Crossword-Solution: LITERATIM 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The attempt, or rather the intention, was highly creditable; the copy was carefully moulded upon the model and offered the best example of the _verbatim et literatim_ style.

Consequently there is no just reason for translating the whole verbatim et literatim, as has been done by Torrens, Lane and Payne in his “Tales from the Arabic.”[FN#305] This conscientious treatment is required for versions of an author like Camns, whose works were carefully corrected and arranged by a competent littérateur, but it is not merited by The Nights as they now are.

The lines shall be quoted verbatim, though not literatim; and perhaps no better example, and none more readily appreciable by a modern ear, could be given than the fourth of them of the harmonious effect of Chaucer's usage of SLURRING, referred to above:-- Why liked thee my yellow hair to see More than the boundes of mine honesty? Why liked me thy youth and thy fairness And of thy tongue the infinite graciousness? O, had'st thou in thy conquest dead y-bee(n), Full myckle untruth had there died with thee.

This famous passage of Scripture, this _locus classicus_, or prerogative text, pleaded for the _verbatim et literatim_ inspiration of the Bible, is the following; and I will so exhibit its very words as that the reader, even if no Grecian, may understand the point in litigation.

But among those still standing one records that some one "dyed 1729"; another states that the body below "is deposited here until the last trump"; and one, which must be the veritable original of the "affliction sore" rhyme, ends: "till death did seize and God did please to ease me of my pain." Still another bears this epitaph, _verbatim et literatim_-- "Stay friend stay nor let thy hart prophane The humble Stone that tells you life is vain.