[Footnote 5: Scale"s publication on Greek Metres displays considerable talent and ingenuity, but, as might be expected in so difficult a work, is not remarkable for accuracy. ("An a.n.a.lysis of the Greek Metres; for the use of students at the University of Cambridge". By John Barlow Seale (1764), 8vo. A fifth edition was issued in 1807.)]
[Footnote 6. The Latin of the schools is of the "canine species", and not very intelligible.]
[Footnote 7: The discovery of Pythagoras, that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides of a right-angled triangle.]
[Footnote 8: On a saint"s day the students wear surplices in chapel.]
[Footnote i: "And place it". [4to]]
[Footnote ii: "The price of hireling". [4to]]
[Footnote iii: "Who canva.s.s now". [4to]]
[Footnote iv:
"One on his power and place depends, The other on--the Lord knows what!
Each to some eloquence pretends, But neither will convince by that.
The first, indeed, may not demur; Fellows are sage reflecting men, And know".
[4to. "P. on V. Occasions".]]
[Footnote v:
"And therefore smiles at his".
[4to. "P. on V. Occasions".]]
[Footnote vi:
"Now from Corruption"s shameless scene".
[4to. "P. on V. Occasions".]]
[Footnote vii: "And view unseen". [4to]]
[Footnote viii: "and early rises". [4to]]
[Footnote ix: "And all the" [4to]]
[Footnote x: "And agitates". [4to]]
[Footnote xi: "And robs himself of many a meal". [4to]]
[Footnote xii:
"But harmless are these occupations Which".
[4to]]
[Footnote xiii:
"When Drunkenness and dice unite.
And every sense".
[4to. "P. on V. Occasions".]]
[Footnote xiv: "And exultation". [4to]]
[Footnote xv: "But he". [4to]]
[Footnote xvi: "But mercy". [4to]]
[Footnote xvii: "But had they sung". [4to]]
[Footnote xviii:
"But if I write much longer now".
[4to. "P. on V. Occasions".]]
TO THE SIGHING STREPHON. [1]
1.
Your pardon, my friend, If my rhymes did offend, Your pardon, a thousand times o"er; From friendship I strove, Your pangs to remove, But, I swear, I will do so no more.