi positumSubripere conatur.Sed parce, precor, parcito,Nam scelus istud lues,Si fraudes sodalitia,Ad crucem cito rues.
Dein pro-cancellariumProduxit equitantem,In equum valde agilemHuc et illuc saltantem:Sed parce, precor, parcito,Nam tibi vix credeturSi non sub ejus cauda,Urtica poneretur.
Tunc evomit sententiamIn ipsum oratoremQui dixit Jacobissimum,Præter Latinum morem.Sed parce, precor, parcito,Orator exit talisQui magis pollet linguaQuam ipse naso vales.
Adibat ad comœdiamEt cuncta circumspexit,Actorum diocesinCompletam hic detexitSed parce, precor, parcito,Hæc cogitare menteNon valet jurisdictioVicario absente.
Fictitio equo subdiditCalcaria, sperans foreUt eum ire cogeretGradu submissiore:Sed parce, precor, parcito,Hoc non efficieturSi iste stabulariusHabenis moderetur.
Testis est Polonia,Quam sæpe is transivit,Et oneratus sarcinaEodem gradu ivit.Tam parce, precor, parcito,Et credas hoc futurum,Si Brutum regat AsinusGradatim non iturum.
Comœdiam IgnoramusEum spectare libet,Et hujus delicatuloStructura non arridet.At parce, precor, parcito,Tum aliter versatusIn faciendis canticisFuisti occupatus.
Tum pergit maledicereCicestriensi patri,Et vestes etiam vellicatEpiscopi barbati.Sed parce, precor, parcito,Et nos tu sales pone,Ne tanti patris careasBenedictione.
Tum cibo se ingurgitansAbunde saginatur,Et venter cum expletus est,Danti convitiatur.Sed parce, precor, parcito,Nam illud verum erit,Quicquid ingrato infeceritOxoniensi, perit.
At ecce nos videmurTenaces nimis esse,Gallinam unam quod spectassetDuos comedisse.O parce, precor, parcito,Hæc culpa corrigeturCum rursus CantabrigiaEpiscopo regetur.
Sed novo in sacelloPedissequos aspexit,Quos nostra AcademiaHonoribus erexit.Sed parce, precor, parcito,Nam ipse es expertus,Effugiunt omnes protinusCum carcer est apertus.
At nobis minitatur,Si rex sit rediturus,Tunc iste (Phœbo duce) estTela resumpturus.Sed parce, precor, parcito,Piscator ictus sapit,Fugatus namque miles inersArma nunquam capit.
Et Cantabrigiam nonLædi hinc speramus,Ex ore tam spurcidicoNil damni expectamus.O parce, ergo, parcito,Oxonia nunquam dicit,Cum Martio princeps abiensIn Maio nos revisit.
Words in this poem 16
- quod v.
- Quoth; said. See Quoth.
- nihil n.
- Nothing. Nihil album Etym: [L., white nothing] (Chem.), oxide of zinc. See under Zinc. [L.]
- cornu n.
- A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn. [L.]
- petit a.
- Small; little; insignificant; mean; -- Same as Petty. [Obs., except in legal language.] [F. See Petty.]
- quid n.
- A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco. [See Cud.]
- aurum n.
- Gold. Aurum fulminans (See Fulminate. [L.]
- lues n.
- Disease, especially of a contagious kind. Lues venerea, syphilis; -- called also simply lues. [L.]
- urtica n.
- A genus of plants including the common nettles. See Nettle, n. [L., a nettle.]
- valet n.
- A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on gentleman's person; a body servant. [F. valet, OF. vallet, varlet, vaslet. See Varlet, and Vassal.]
- pone n.
- A kind of johnnycake. [Southern U. S.] [Of Amer. Indian origin.]
- venter n.
- One who vents; one who utters, reports, or publishes.
- culpa n.
- Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart. Wharton. [L.]
- piscator n.
- A fisherman; an angler. [L.]
- ictus n.
- The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. [L., fr. icere, ictum, to strike.]
- ergo conj.
- Therefore; consequently; -- often used in a jocular way. [L.]
- revisit v. t.
