Then quit her, my friend! Your bosom defend, Ere quite with her snares you're beset: Lest your deep-wounded heart, When incens'd by the smart, Should lead you to _curse_ the _coquette_. October 27, 1806. [vi] [Footnote 1: The letters "C. B. F. J. B. M." are added, in a lady's hand, in the annotated copy of 'P. on V. Occasions', p. 14 (British Museum).] [Footnote i: _But believe me_. [4to]] [Footnote ii: _But a partial_. [4to]] [Footnote iii: _Nor seem_. [4to. 'P. on V. Occasions'.]] [Footnote iv: _But if from false pride._ [4to]] [Footnote v: _But form this design._ [4to]] [Footnote vi: BYRON, October 27, 1806. [4to] GRANTA. A MEDLEY. [Greek: Argureais logchaisi machou kai panta krataese_o.] [1] (Reply of the Pythian Oracle to Philip of Macedon.) 1. Oh! could LE SAGE'S [2] demon's gift Be realis'd at my desire, This night my trembling form he'd lift To place it on St. Mary's spire. [i] 2. Then would, unroof'd, old Granta's halls, Pedantic inmates full display; _Fellows_ who dream on _lawn_ or _stalls_, The price of venal votes to pay. [ii] 3. Then would I view each rival wight, PETTY and PALMERSTON survey; Who canvass there, with all their might, [iii] Against the next elective day. [3] 4. Lo! candidates and voters lie [iv] All lull'd in sleep, a goodly number! A race renown'd for piety, Whose conscience won't disturb their slumber. 5. Lord H---[4] indeed, may not demur; Fellows are sage, reflecting men: They know preferment can occur, But very seldom,--_now_ and _then_. 6. They know the Chancellor has got Some pretty livings in disposal: Each hopes that _one_ may be his _lot_, And, therefore, smiles on his proposal. [v] 7. Now from the soporific scene [vi] I'll turn mine eye, as night grows later, To view, unheeded and unseen, [vii] The studious sons of Alma Mater. 8. There, in apartments small and damp, The candidate for college prizes, Sits poring by the midnight lamp; Goes late to bed, yet early rises. [viii] 9. He surely well deserves to gain them, With all the honours of his college, [ix] Who, striving hardly to obtain them, Thus seeks unprofitable knowledge: 10. Who sacrifices hours of rest, To scan precisely metres Attic; Or agitates his anxious breast, [x] In solving problems mathematic: 11. Who reads false quantities in Seale, [5] Or puzzles o'er the deep triangle; Depriv'd of many a wholesome meal; [xi] In _barbarous Latin_ [6] doom'd to wrangle: 12. Renouncing every pleasing page, From authors of historic use; Preferring to the letter'd sage, The square of the hypothenuse. [7] 13. Still, harmless are these occupations, [xii] That hurt none but the hapless student, Compar'd with other recreations, Which bring together the imprudent; 14.