1803. } 
that name mentioned in our laft, was a 
“Camb.uige man. Hence the propriety af 
this article in our Cantabrigtana. / 
: : 
i LVI ee ae 4CKHOUSE,. 
A F+ low of a Colleze, whofe name 
was Beckhoule (founded Bacchus), un- 
fortunately, once found -a young gentle- 
man on his faircafe, {prawling at full 
Jenoth, being fuller. of the juice of the 
vine, than young gentlemen ought to be, 
Backhoule took hold ef him, and haul- 
ing him along fomewhat coarfely began 
to expoiulate with him. The youth 
was thus brought to his recelleétion, when, 
on rubbing his eyes, and feeling Back- 
houfe drag him down ftairs, he exclaimed, 
Quo me, Bacche, rapis, tui 
Plenum ? Hor. 
LYII.—-THE PEPYSiAN LIBRARY, MAG- 
DALEN COLLEGE. 
‘This colle€tion was made by a gentle- 
man, who was among the firft coliectors 
of rare books in this country, Samuel 
Pepys, Efq. Secretary of the Admiralty, 
in the reigas of Charles II. and James Lf. 
He died in 1702, and bequeathed his col- 
lection to Magdalen College, where, ac- 
cording to his will, a new building was 
erected to receive them. 
Among many other valuable articles 
here, may be reckoned the following : 
fome cheite prints, the moft curious of 
which are the twelve Czefars and their 
wives, taken from an original painting by 
Titian ; fac-fimiles of the hand-writing 
of diftinguifhed perfons, » ho correfponded 
with Mr. Pepys, and various fragments 
of handwriting of different perfons, for 
feyeral hundred years back;  var-ous 
MSS. of Mr. Pepys’s writing, relating 
principally to the maritime affairs of 
Scotland ; a collection of old Englifh 
ballads, to the amount of 2000, in five fo- 
lio volumes, begun by Mr. Selden, finifh- 
ed by Mr. Pepys, and brought down to 
the year 1700 3 two volumes of Scot- 
~ 3th poetry, one in folio, the other in quarto, 
called the Maitland Collections, the for- 
mer in the hand-writing of Sir Richard 
Maitland, the latter of Mifs Mary Mait- 
land, a daughter of Sir Richard’s. The 
folio was begun in 1555, and finifhed in 
17585; the quarto was begun in 1585, 
and completed in 1587. It comprehends 
Poems written from about 1420 to 1586. 
From the colle&tion ef old Englith bal- 
lads, Bifhop Percy enriched his three 
volumes of Ancient Englifh Poetry ; and 
from the Maitland collection, Mr. Pinker- 
ton entirely compofed his two volumes of 
Cantabrigiana, 
4.2.5 
Ancient Scotifi Poems. The latter gen- 
tleman, who diligently examined this li- 
brary, and who is competent to eltimate 
its value, fays of it, {peaking in reference 
to old Englifh books, ** that it is un- 
doubtedly the moft curious in England, 
thofe of the Britifh Mufeum excepted. 
LViIL.—=-TRI NITY AUDIT-ALE. 
A perfon more ditinguifhed for drinking 
copioufly of the liquor of Helicon, than of 
the fermentations of Sir John Barleycorn, 
was extremely difgufted, on hearing men- 
tion made of Trinity Audit-Ale, Odious ! 
exclaimed the learned gentleman, can any 
affociations be more offenfive than a 
literary fociety and a brewery? What 
can Trinity Audit-Ale mean? A per- 
fon in company, accuftomed to feel about 
for analogies, began to fet his wits at 
work, to trace the connection, and, if ne- 
ceflary, to frame an apology for Trinity 
Audit-Ale. He proceeded thus: Have 
not the Mufes in all ages had their fa- 
vourite beverage, their water of Helicon, 
their fountain of Aganippe, their Pega~ 
fean ftreams, their Fons Caballinus? And 
why may not a learned fociety have its 
ale? Have not Poets, however, inallages, 
and in all countries, celebrated Bacchus, 
the genialis confitor uva, the planter of 
the genial vine? And why thould not a 
learned “fociety afcribe due honours to Sir 
Jobn Barleycorn! Ale, thought he again, 
is a kind of compromife between wine 
and water. Poets and men of fancy are 
fond of wine, mathematicians and men of 
profundity, drink water. Ale isa kind 
of link between both, where men of fan- 
cy and men of profundity may all unite. 
Then again, has not every country, almoft, 
its favourite liquor? Hence the Spartan 
bro.h; the French foup; Germans havetheir 
mum ; the Dutch love the Juniper-berry, 
the Scotch and theIrifh are attached to whif- 
key. Why fhould nota learned feciety have 
its ale? Nay, have not pecple of diffe- 
rent profeflions their appropriate liquors? 
Phyficians love port ; failors punch and 
grog; lawyers coffee; and, to afcend as 
high as poflibie, have not the gods their 
nectar? The clergy—here he was re- 
minded of Pope’s line in the Prologue te 
the Dunciad, ; 
¢Is there a parfon much bemus’d with beer?” 
and had a wicked notion come into his 
head, which, Iam fue, is not true, but for 
which Mr. Poreis to be blamed,viz. that ale 
was always the favourite beverage of the 
clergy. a 
But 
