[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—The verses on Jesus College (p. 441 of your last issue) appeared some thirty years ago in Lays of Modern Oxford, by " A Don," and to the best of my recollection ran thus:—
" There was a shy freshman of Jesus Whose looks were intended to freeze us; In his boots lie wore nails, And his home was in Wales, And he lived on the strong beer of Jesus."
The "Limerick" was only one of a complete set on the Colleges and Halls of Oxford. Here is another of them :- " There was a great Don of ` the House,'
A man of superior ' nous
When told he was wrong lie replied Go along I We never are wrong at the House."' "
Those of your readers, quibus aunt falia curae, ought not to MIMI the delightful collection which the Journal of Education printed in February, 1888, under the head of " Nonsense limes on the Capitals of Europe "—the fruits of a holiday prize-competition. The prize went to Mr. F. W. Bourdillon for a set of four, the fourth of which was on Hanover :-
"There was a young lady of Hanover, Who threw, just to tease, her young man over; But with heart quite unhurried He went off and married Another—which knocked her whole plan over."
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