Page:Terræ-filius- or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford.djvu/242

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N o xxxv. Terv.�)lus. (for the belt lya,a are al?ays particular,) drnn?e dam. ?ation to the univerfity in a bumper, and kitl'd a poor drawer, by forcing him to drink kingG?o?o?'s health upon his knees, agai?fi his canfcience ? whic? were t?o equally heinous crimes. This ?ory xeas?mme- they could not walk the ?reets without bein? diately known in every corner of the unis?erfity, anti tickly infultcd, having continually, when the?ffvent out of doors, a mob of B?c<-Co?xs at their heals, crying, down ?ith thvm ? there ?e the rafcals, that drank d.?mnation to the ?ni?'e?y ; which continued for ?ver? days. At la?, as they were going thro' ?ll. souls Co?ege one afternoon, feveral jovial-blades,' who were fitting there over a pipe and a bottle, ] 'urn ed out of the window, and peltin them out ?J P g ? of the college with large ?ones, followed them to ? their lodgings, and ?id ?fore the houi? ?o or three '_? hou? to?et?er, crying out, ,l--n a? ?articular? F?t?c? and H?ov?$ ? and t;vcaring, that th 9' ?ould have their bkod, b,fore ?ent ? The next day the gentlemen (hearing upon what account they were thus inhumanly treated, ing confcious to them?lves' that thevalid not deftrye it) went to Dr. Dob/bn, pr$3!ent of T?vy college, who ?s at that time Pro.vice.cha?ce?or,and acquaint- ed him withthe outrage committed upon theffbythe fcho]ars, and upon what pretence; at the time time they all took an oath that none of them? nor any in their company did, at any time, dri?k damnatioa to t?e uni?'eqi?, or any words to that efl?&; and therefore demand? htisfa&ion for the affronts the r had received: but they x.vere told by that ?ortt 7 ma. gi.?rate, that, in all probability, the gentlemen were i?; liquor, '(a very e?cufible thing in the univerfity ?r they would not have been guilty of loch a p?eee of rudeherS $ and therefore it would I? hard to puni? them for it Thus were they d?niffcd without Vo?. H. C