[437] To this circumstance it is owing that the editor has never met with two copies, in which the stanzas are arranged alike, he has therefore thrown them into what appeared the most natural order. The verses are properly long Alexandrines, but the narrowness of the page made it necessary to subdivide them: they are here printed with many improvements.
[438] [blow.]
[439] Men of bulk answerable to their places, as is well known at Oxford.
[440] A butcher that then served the college.
[441] A cook, who on fast nights was famous for selling cow-heel and tripe.
[442] The drum.
[443] Who kept Paradise gardens at Oxford.
[444] A noted drawer at the Mermaid tavern in Oxford.
[445] Lord Lovelace broke down the bridges about Oxford, at the beginning of the Revolution. See on this subject a Ballad in Smith's Poems, p. 102. London, 1713.
[446] It has been suggested by an ingenious correspondent that this was a popular subject at that time:—