was again the prompt reply of Barrow, blending truth and rhyme with a precision that staggered the reverend examiner, who went direct to the bishop and told him that a young Cantab had thought proper to give rhyming answers to three several moral questions, and added that he believed his name was Barrow, of Trinity College, Cambridge. "Barrow, Barrow!" said the bishop, who well knew the literary and moral worth of the young Cantab, "if that's the case, ask him no more questions, for he is much better qualified," continued his lordship, "to examine us than we him." Barrow received his letters of orders forthwith.
DCXXXV.—A GOOD TRANSLATION.
"Pistor erat quondam, laborando qui fregit collum:
Qui fregit collum, collum fregitque suum."
Thus translated—
"There was a baker heretofore, with labor and great pain:
Did break his neck, and break his neck, and break his neck again."
DCXXXVI.—MAD QUAKERS.
A mad Quaker belongs to a small and rich sect; and is, therefore, of greater importance than any other mad person of the same degree in life.
DCXXXVII.—BACON.
A malefactor, under sentence of death, pretending that he was related to him, on that account petitioned Lord Chancellor Bacon for a reprieve. To which petition his lordship answered, "that he could not possibly be Bacon till he had first been hung."