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I hear both Universities exclaim,
‘Peter, it is a glorious road to fame;
Eugè poeta magne—well said, Pindar?’
 

The violence of the Universities on this occasion may probably arise from the contempt thrown on them by his majesty's sending the royal children to Gottingen for education; but have not their majesties amply made it up to Oxford by a visit to that celebrated seminary—and is not Cambridge to receive the same honour?