Carmen Possum

***Carmen Possum*** est puerile carmen quadraginta versuum, quo Lingua Latina cum Lingua Anglica miscetur. Auctor ignotus est.

*Carmen Possum* etiam est musica compositio a Normand Lockwood scripta.

## Textus
:THE NOX was lit by lux of Luna,
:And 'twas a nox most opportuna
:To catch a possum or a coona;
:For nix was scattered o'er this mundus,
:A shallow nix, et non profundus.
:On sic a nox with canis unus,
:Two boys went out to hunt for coonus.
:The corpus of this bonus canis
:Was full as long as octo span is,
:But brevior legs had canis never
:Quam had hic dog; et bonus clever.
:Some used to say, in stultum jocum
:Quod a field was too small locum
:For sic a dog to make a turnus
:Circum self from stem to sternus.
:Unis canis, duo puer,
:Nunquam braver, nunquam truer,
:Quam hoc trio nunquam fuit,
:If there was I never knew it.
:This bonus dog had one bad habit,
:Amabat much to tree a rabbit,
:Amabat plus to chase a rattus,
:Amabat bene tree a cattus.
:But on this nixy moonlight night
:This old canis did just right.
:Nunquam treed a starving rattus,
:Nunquam chased a starving cattus,
:But sucurrit on, intentus
:On the track and on the scentus,
:Till he trees a possum strongum,
:In a hollow trunkum longum.
:Loud he barked in horrid bellum,
:Seemed on terra vehit pellum.
:Quickly ran the duo puer
:Mors of possum to secure.
:Quam venerit, one began
:To chop away like quisque man.
:Soon the axe went through the truncum
:Soon he hit it all kerchunkum;
:Combat deepens, on ye braves!
:Canis, pueri et staves
:As his powers non longius carry,
:Possum potest non pugnare.
:On the nix his corpus lieth.
:Down to Hades spirit flieth,
:Joyful pueri, canis bonus,
:Think him dead as any stonus.
:Now they seek their pater's domo,
:Feeling proud as any homo,
:Knowing, certe, they will blossom
:Into heroes, when with possum
:They arrive, narrabunt story,
:Plenus blood et plenior glory.
:Pompey, David, Samson, Caesar,
:Cyrus, Black Hawk, Shalmanezer!
:Tell me where est now the gloria,
:Where the honors of victoria?
:Nunc a domum narrent story,
:Plenus sanguine, tragic, gory.
:Pater praiseth, likewise mater,
:Wonders greatly younger frater.
:Possum leave they on the mundus,
:Go themselves to sleep profundus,
:Somniunt possums slain in battle,
:Strong as ursae, large as cattle.
:When nox gives way to lux of morning,
:Albam terram much adorning,
:Up they jump to see the varmin,
:Of the which this is the carmen.
:Lo! possum est resurrectum!
:Ecce pueri dejectum,
:Ne relinquit back behind him,
:Et the pueri never find him.
:Cruel possum! bestia vilest,
:How the pueros thou beguilest!
:Pueri think non plus of Caesar,
:Go ad Orcum, Shalmanezer,
:Take your laurels, cum the honor,
:Since ista possum is a goner!

## Carmina similia veteriora
Similia ex multis linguis carmina iam diu ("latinitas culinaria") composita sunt. Lingua Anglica cum lingua Latina miscetur in dramatibus nomine *The Towneley Plays* (ca. 1460). In dramate vicensimo quarto (*The Talents*), Pontius Pilatus exclamat:
:*Stynt, I say! gyf men place*
:quia sum dominus dominorum!
:*he that agans me says*
:rapietur lux oculorum;
:*Therfor gyf ye me space*
:ne tendam vim brachiorum,
:*And then get ye no grace*
:contestor Iura polorum,
:Caveatis; *Rewle I the* Iure,
:Maxime pure,
:*Towne* quoque rure,
:Me paveatis.
:Stemate regali
:*kyng atus gate me of pila*;
:Tramite legali
:*Am I ordand to reyn apon Iuda*,
:Nomine vulgari
:*pownce pilate, that may ye well say*,
:Qui bene vult fari
:*shuld call me fownder of all lay*.

## Nexus externi
* Textus 
* Opera facta a Normand Lockwood collecta apud Universitatem Coloratensem

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