Note 25 — Chapter XVI · MORE RAIN IN GALWAY—A WALK THERE—AND THE SECOND GALWAY NIGHT’S ENTERTAINMENT
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If the rude old verses are not very remarkable in quality, in quantity they are still more deficient, and take some dire liberties with the laws laid down in the Gradus and the Grammar:—
‘Septem ornant montes Romam, septem ostia Nilum, Tot rutilis stellis splendet in axe Polus. Galvia, Polo Niloque bis æquas. Roma Conachtæ, Bis septem illustres has colit illa tribus. Bis urbis septem defendunt mœnia turres, Intus et en duro est marmore quæque domus. Bis septem portæ sunt, castra et culmina circum, Per totidem pontum permeat unda vias. Principe bis septem fulgent altaria templo, Quævis patronæ est ara dicata suo. Et septem sacrata Deo cœnobia, patrum, Fœminei et sexus, tot pia tecta tenet.’