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142 not unlikely that he cared a good deal how fair she was.

In "Abuse Whipt and Stript" Withers wrote of his undergraduate life: "I did as other idle freshmen do, Long for to see the Fell of Osney, too. But yet indeed may not I grieve to tell I never drank of Aristotle's well.

There having seen enough, and there withal Got some experience at the tennis-ball."

These lines might easily have been made as quickly as they could be written.

Joseph Addison, while at Queen's College, on the strength of certain clever Latin verses, obtained a "Demyship" at Magdalen in 1689, where he graduated with honors and with a reputation for eminent respectability; and where he wrote much, and began to make those rare promises of literary distinction which he was, in later life, to fulfil in so remarkable a degree.

Mr. J. Wells, in his " Oxford and Its Colleges," defines "Demies," in Waynflete's day, as "Members of the Foundation of Magdalen, who were admitted at twelve, and who received only half the allowance of a Fellow." " The Century Dictionary," in our own day, defines a "Demyship" as one of certain scholarships at Magdalen College, Oxford, namely, eight, Senior, of the annual