“Nolo interponere judicium meum.”
His name reminds me that he married a Cooke, the daughter of Dr. William Cooke, Provost of King’s College, Cambridge, for whom George the Third had so great a regard, that he extended it to his children. The Bishop and his wife being at Cheltenham when the King was there, and some person asking why his Majesty paid Dr. Hallifax such marked respect, was answered, “Sir, he married a Cooke.” This being in the presence of
THE CELEBRATED OXONIAN, DEAN TUCKER,
“I, too,” he facetiously remarked, “have a claim to his Majesty’s attention, for I married a cook,” alluding to the fact, that his second wife originally held that rank in his domestic establishment.
OH! FOR A DISTICH.
A Pembrokian Cantab, named Penlycross, having written an Essay, a candidate for the Norrisian prize (which it was necessary he should subscribe with a Greek or Latin motto, as well as a sealed letter, enclosing his name, after being for a time at a loss for one,) and having an ominous presentiment of its rejection, he seized his pen and subscribed the following on both:
“Distichon ut poscas nolente, volente, Minerva,
Mos sacer? Unde mihi distichon? En perago.”
“Without a distich, vain the oration is;
Oh! for a distich! Doctor, e’en take this.”