Post sextam semi hora
At night, no friend refuses
To come lavare ora;
Est melior quam Aurorâ,
And fitter for the Muses, &c.
1700.
A diploma conferred upon George Durward, doubtless not without very grave consideration of his pretensions to the honour, is couched in much the same strain as the theses:
To all and sundry who shall see this,
Whate’er his station or degree is,
We, Masters of the Buttery College,