With all his noble peers.—&c.
[7] Miscellaneous State Papers, vol. i. 394. 4to. 1778.
[8] A William Lake, who was M. A. and a fellow of Clare Hall in 1619, had also a ring bequeathed him by Ruggles, and might have been the author. See Hawkins’s edition of Ignoramus. Utrum horum mavis accipe.
[9] Biographical Sketches, vol. i. p. 38.
[10] Spencer, whose college disappointments forced him from the University. Milton is reported to have received corporal punishment there. Dryden has left a testimony, in a prologue spoken at Oxford, much against his own University. The incivility, not to give it a harsher appellation, which Gray met with, is well known. That Alma Mater has not remitted her wonted illiberality, is to be fairly presumed from a passage in her late most poetical son, Mr. Mason:
Science there
Sat musing; and to those that loved the lore
Pointed, with mystic wand, to truths involved
In geometric symbols, scorning those
Perchance too much, who woo’d the thriftless Muse.