Brings up his Easter-book to chaffer;

Nay, some take degrees who never had steeple,—

Whose means, like degrees, comes from placets of people.

They come to the fair and, at the first pluck,

20The toll-man Barnaby strikes 'um good luck,

And so the Commencement grows new.

The country parsons come not up

On Tuesday night in their old College to sup;

Their bellies and table-books equally full,

The next lecture-dinner their notes forth to pull;