Page:Terræ-filius- or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford.djvu/37

 NUMB. I.

Fœnum habeo in Cornu.

, January 11. 1721.

and ,

t it o long ince I had the honour of your company at the theatre at Oxford, that I am afraid, according to the cutom on the world, you have almot forgot your old acquaintance: I will therefore, firt of all, put you in mind of who I am, and for what reaons I have been thus long ilent.

It has, till of late, been a cutom, from time immemorial, for one of our family to mount the Rotrum at Oxford at certain eaons, and divert