Lycophron, form the base; and on a ribbon above is the legend, "An ass in the Greek pallium teaching." In other respects my copy agrees with Mr. Crossley's description of his, except that the argument (p. 7.) commences, "The great and good King Alfred," &c.
Perhaps the following lines (though I doubt their having been written at the age of thirteen) may be received as germane to the subject:
THE BIRCH: A POEM.
Written by a Youth of thirteen.
Though the Oak be the prince and the pride of the grove,
The emblem of power and the fav'rite of Jove;
Though Phœbus his temples with Laurel has bound,
And with chaplets of Poplar Alcides is crown'd;
Though Pallas the Olive has graced with her choice,
And old mother Cybel in Pines may rejoice,