He wrote a piece of humour, entitled ‘Horace in Trinity College.’ The fiction supposes Horace, in fulfilment of his well-known prophecy, _Visam Britannos hospitibus feros_, to visit Britain and take up his abode in the Master’s lodge of Trinity College, where he gets immensely fat (_Epicuri de grege porcus_) by the good cheer maintained at the expense of the society.... Perhaps the most laughable matter in the piece is the representation of a medal, bearing on one side a figure of Horace, with a cup of audit ale in one hand, some college rolls in the other, and an immeasurable rotundity of person; and on the reverse _E Promptuar. Col. Trin. Cant._ What the excellent bishop describes as ‘an immeasurable rotundity of person’ seems to have been far from uncommon in the Universities in these high days. We read in a note in Monk’s book, vol. ii. p. 394:-- The portly appearance of the three esquire-beadles at that day [about 1739] did much credit to university cheer. They are described by Christopher Smart, in a copy of Latin verses, by the following periphrasis:-- ‘Pinguia tergeminorum abdomina Bedellorum.’ We have certainly in Pope’s _Dunciad_ also an allusion to Bentley’s love of port (book iv.) in the following lines:-- As many quit the streams[201] that murmuring fall, To lull the sons of Margaret and Clare-hall, Where Bentley late tempestuous wont to sport In troubled waters, but now sleeps in port.[202] Pope always seemed to have disliked Bentley. But these lines, and, still more, Pope’s note, rather imply that Bentley liked his port. But everybody was not a _bon-vivant_. Many were in the world, but not of it. What a contrast to the authors quoted was John Philips, the author of _Cyder_, a Poem.[203] And it is a poem worth reading. Johnson calls it a Georgic after the manner of Virgil, nor does it suffer from the comparison. The advice contained in it is excellent. It praises use, it condemns abuse. It well serves temperance. Thus in book ii., after praising Nature for her annual gifts, which tend to the exhilaration of languid minds, he continues:--