That learned body wanted loyalty:
To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning
How much that loyal body wanted learning.
The answer came from Sir William Browne, a physician of Lynn in Norfolk:
The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse,
For Tories own no argument but force;
With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent,
For Whigs admit no force but argument.
The Condemned Jester
Horace Smith, one of the authors of the “Rejected Addresses,” tells us that a king of Scanderoon had a jester who played audacious tricks on the royal family, the courtiers, and persons of great distinction. But at length, emboldened by long tolerance of his freaks and hoaxes, the buffoon went too far: