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203 down. Johnson says that Shenstone found "delight and advantage" at Pembroke, "for he continued his name in the books ten years," though he, also, took no degree.

He studied poetry with his friend Graves, and, in 1737, he published, in Oxford, but anonymously, a small volume of "Poems on Various Occasions; Written for the Entertainment of the Author; and Printed for the Amusement of a Few Friends Prejudiced in the Author's Favour." This book, in later years, he attempted to suppress.

Shenstone is represented at Pembroke as studious, but shy and retiring; as rather unpopular than otherwise; and as being regarded as somewhat of a coxcomb by those who were not among the friends prejudiced in his favor.

Richard Graves, Poet and Naturalist, now almost, if not quite, forgotten, had a varied experience at Pembroke. He went up in 1732, Shenstone's year. He began his college career with a very sober little party of collegians, who amused themselves in the evenings by reading Greek and drinking water. In this set he remained for six months, when he joined a band of jolly, sprightly young fellows, who drank ale, smoked tobacco, sang bacchanalian catches, and, worst of all, punned, the whole evening. Naturally he sank lower in the social scale, and finally