The country parson cometh not up,
Till Tuesday night in his old College to sup.
26 'Margeret' 1653: Marg'ret' 1677.
29 inceptor] = 'M.A. to be'.
30 'o' of 'grog[o]ram' usually omitted, but both 1653 and 1677 have it here.
32 The North usually salting and boiling its beef?
38 Tanner MS. has the metrical punctuation 'To be'angry' found occasionally in texts of the time: 'marks' Tanner MS., all the texts have 'makes'.
40 at the next bear-baiting] in his next company MSS.
44 1653 'we' for 'you', less pointedly, I think.
45 Cleveland lived to think better of Oxford—at least to take refuge and be warmly welcomed there. There has probably been no time at which either University was not convinced that the other, whatever its merits, could not see a joke.