Punch . usonia. Durior Ausonise pullus, qui sustinet idemMarmora cum Sella : ne nimium sit onus! Ah, levis Ausonise pullus, qui calce protervaMabmoba cum Sella, proruta, fracta, terit. Or, Englished,On the Upset of\ik Marmora and Sella in the Italian rare nag this Italian colt, if he moves Under burden of saddle * and marbles * to boot:Grant, ye gods, he maynt shy! Ha! a shyer he proves,And saddle and marbles are trod under foot! Idem aliter panenvposcunt: dat marmora praeses. Quid mirum Ausonii marmora si renegant ?Frsenum indignantes sellam tolerare molestam: Qu
Punch . usonia. Durior Ausonise pullus, qui sustinet idemMarmora cum Sella : ne nimium sit onus! Ah, levis Ausonise pullus, qui calce protervaMabmoba cum Sella, proruta, fracta, terit. Or, Englished,On the Upset of\ik Marmora and Sella in the Italian rare nag this Italian colt, if he moves Under burden of saddle * and marbles * to boot:Grant, ye gods, he maynt shy! Ha! a shyer he proves,And saddle and marbles are trod under foot! Idem aliter panenvposcunt: dat marmora praeses. Quid mirum Ausonii marmora si renegant ?Frsenum indignantes sellam tolerare molestam: Quid mirum sellam marmora abacta sequiP Or, Englished,To give marbles to those who ask bread, is a blunder, For the marbles are sure to be overboard slung:Will a horse that scorns reins brook a saddle ? No wonder, If after the marbles the saddle is flung. * Mr. Punchs readers hardly need the information that marmora in Latin means marbles, and sella, saddle. January 6, 1866.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARL. PUNCH FOR PRESIDENT. (To the Members of the Royal Academy of Arts: Private andConfidential.) 85, Fleet Street, January, ,—Your Presidential Chair, which hasbeen filled by a succession of occupants, in aglorious gradation of artistic eminence, from SraJoshua Reynolds to Benjamin West, SirThomas Lawrence, Sir Martin Archer Shee,and Sir Charles Eastlake, being once morevacant, I am induced, by the demands of anoccasion so momentous to the Fine Arts in thiscountry to submit the following considerationsas to the appointment of your new President. You have all, no doubt, felt with me, the diffi-culty of finding even within the pale of a So-ciety so illustrious and variously gifted as yourown, a man combining the rare requirements, artistic, literary, socialand ceremonial, which ought to meet in a President of the RoyalAcademy. More or fewer of these requirements have, indeed, been blended,in varying proportions, in the successive holders of this great office, butyou w
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