- To visit again.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Responsio, &C. Per ⸺ Lakes is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poems of Richard Corbet, late bishop of Oxford and of Norwich 4th edition, Project Gutenberg ebook #65375; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
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Form and metre
Responsio, &C. Per ⸺ Lakes is 128 lines in 16 stanzas of 8 lines each. The metre is trochaic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 84%). 98% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 6.8 syllables. 7 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 38% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
See other poems in trochaic tetrameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 -----A-A cantilena · autore · remige · ore · contendunt · tenelliA · cujus · cerebelliA
- 2 ABAB-C-C cantabrigiamA · execravitB · lutetiamA · conspurcavitB · parcito · mororC · academiæ · sororC
- 3 -----A-A miseros · petit · quid · effecit · parcito · oxoniensesA · vicimus · cantabrigiensesA
- 4 -A-A-B-B cratera · daturA · positum · conaturA · parcito · luesB · sodalitia · ruesB
- 5 -AAA-B-B cancellarium · equitantemA · agilemA · saltantemA · parcito · credeturB · cauda · ponereturB
- 6 -A-A---- sententiam · oratoremA · jacobissimum · moremA · parcito · talis · lingua · vales
- 7 -A-A-B-B comœdiam · circumspexitA · diocesin · detexitA · parcito · menteB · jurisdictio · absenteB
- 8 -----A-A subdidit · fore · cogeret · submissiore · parcito · efficieturA · stabularius · modereturA
- 9 -A-A-B-B polonia · transivitA · sarcina · ivitA · parcito · futurumB · asinus · iturumB
- 10 -A-A-B-B ignoramus · libetA · delicatulo · arridetA · parcito · versatusB · canticis · occupatusB
- 11 -----A-A maledicere · patri · vellicat · barbati · parcito · poneA · careas · benedictioneA
- 12 -A-A-BBB ingurgitans · saginaturA · est · convitiaturA · parcito · eritB · infeceritB · peritB
- 13 -----A-A videmur · esse · spectasset · comedisse · parcito · corrigeturA · cantabrigia · regeturA
- 14 -A-A-BBB sacello · aspexitA · academia · erexitA · parcito · expertusB · protinusB · apertusB
- 15 -A-A-B-B minitatur · rediturusA · est · resumpturusA · parcito · sapitB · iners · capitB
- 16 -A-A---- non · speramusA · spurcidico · expectamusA · parcito · dicit · abiens · revisit
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against trochaic tetrameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Facta est cantilena, | 8 | ··˘/···· |
| Sed nescio quo autore; | 6 | ······ |
| An fluxerit ex remige, | 7 | ······· |
| An ex Fenneri ore. | 6 | ······ |
| Sed qui legerunt, contendunt, | 8 | ········ |
| Esse hanc tenelli | 5 | ····· |
| Oxoniensis nescio cujus | 8 | ········ |
| Prolem cerebelli. | 6 | ······ |
| Nam primò Cantabrigiam | 6 | ······ |
| Convitiis execravit, | 7 | ······· |
| Quod vocitat Lutetiam, | 7 | ······· |
| Et luto conspurcavit. | 7 | ······· |
| Sed parce, precor, parcito, | 7 | ······· |
| Nam istud nihil moror, | 7 | ···/˘·· |
| Quum hujus academiæ | 7 | ······· |
| Oxonia sit soror. | 6 | ······ |
| Tunc oppidanos miseros | 8 | ········ |
| Horrendo cornu petit, | 7 | ···/˘/˘ |
| De quibus dixit, nescio quid, | 8 | ········ |
| Et rythmum sic effecit. | 7 | ······· |
| Sed parce, precor, parcito, | 7 | ······· |
| Bardos Oxonienses | 6 | /˘···· |
| In canticis non vicimus | 8 | ········ |
| Jam Cantabrigienses. | 6 | ······ |
| Jam inspicit cratera | 7 | ······· |
| Quæ regi dono datur, | 7 | ······· |
| Et aurum ibi positum | 8 | ·/˘····· |
| Subripere conatur. | 6 | ······ |
| Sed parce, precor, parcito, | 7 | ······· |
| Nam scelus istud lues, | 7 | ·····/˘ |
| Si fraudes sodalitia, | 6 | ······ |
| Ad crucem cito rues. | 6 | ······ |
| Dein pro-cancellarium | 6 | ······ |
