a] 
1804. ] 
«c And yet, (continues Afcham,) for all 
their open threats, the good father him(elf 
privately fecured that I fhould even then 
be chofen Fellow.’ | P 
Let the liberality of Afcham and Baker, 
who differed in fentiment fo materially 
from Dr. Metcalfe, be:conirafted with the 
meannefs of Bifhop’ Fell. We copy the 
foliowing extraét from Mr. Collins’s Dif- 
courle-of Free-thinking : 
“ The Right Rev. Bifhop Fell cor- 
rupted in many places Wood’s Hiftory and 
Antiquities of the Univerfity of Oxford, 
while it was in the prefs, and in particu- 
Jar: ftruck out feveral paflages wherein 
Wood had done juttice to Hobbes, and 
inferted others in their ftead derogatory 
to his fame and character. » Of this Mr. 
Wood himfelf acquainted Mr. Hobbes.” 
ldo not like thee, Dr. Fell— 
The reafon why thofe:lines may tell, 
T do not like thee,, Dr. Feli, 
CLX.—MR.CAMBRIDGE’S JOKE wverfified. 
Mr. O. Cambridge, whofe Works 
have been lately publifhed by his fon, can 
claim only a zominal relation to our vene- 
rable mother, for he was of the Univer- 
fity of Oxtord. But mof cf his particu- 
lar friends being of Cambridge, and he 
himf. lf foon leaving Oxtord, we have not 
ferupled to throw a good joke of his into 
very indifferent verfe, and take the liber- 
ty of prefenting it, in this form, ‘to our 
Cambridge readers. 
Mr. Cambridge, the Authar of the WorLD, 
to his Wife, who taxed him with being 
abjent at Church. 
Quoth Sylvia to her fpoufe at church one 
day, 
*€ You know, my dear, 
church to pray ; 
But you ne’er fay your prayers, nor fing a 
ftave, 
Abfent, as if you had no foul to fave; 
«* Pray hold your tongue, (quoth Atticus, 
half furl’d, ) 4 
I'm thinking, deareft, of another World.” 
CLXI. 
The following epigrams, publifhed at 
Cambridge, were written by a ftudeat of 
Trinity. 
Oz hearing that the French had melted 
down their Saints to purchafe Ariillery. 
Quoth a 
folks 
come to 
reverend prieft to a lefs rev’rend 
friend, 
«© Where at length will the crimes of thefe 
French villains end, 
Who their faints and their martyrs thus im- 
pioufly fell, 
- And convert into damnable engines of hell?” 
Cantabrigiana. 
237. 
‘¢ Prithee, why (quoth his friend,) are you 
fo much furpriz’d, 
That Saints had their deferts, and were all 
canoniz’d?”* 
i CLL 
On hearing a Gentleman whe fquinted af- 
Jert that the Prophectes were to b¢ un- 
derflood im a double fenfe. — By the 
fame. 
A double fenfe no wonder —— {pies 5 
The fault’s not in his head, but in his eyes. 
CLXIII. — ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES fuf- 
ceptible of IMPROVEMENT. 
Let no one take offence at the remark 
made in this day’s paver, that our col- 
leges rofe out of the ruins of monafteries. 
This was but -ftating an hiftorical fact, 
well known to the whole world, and intro- 
duced with all due refpeét for ihefe an- 
cient feats of literature. Monatteries 
were inftitutions well adapted to the 
times in which they were founded, and 
learning obtained refuge in them during the 
havoc of the dark ages. Our colleges, 
too, aie certainly imp:ovements oi thele 
old foundations, betier fuited to the cire 
cumilances of move enlightened periods. 
But while they are made into a fort of 
ecclefiaftical corporation ; while we retain 
graces which exclude very numerous per- 
ons from all our colleges, and deprive 
them of all academical honours; while we 
impofe laws neither congenial to tne aims 
of the original founders, to the {prrit of 
reformed fucieties, nor to the féentiments 
of the prefent age, we fall fo far below. 
ne ftandard of perfection; we retard pub- 
lic improvements ; we oppofe public li- 
berty ; nor can we offer to houles thus 
circumfcribed that nobleft of all titles, na- 
tional inflitutions. High as our colleges 
fiand in the opinion of Europe and of 
all the world m other reipects, in this 
refpect they fink very low. But we 
wifh for reform, not for defolation ; 
and hope, therefore, not to fall under 
the woe of a learned’ Doétor 3; we 
choofe rather to fay, with a father of che 
Church : Q avonro, cuuSarere eavres Evrw, 
AaCETs apemEAoy? GewToy (rey PudAopecs” Eire 
Brarog yweTet, Esta pudroY, EiTa avGoc, Kas 
META TAUTH Ompac, eiTe Capuan wapernnuicte 
Clementis ad Corinth, Ep. Ie 
CLXIV.—By @ STUDENT of JESUS COL- 
LEGE. 
From off that delicate fair cheek, 
Oh Maid, too fair, I did but feek 
To fteal a kifs, and lo! your face, 
With anger or with fhame it glows 5 
What have done, my gentle Grace, 
But change alily to arofe? 
At 
