[Footnote 35: The Doctor, finding that Horace prescribed a nine years' delay for play or poem, inferred that more than twice that time was necessary for the learned labours of the editor of Strabo.] [Footnote 36: For the wonderful answers of the learned cuckoo, at logic lecture, we refer to his (the cuckoo's) equally edified class-fellows.] [Footnote 37: The reader will perhaps be astonished to find, that the Doctor as supposed to flatter himself with the hope that his attentions were not altogether unacceptable to a young lady of singular elegance and personal accomplishments, here alluded to.] [Footnote 38: "Obscoenæque volucres signa dabant."] [Footnote 39: The poet invokes his heroi-comic predecessors, the author of the _Lutrin_, and Alessandro Tassoni, whose _Secchia Rapita_, or Rape of the Bucket, is well known to the amateurs of Italian poetry.] [Footnote 40: No classical stranger could ever pass the porter in his lodge at Brazenose, without being sensibly reminded of a favourite passage in Horace, and exclaiming, "Quis multà gracilis--puer in rosâ, Perfusus liquidis--odoribus Grato----sub antro." ] [Footnote 41: "Procumbit humi bos." This is not the first time the Doctor has been overcome by _port_.] [Footnote 42: "Hine exaudiri gemitus, et sæva sonare Verbera, tum stridor ferri tractæque catenæ." ] [Footnote 43: With great practical justice and classical elegance, the words of the assailant are retorted upon himself-- "Suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo." ] [Footnote 44: The _boulevérsement_ is supposed to have happened on the green adjoining the gravel.] [Footnote 45: Dead deans, broken bottles, dilapidated lantherns, under-graduated ladders, and other lumber, have generally found their level under the pavement of Brazenose cloisters.] [Footnote 46: Like Virgil's nightingale or owl-- "Ferali carmine bubo Flet noctem." ] [Footnote 47: "Post mediam visus noctem cum somnia vera."] [Footnote 48: We have heard it whispered, but cannot undertake to vouch for the truth of the rumour, that a considerable wager now depends upon the accomplishment of this prophecy within nine calendar months after the Doctor has obtained a _bona fide_ degree.] [Footnote 49: Alluding to the collegiate punishment before explained.] * * * * * CHARLES EDWARD AT VERSAILLES. ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF CULLODEN.