"Concursus spectat, plateaque negotia in omni, Omnia pro nugis at sapienter habet. Clamores, quos infra audit, si forsitan audit, Pro rebus nihili negligit, et crocitat."
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Cornicula, l. 15. Translated by William Cowper as "The Jackdaw"
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Vincent Bourne
Vincent Bourne (familiarly known as Vinny Bourne; 1695 – 2 December 1747), was an English classical scholar and Neo-Latin poet.
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