"There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,—
Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail."

Johnson's

Vanity of Human Wishes

, line 159.

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[Footnote 3:]

Matthew Prior (1664-1721) became a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1688.

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[Footnote 4:]

For Capell Lofft and the Bloomfields, see