And envious Under-graduates sigh forth as we draw near,

“O, crickey! how I wish I was a ‘new-made Bacalere.’

They rise up when they like at morn, they sit up late at e’en,

And hunt and quaff, and smoke and laugh, the whole Term thro’, I ween.”

From Hints to Freshmen. Oxford: J. Vincent.


The Lay of the Lover’s Friend.

I would all womankind were dead,

Or banished o’er the sea;

For they have been a bitter plague