"It is not," say they, "my invention; I tell it as I heard it: sit fides penes authorem; let him that informed me undergo the blame if it prove false."

Nidla fides regni sociis, omnisque potestas Impatiens consortis erit.

Decorum est foeminam in Germania nata [sic] discere Gallice, ut loquatur cum his qui sciunt Gallice; cur igitur habetur indecorum discere Latine, ut quotidie confabuletur cum tot autoribus tam facundis, tam eruditis, tam sapientibus, tam fides consultoribus.

So he nodded his head decidedly, as who should say"Oh yes, we did, it was a bona-fide swap!"

(Before putting glass to his lips) I suppose I must take it, because I am dry as a bona-fide traveller.