But away with reveries! a fingle fad, 
well afceriained, faves trouble, and de- 
molifhes many a fyfiem of analogies. To 
the queftion, What can Trinity Audit- 
Ale mean? a-plain an{wer remains to be 
given. 
To audit is, as every body knows, to 
clofe an account; and itis equally well 
known, that the Colieges poffels through- 
out the kingdom numerous eftates, pich 
they let to different tenants. Now, when 
the tenants come to the alee. at the 
clofe of the year, to have their accounts 
audited,itiscultomary withthe fociety toin- 
vite them to dinner; and, as good eating re- 
quires & sood drinking, there is fome excellent 
ale, brewed on the octafion by Trinity-col- 
lege, hencecalled Trinity Aupir- ALE. 
Of this rare beve rage the fociety is by no 
means parfimonious. A vait quantity of 
it is brewed, and very liberal portions of 
Jt are conveyed by the fellows to their 
friends in every part of the kingdom. 
The fame of Trinity Audit-Ale is as 
far extended, as that of Cottenham-cheele, 
Who has not heard of Trinity Audit-Ale? 
a liquor more penetrating than Dorchefter 
Ale, and more fubltantial than Brown- 
STOUT, 
LIX.—-MR. KENDAL, of PETER-HOUSE. 
The following lines were written by the 
author of the lines on Garrick, in our laft 
number. They are in the fame vein as 
the former, and a continuation of the fame 
fubject. They cannot fail te pleafe many 
readers : 
A king? Aye, every incha king— 
Such Barry doth appear: 
But Garrick’s quite ancthex thing : 
He’s ew’ry inch King Lear. 
LX.—MR. CHRISTOPHER SMART, Jafe 
of PEMBROKE-HALL. 
Mr. Sinart, formerly Fellow of Pem- 
broke-hall, was a man of genius, greatly 
admired in his day at Cambridge, for his 
poetical exercifes. His Tripos Poems 
had peculiar merit, and were all account- 
ed worthy of an Englith tranflation. He 
obtained the Seatonian prize* five times, 
‘Fhe poems are charaéterized by a religi- 
ous enthufiafm quite natural to the writer, 
and are ftill further replete with the en- 
thufiafm of poetry. They are excel- 
jent of the kind. The fenfible account 
* A prize of forty pounds value, left by a 
Mr. Seaton, to be given to a Mafter of Arts, 
who writes the beft poem on a religious fuh- 
jet. The poem muft be in Englith, and the 
prize is annual. 
6 Cantabrigiana. 
[ June 1, 
of Smart’s Life, prefxed to his Poems, 
was written by Mr. Hunter, formerly fel- 
low of Sidney. 
Chriftopher was no lefs diftinguifhed 
for his Latin than his Englifh poetry. He 
put Pope’s Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day, hts 
Effay on Criticifm, and Milton’s LP’ Allegra, 
into Latin verfe. He alfo poficfled great 
wit and {prightlinefs i in converlation,which 
would readily ow off into extemporary 
verfe. The following fpondiac, on the 
three Univerfity Bedels, who all happened 
to be fat men, fs an expreffive effufion af 
this kind: 
Pinguia tergeminorum abdomina Bedel- 
lorum, 
Three Bedels found, with paunches fat 
and round. 
and equal to Jofhua Barnes’s i me hk 
ry vertion of, 
Three blue beans in a blue bladder. 
Teess 2vapeo xUGVOS EVs “US bOt zvaevenPbe 
, 
LXI.—DR. WILLIAM DELL, formerly MAS~ 
TER of GONVILE and CALUS COLLEGE. 
There is a fmall catalogue of the por- 
traits in the various libraries, lodges, and 
college halls, in Cambridge, edited by 
the prefent Mr. Kerrich,a gentleman dif- 
tinguifhed as a man of talte.. This, of 
courte, isa ufeful little guide, though it 
is become fomewhat fearce. The reader 
will find, by this catalogue, that the 
Lodge of Caius contains the portraits 
of al! the matters, from the time of the 
re-building of the college, except Dr. 
William Dell’s. Who, then, was Dr. 
Dell? And how happened it, that his 
portrait was not admitted into honourable 
iociety with the Mafters of Caius ? 
Dr. Dell was fome time Chaplain to Sir 
Thomas Fairfax’s Army, author of Ser- 
- mons and Difcourfes, in two volumes, 
preached and printed from between 1651 
and 3660. Dr. Calamy fays of him, that 
he was a ‘* very peculiar and unfettled 
man, challenged fer three contradictions : - 
1. For being againft Infant-baptifm, and 
‘yet having hie own children baptized ; 
2. for preaching againft univerfities, when 
he held the headfhip of a college; 3. for 
being againft tithes, yet taking 200]. per 
annum, “at his living at Yildea, in Bed- 
fordfhire.”’ - 
' Dr. Dell was an enemy to the Prefby- 
terians: we are not, therefore, to look for 
the moft favourable account of him from 
one of that party. From his difcourfes, 
it appears, that he was no friend even to 
univerfities, at lealt, as then conftituted 5 
and that he was the firft perfon in 
this. 
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