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How the Commencement grows new.
It is no Curranto news I undertake,
New teacher of the Town, I mean not to make,
No New England voyage my Muse does intend,
No new fleet, no bold fleet, nor bonny fleet send,
But if you'l be pleas'd to hear but this ditty
I'le tell you some news as true and as witty.
And how the Commencement grows new.
New teacher of the Town, I mean not to make,
No New England voyage my Muse does intend,
No new fleet, no bold fleet, nor bonny fleet send,
But if you'l be pleas'd to hear but this ditty
I'le tell you some news as true and as witty.
And how the Commencement grows new.
72
See how the Symony Doctors abound,
All crowding to throw a way fourty pound;
They'l now in their wives stammel petticotes vaper,
Without any need of an argument draper,
Beholding to none, he neither beseeches,
This friend for ven'son, nor tother for speeches.
And so the Commencement grows new.
All crowding to throw a way fourty pound;
They'l now in their wives stammel petticotes vaper,
Without any need of an argument draper,
Beholding to none, he neither beseeches,
This friend for ven'son, nor tother for speeches.
And so the Commencement grows new.
Every twice a day teaching Gaffer
Brings up his Easter book to chaffer,
Nay some take degrees who never had steeple,
Whose means like degrees comes from places of people
They come to the fair, & at the first pluck,
The Toll-man Barnaby strikes'um good luck.
And so, &c.
Brings up his Easter book to chaffer,
Nay some take degrees who never had steeple,
Whose means like degrees comes from places of people
They come to the fair, & at the first pluck,
The Toll-man Barnaby strikes'um good luck.
And so, &c.
The Countrey Parsons they do not come up
On Tuesday night in the old Colledge to sup,
Their bellies and table books equally full,
The next Lecture dinner their notes forth to pull;
How bravely the Margret Professor disputed,
The Homilies urg'd, and the school-men confuted,
And so, &c.
On Tuesday night in the old Colledge to sup,
Their bellies and table books equally full,
The next Lecture dinner their notes forth to pull;
How bravely the Margret Professor disputed,
The Homilies urg'd, and the school-men confuted,
And so, &c.
The Inceptor brings not his father, the clown,
To look with his mouth at his Grogorum gown
With like admiration to eat rosted beef,
Which invention pos'd his beyond-Trent-belief:
Who, should he but hear our Organs once sound,
Could scarce keep his hoof from Sallengers round.
And so, &c.
To look with his mouth at his Grogorum gown
With like admiration to eat rosted beef,
Which invention pos'd his beyond-Trent-belief:
Who, should he but hear our Organs once sound,
Could scarce keep his hoof from Sallengers round.
And so, &c.
73
The Gentleman comes not to shew us his satin
To look with some judgment at him that speaks lattin,
To be angry with him that makes not his cloaths,
To answer O Lord Sir, and talk play-book oaths,
And at the next Bear-baiting, full (of his sack)
To tell his Comrades our discipline's slack.
And so the Commencement grows new.
To look with some judgment at him that speaks lattin,
To be angry with him that makes not his cloaths,
To answer O Lord Sir, and talk play-book oaths,
And at the next Bear-baiting, full (of his sack)
To tell his Comrades our discipline's slack.
And so the Commencement grows new.
We have no Prevaricators wit,
Ay marry Sir, when have you had any yet?
Besides no serious Oxford men comes,
To cry down the use of jesting and hums.
Our ballad, believ't, is no stranger than true,
Mum Salter is sober, and Jack Martin too,
And so the Commencement grows new.
Ay marry Sir, when have you had any yet?
Besides no serious Oxford men comes,
To cry down the use of jesting and hums.
Our ballad, believ't, is no stranger than true,
Mum Salter is sober, and Jack Martin too,
And so the Commencement grows new.
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