Crossword-Solution: MEST 4 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The only remark you might make concerns the quick tempo of the choruses in Act II., Scene iii., and of the "Lohengrin" passage in the third act [Here, Liszt illustrates with a 4-bar musical score example where the words, "Ath----mest Du nicht die su--ssen Dufte" are sung.] as compared with YOUR METRONOMIC INDICATION.

Tyrrhena regum progenies, tibi Non ante verso lene merum cado Cum flore, Maecenas, rosarum et Pressa tuis balanus capillis Iamdudum apud mest: eripe te morae, 5 Ne semper udum Tibur et Aefulae Declive contempleris arvum et Telegoni iuga parricidae.

After a time it was reported to Piānkhi that Tafnekht, the head of the rebellion, had laid waste his town, burnt his treasury and his boats, and had entrenched himself at Mest with the remainder of his army.

Ceste indentur tesmoyne q' mos^r Joh[=n] de Cobeh[=m] s^r de Cobeh[=m] ad baille [p=] assent de les sires de Morlee et Louel dys lib' de bone moneye amest' Joh[=n] Barnet, cest assau' cent south p^r le un [p=]tye et cent south p^r lautre [p=]tye acause q' mesme le dit mestre Joh[=n] et mest' Will[=m] Dawode et mest' Will[=m] Sondeye serrount assessours sur la matire pendaunt [p=]entre les deux syngn' susdite p^r leur armes en le Court de Chiualerie.

They're addicted to a kind of cat-bird whiskey over thar, which sets 'em to whistlin' an' chirpin' an' twitterin' an' teeterin' up an' down on the conversational bough, to sech a seemin'ly empty-headed extent it's calc'lated to mislead the ca'mest intellects into a belief that the c'rrect way to deal with Red Dog is to build one of these yere stone corrals 'round it, call it a loonatic asylum, an' let it go at that.