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Ah! more I feel thy influence round, 
*Mid pathlefs rocks, and mountains rude, 
And ail yon deep opake of wood, 
And falling waters’ folemn found, vy 
Than if enfhrin’d aloft }faw thee ftand, 
Glittering in robes of gold, and thap’d by 
Phidias’ hand. 
Oh! might my prayer be heard! might J, 
Faint ev’n in youth, here fix my feat ! 
But, if too crvel Fate deny, 
In feenes fo bleft, a foft retreat 5 
Tf (till ingulpht in life’s rude waves 
‘Its boifterings I maft vainly brave, 
Oh! might | find in peaceful age 
Some corner for a hermitage: — 
here fteal from human cares and valgar 
ftrife ! . 
In freedom there enjoy the waning hour of 
life. 
CXLIV.—TRIPOS POEM 0” MAPS. 
Tn our laft number we noticed the pic- 
ture-gallery in Emanuel College. It 
would occupy too much room, and en- 
eroach too much on the original plan of 
this work, to notice all the portraits at 
Cambridge. The following, however, 
fhall be mentioned, as well on account of 
the originality of the fubjeét, as the lines 
ef the tripos poem with which it fhall be 
accompanied. 
Over the ftair-cafe, near the entrance 
of the public library, is a fine full-length 
portrait by Reinagle. The fubjeét is the 
late Mr. John Nicholfon, commonly call- 
ed Maps,* and well known in his day for 
keeping a uleful circulating library. He 
was further ufeful’ in the Univerfity, by 
furnifhing, for a. fuitable reward, lame 
poets with verfes, lame orators with de- 
clamations, and lame preachers with fer-- 
mons: thefe he ufed to fell to academics, 
who had more money than wit, having 
firft purchafed them of others, who had 
more wit than money. 
Ah ! potius tribuens tua, Maps, munufcula, 
fummus 
Prodeat oxator Cicerone difertior ipfo. 
The tripos is a paper containing the 
names of the principal graduates of the 
year. It alfo contains two. copies of 
verfes, written by two of the under-gra- 
duates, who are appointed to that employ- 
ment by the Proétors. The following are 
‘ extracted from one of thefe poems, the 
fubje&t of which is this Maps : the whole 
of the poem is very charatteriftic of the 
man, as the following extract is of the 
portrait, except that in the latter Maps is 
reprefented with the books in his hands + 
Et quamvis humeris graviter tibi Mufa, ma- 
thefis 
Incumbant, Sophizq: omni farragine preffus 
ENERGIE aes 
* From felling maps about the country, 
his former occupation, 
Cantabrigiana 
[March 1, 
Incedas, et feffa-Jabat fab pondere cervix, 
Frons eee tamen, mira eft tibi gratia ri- 
us. : 
quondam fylvas Rhodopcius Or- 
_pheus : ; : 
Immitefq: tigres et faxa fequentia duxit, 
Vox tua & noftras veniat fortafle per auress 
Te fubito petimus properi, oblitufg: laborunt 
Quifq: tibi twa facra refert et numen adorat. 
Tho? on thy fhoulders prefs the heavenly 
_-Mufe, 
And Mathematics, and the pondrous load * 
Of every fcience, till thy weary neck 
Almoft fuccumbs, ftill chearfulis thy face, 
Still in thy {mile a grace. As Orpheus once 
Led woods, and tigers, and obfequious ftones 3) 
Solet thy cheering voice but reach our eats, 
We run to greet you, and our toils forget, 
Eager to blefs, as due, thy facred powers. 
Gne fingular circumftance attending 
Maps’semployment in the Univerfity was 
this; the gownfmen and he lived in the 
exercife of conftant depredat ons on each 
other. The' fact f{eems to be, that the 
former began firlt to crib the books of the 
latter, and the latter was, therefore, com- 
pelled to make reprifals, or, otherwife, he 
mutt at length have had an empty fhop.— 
-Maps’s tricks came under the aét of fe de- 
fendendo ; fo that, though the gownimen 
were often obliged to watch him like a 
fharper, {till he was allowed, by general 
confent, to have deferved the character of 
an honeft man. 
Ee veluti 
NO. CXLV.—EXTRACT from MR. THO- 
MAS BAKER’S MS. HISTORY of ST. 
.JOHN'S COLLEGE, 7 the BRITISH 
MUSEUM. abe eh 5 €e 
In the laft month’s Magazine was in- 
ferted a letter of the late ingenious Mr. 
Peter Whalley, Editor of Ben Jonfon’s 
Works, to Dr. Rawlinfon, the antiquary. 
The following extraét, from Baker, at 
once completes his narrative, and rectifies 
a common miftake about the Rounp 
Cuurcu in Cambridge. 
‘< In his time, Hugh Balfham’s, or Hugh 
Norwold’s, (for it was dene with the con- - 
fent of Hugh, bifhop of Ely), William 
Twylet founded a chantry in St. Mary's 
chapel in St. Sepulchre’s church; the duty 
whereof was to be difcharged by a brother 
of St. John’s: for the which he gave lands 
to the houfe in the town and fields of Cam- 
bridge. The charter, being without date, 
was probably given in Hugh Norwold’s 
time, for moft of the grants or charters, un- 
der Hugh Baltham, are dated, whereas the 
older charters are without date. Wohere- 
ever we place it, St. Sepulchre’s was 
then a parifh church; and this falling in 
the period of time before the Jews were 
banithed Cambridge, (for in a tranfcript 
of a grant to Will, Twylet from the 
hofpital, 