| Produxit equitantem, | 7 | ······· |
| In equum valde agilem | 7 | ······· |
| Huc et illuc saltantem: | 7 | ······· |
| Sed parce, precor, parcito, | 7 | ······· |
| Nam tibi vix credetur | 7 | ·/····· |
| Si non sub ejus cauda, | 7 | ······· |
| Urtica poneretur. | 7 | ˘/˘···· |
| Tunc evomit sententiam | 7 | ·˘/˘··· |
| In ipsum oratorem | 7 | ······· |
| Qui dixit Jacobissimum, | 8 | ········ |
| Præter Latinum morem. | 7 | ······· |
| Sed parce, precor, parcito, | 7 | ······· |
| Orator exit talis | 7 | /˘˘/˘·· |
| Qui magis pollet lingua | 7 | ·/˘/˘/˘ |
| Quam ipse naso vales. | 5 | ··/˘· |
| Adibat ad comœdiam | 7 | ······· |
| Et cuncta circumspexit, | 7 | ······· |
| Actorum diocesin | 6 | ······ |
| Completam hic detexit | 7 | ······· |
| Sed parce, precor, parcito, | 7 | ······· |
| Hæc cogitare mente | 5 | ····· |
| Non valet jurisdictio | 7 | ·˘/···· |
| Vicario absente. | 6 | ˘/˘˘·· |
| Fictitio equo subdidit | 8 | ········ |
| Calcaria, sperans fore | 6 | ······ |
| Ut eum ire cogeret | 6 | ······ |
| Gradu submissiore: | 5 | ····· |
| Sed parce, precor, parcito, | 7 | ······· |
| Hoc non efficietur | 6 | ······ |
| Si iste stabularius | 6 | ······ |
| Habenis moderetur. | 7 | ······· |
| Testis est Polonia, | 7 | /˘˘/··· |
| Quam sæpe is transivit, | 6 | ······ |
| Et oneratus sarcina | 8 | ·····˘/˘ |
| Eodem gradu ivit. | 6 | ······ |
| Tam parce, precor, parcito, | 7 | ······· |
| Et credas hoc futurum, | 7 | ······· |
| Si Brutum regat Asinus | 8 | ········ |
| Gradatim non iturum. | 7 | ······· |
| Comœdiam Ignoramus | 7 | ····˘/˘ |
| Eum spectare libet, | 5 | ····· |
| Et hujus delicatulo | 8 | ········ |
| Structura non arridet. | 7 | ······· |
| At parce, precor, parcito, | 7 | ······· |
| Tum aliter versatus | 7 | ······· |
| In faciendis canticis | 7 | ······· |
| Fuisti occupatus. | 6 | ······ |
| Tum pergit maledicere | 7 | ······· |
| Cicestriensi patri, | 6 | ······ |
| Et vestes etiam vellicat | 7 | ······· |
| Episcopi barbati. | 7 | ······· |
| Sed parce, precor, parcito, | 7 | ······· |
| Et nos tu sales pone, | 5 | ····· |
| Ne tanti patris careas | 7 | ······· |
| Benedictione. | 4 | ···· |
| Tum cibo se ingurgitans | 9 | ····/···· |
| Abunde saginatur, | 6 | ······ |
| Et venter cum expletus est, | 9 | ·/˘····˘/ |
| Danti convitiatur. | 6 | ······ |
| Sed parce, precor, parcito, | 7 | ······· |
| Nam illud verum erit, | 7 | ······· |
| Quicquid ingrato infecerit | 9 | ········· |
| Oxoniensi, perit. | 6 | ······ |
| At ecce nos videmur | 6 | ······ |
| Tenaces nimis esse, | 6 | ······ |
| Gallinam unam quod spectasset | 9 | ········· |
| Duos comedisse. | 4 | ···· |
| O parce, precor, parcito, | 7 | ······· |
| Hæc culpa corrigetur | 7 | ·/˘···· |
| Cum rursus Cantabrigia | 7 | ······· |
| Episcopo regetur. | 7 | ˘˘/˘··· |
| Sed novo in sacello | 7 | ·/˘···· |
| Pedissequos aspexit, | 7 | ······· |
| Quos nostra Academia | 8 | ·/˘·˘/˘˘ |
| Honoribus erexit. | 7 | ······· |
| Sed parce, precor, parcito, | 7 | ······· |
| Nam ipse es expertus, | 6 | ······ |
| Effugiunt omnes protinus | 7 | ······· |
| Cum carcer est apertus. | 8 | ···˘/··· |
| At nobis minitatur, | 7 | ·/˘···· |
| Si rex sit rediturus, | 7 | ······· |
| Tunc iste (Phœbo duce) est | 7 | ·····˘/ |
| Tela resumpturus. | 6 | ······ |
| Sed parce, precor, parcito, | 7 | ······· |
| Piscator ictus sapit, | 7 | ˘/˘/˘·· |
| Fugatus namque miles iners | 7 | ······· |
| Arma nunquam capit. | 6 | ······ |
| Et Cantabrigiam non | 6 | ······ |
| Lædi hinc speramus, | 6 | ······ |
| Ex ore tam spurcidico | 7 | ······· |
| Nil damni expectamus. | 7 | ······· |
| O parce, ergo, parcito, | 7 | ··/˘··· |
| Oxonia nunquam dicit, | 7 | ······· |
| Cum Martio princeps abiens | 7 | ······· |
| In Maio nos revisit. | 7 | ·/˘·˘/˘ |
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