But we were chiefly spoyl❜d by that, His lordship then was in a rage, His lordship lay upon the stage, His lordship cry'd, all would be marr'd: He knew he was to use their might Now pass we to the civil law, Who was, by the king's own appointment, The doctors of the civil law Urg'd ne're a reason worth a straw : And though they went in silk and satten, They, Thomson-like,§ clip'd the king's Latine; * Ludus dicebatur Ignoramus, qui durabat per spatium sex ho rarum. + Idem quod Bocardo apud Oxon. Insigniss. stultus. Paulus Tompsonus, qui nuper læsæ majest. reus ob aurum de curtat. But yet his grace did pardon then Here no man speak aught to the point, I' the colledge called God with us; Philosophers did well their parts, He far from Cambridge kept a school: But to conclude, the king was pleas'd, The king being gone from Trinity, They prest his lordship wond'rous hard, * Decorum quia Coll. est puritanorum plenum: scil Emanuel. So did they throng him for the nonce, Omnes Magistri estote." Nor is this all which we do sing, For of your praise the world must ring: For there is coming forth a book Ff2 AN ANSWER TO THE FORMER SONG, IN LATIN AND ENGLISH. BY LAKES. (FROM AN AUTOGRAPH IN MR. GILCHRIST'S POSSESSION.) A BALLAD late was made, But God knows who 'es the penner, Some say the rhyming sculler,* And others say 'twas Fenner ;* But they that know the style And doe maintaine it was the braine And first he rails on Cambridge, And throws dirt in her face: Then Cambridge is thy aunt. Then goes he to the town, And puts it all in starch, The former is Taylor, the celebrated water poet: the latter, William Fenner, a puritanical poet and pamphleteer of that pe riod, was educated at Pembroke-hall, Oxford. He was preferred to the rectory of Rochford in Essex, by the earl of Warwick. died about 1640. G. He |