‘Arcades ambo
Et cantare pares, et respondere parati.’
We juniors, who happened to be present, were much pleased with the application. Soon after, being in the Doctor’s company, I mentioned how much we were entertained with the whole scene, particularly with the close: he smiled, and said, ‘It is Warburton’s,’ where I soon after found it.”
EPIGRAM
On a Cambridge beauty, daughter of an Alderman, made by the Rev. Hans De Veil, son of Sir Thomas de Veil, and a Cantab:—
“Is Molly Fowle immortal?—No.
Yes, but she is—I’ll prove her so:
She’s fifteen now, and was, I know,
Fifteen full fifteen years ago.”
NOVEL REVENGE.
Sir John Heathcote, a Cantab, and lessee of Lincoln church, being refused a renewal of the same on his own terms, by the Prebend, Dr. Cobden, of St. John’s College, Cambridge, upon accepting the Prebend’s terms, appointed his late Majesty, then Prince of Wales, to be one of the lives included in the lease, observing, “I will nominate one for whom the dog shall be obliged to pray in the daytime, wishing him dead at night.”