Placets] both _MSS._: places _1653_: placers _1677_. 'Placets', evidently right, would baffle a non-university printer; probably the editors of _1677_ attempted to correct it, but were again baffled by the printer.] [Line: 22 _1677_ 'they do not come up'--a natural but unnecessary patching of the line.] [Line: 23 old] _1677_ own--less well, I think. Both _MSS._ read in ll. 22-3: The country parson cometh not up, Till Tuesday night in his old College to sup. ] [Line: 26 'Marg_e_ret' _1653_: Marg'ret' _1677_.] [Line: 29 inceptor] = 'M.A. to be'.] [Line: 30 'o' of 'grog[o]ram' usually omitted, but both _1653_ and _1677_ have it here.] [Line: 32 The North usually salting and boiling its beef?] [Line: 38 Tanner MS. has the metrical punctuation 'To be'angry' found occasionally in texts of the time: 'marks' Tanner MS., all the texts have 'makes'.] [Line: 40 at the next bear-baiting] in his next company _MSS._] [Line: 44 _1653_ 'we' for 'you', less pointedly, I think.] [Line: 45 Cleveland lived to think better of Oxford--at least to take refuge and be warmly welcomed there. There has probably been no time at which either University was not convinced that the other, whatever its merits, could not see a joke.] [Line: 48 _1665_ (not a very good edition) and the _MSS._ read 'Mu_n_', which was of course the usual short for Edmund. But 'Mu_m_' in the context is appropriate enough and generally read. The intense Cambridge flavour of this seems to require special comment by a Cambridge man. For the duties of the 'Prevaricator' refer to Peacock's _Observations on the Statutes of the University of Cambridge_, 1841 (information kindly furnished by Mr. A. J. Bartholomew).] The Hue and Cry after Sir John Presbyter.