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 being jeer'd in too free a manner by one of his plowmen, replied in a pet, ''Why, how now, irrah? methinks you have a good tock''; and o went home in the dumps: but we read of no bloodhed, nor expulion from his ervice.

Notwithtanding what ome wie heads have thought to the contrary, I cannot ee the great unreaonablenes of uch publick licences as thee at particular eaons: for why hould a poor undergraduate be called an idle racal, and a good for nothing blockhead, for being perhaps but twice at chapel in one day; or for coming into college at ten or eleven a clock at night; or for a thouand other greater trifles than thee; whilt the greyheaded doctors may indulge themelves in what debaucheries, and corruptions they pleae, with impunity, and without cenure? Methinks it could not do any great hurt to the univerities, if the old fellows were to be jobed at leat once in four or five years for their irregularities, as the young ones are every day, if they offend.

Indeed, ome of my predeceors have us'd the old gentlemen too roughly, and run their chritian patience quite out of breath. One of thee academical pickleherrings currilouly affronted the learned preident of St. John's college (in defiance of the tatute de contumeliis compecendis) by haking a box and dice in the theatre, and calling out to him by name, as he came in, in this manner, Jacta et alea, doctor, Seven's the main, in alluion to a candalous report handed about by the doctors's enemies, that he was guilty of that infamous practice, and had lot great ums of other people's money at dice; which tory all, who have the honour to be acquainted with that profound divine, know to be a mot groundles and impudent defamation.

Several uch indignities as thee having been offer'd to the grave fathers of the univerity, (the