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the ufe of a MS. to Boyle; a MS. is of 
no further fervice,when you have {queezed 
out the juice.” 
The anT1QUITY of ihe UNIVERSITY of 
OXFORD. 
Tt will be fair, as the arguments in fa- 
vour of the fuperior antiquity of Cam- 
bridge have been already produced, to 
give Oxford her turn on this queition. As 
Caius has himfelf produced the arguments, 
under the form of, Affertio Antiq. Oxon. 
Acad. incerto authore ejujdem Gymnafi ; 
in order to anfwer them, prefixing them 
to his hiftory, I fhall here give a tranfla- 
tion of a few of them. 
‘¢ Alfred was born about the year 873. 
It appears, that the College of the Univer- 
Jity was founded the firft, or, at furtheft, 
the fecond, year after he entered on his 
reign, at which time he applied with all 
his ftrength to the reftoration of our Aca- 
demia, which a great many writers cail 
its foundation. But nothing was more 
agreeable to this King, though, from the 
very beginning of his reign, always en- 
gaged in wars with the Danes, than to re- 
vive the ftudy of letters, which lay almof 
extinguifhed among his fubjeéts, amid the 
cruel and daily ftorms of war; and that 
he might do this more conveniently, he in- 
vited round him men eminent in every 
kind of literature. He is faid to have 
ufed as preceptors and counfellors John 
Erigenas, Winifred Grimbald, Alquinus, 
Afferius of St. David’s, Dunwaphus, Ne- 
otus, to whom integrity of life, no lefs 
than eminent learning, added great cele- 
brity of name: of whom Neotus, a pro- 
feffor of the monattic religion, was a dili- 
gent adviler to the King, inclined by his 
own nature to every pious work to reftore 
the f{chools, that had fallen into ruin by the 
iniquity of the times, at the Ford of Ifis 
- (Oxford, they call it now), and to revive, 
as it were, good letters, that flourifhed 
there while the Britons reigned, to their 
ancient feat; for it may be collected from 
Original Poetry. 
[Feb. 1, 
other hiftories, as well as our own, that 
there was then at that place a {chool of 
philofcphers, not unknown to fame, fprung 
from the ancient Greek philofophers, who 
arrived at this ifland with the Trojans, 
Brutus being their leader. When he 
wifhed to fhow, that the Univerfity of Ox- 
ford was by far the moft ancient of all the 
literary inftitutions in the Chriftian World, 
he prefently, by way of proof, fubjoins 
firft che arrival of thofe very philofophers 
(Crekelodas, or more truly, Grekocolo- 
das), relating on what occafion they came 
here, and in what manner, after feeking a 
long while a commodious habitation, they 
chofz, at length, that village, Oxford ; 
adding, at the fame time, its vicinity, and 
its more agreeable fituation. Bat, in the 
mean time, he makes no mention of Al- 
fred, whom he certainly would not have 
pafled over in filence, had he been the 
firft founder of the univerfity.”’ 
JOSHUA BARNES. 
Jofhua Barnes was formerly the fenior 
fellow of Emanuel College, and Greck 
Profeflor, eminent as editor of feveral of 
the Greek Claics, and fkilful in making 
Greek verfes: Nick nacs, Epigrams, 
and Heroics, were all alike to him. “In his 
Evyeeteneiy he compliments archbifhops, 
bifhops, and the moft celebrated {chool- 
mafiers of his time. ‘“Thereare alfo fome 
manulcript verfes of bis, in Emanuel Col- 
lege library, in which he epigrammatizes 
the mafter and four fenior fellows on 
their charafters, fize, &c. The following 
is a tranflation of one, and may be taken 
as a {pecimen of the reft. 
On the lion,* that crnamented the top 
of the chapel of Emanuel College. 
Thy lion bright, with tongue of gold, 
Well-pleafed, Emanuel-Houfe, I fee, 
Iffuch a rank thy lions hold, 
What mighty things thy men muft be. 
“® The arms of the College, that were on 
the top of the old chapel. 
ORIGINAL POETRY. 
—e Sa 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N the Critical Review for December, I meet 
with a very feeble tranflation, or imitation, 
extracted from the Metrical Adfcellany, of a 
French Song, which has been much admired, 
On the Nurfing of Love, given (according to 
cuftom) as original. Thinking as the Re- 
viewer, who has deteéted the theft, that the 
read original is far fuperior, I have taken the 
ae 
liberty to fend you a copy of it, firft, corre&t, 
which is not the cafe with that given in the 
Monthly Review ; and, together with the fe- 
quel, which feems not to have been known to 
the modeft author, and recalls to mind the 
well-known ; 
Sic vos non wvobis. 
I remain, with much refpeét, your’s &c- 
Irte EGo qui QUONDAM- 
th Fan, 1803. 
spd : DL Amur 
