Crossword-Solution: JOCO 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Butler admitted his general merits; but said, "He would presume to apply to the worthy gentleman the words of the poet to Marrucinus Asinius, Manu Non belle uteris in joco atque vino." The discourse being thus turned on parish business, nothing farther occurred that can interest the reader.

Butler admitted his general merits; but said, “He would presume to apply to the worthy gentleman the words of the poet to Marrucinus Asinius, Manu Non belle uteris in joco atque vino.” The discourse being thus turned on parish business, nothing farther occurred that can interest the reader.

There could not, in all respects, be a more ill-matched pair than herself and Lord Oxford, or a stronger instance of the cruel sports of Venus, or, rather, of Hymen-- 'Cui placet impares Formas atque animos sub juga ahenea Sævo mittere cum joco.' "It has been said that she was, in some measure, forced into the match.

Quem videt, è longá sobolem admirata catervâ, Henrici[1] à superis lætiùs umbra plagis? Quem pueris ubicunque suis monstrare priorem Principe alumnorum mater Etona solet? Quem cupit eximiæ quisquis virtutis amator, Seriùs ætherei regna subire poli? Blande Senex, quem Musa fovet, seu seria tractas, Seu facili indulges quæ propiora joco; Promeritos liceat Vates tibi condat honores, Et recolat vitæ præmia justa tuæ: Præparet haud quovis lectas de flore corollas, Sed benè Nestoreis serta gerenda comis.

Later Old Islay had come up, crabbed and snuffy, to glower on Nan as he passed into the house behind her father, and come out anon smiling and even joco with her, mentioning her by her Christian name like the closest friend of the family.