“Kittery and York for Shapleigh’s birth contest;
          Kittery won the prize, but York came off the best.”

[62] In Brady and Tate, “Hear, O my people.”

[63] In Brady and Tate, “instruction.”

[64] Watts, “hear.”

[65] See BOHN.

[66] The Triennial Catalogue of Harvard College was first
        printed in a pamphlet form in the year 1778.

[67] Jesse Olds, a classmate, afterwards a clergyman in a
        country town.

[68] Charles Prentiss, a member of the Junior Class when this
        was written; afterwards editor of the Rural
        Repository.—­Buckingham’s Reminiscences, Vol.  II. pp.
        273-275.

[69] William Biglow was known in college by the name of Sawney,
        and was frequently addressed by this sobriquet in after
        life, by his familiar friends.

[70] Charles Pinckney Sumner,—­afterwards a lawyer in Boston,
        and for many years Sheriff of the County of Suffolk.

[71] Theodore Dehon, afterwards a clergyman of the Episcopal
        Church, and Bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina.

[72] Thomas Mason, a member of the class after Prentiss, said
        to be the greatest wrestler that was ever in College.  He
        was settled as a clergyman at Northfield, Mass.; resigned
        his office some years after, and several times represented
        that town in the Legislature of Massachusetts.  See under
        WRESTLING-MATCH.

[73] The Columbian Centinel, published at Boston, of which
        Benjamin Russell was the editor.

[74] “Ashen,” on Ed.’s Broadside.

[75] “A pot of grease,
          A woollen fleece.”—­Ed’s Broadside.

[76] “Rook.”—­Ed.’s Broadside.  “Hook.”—­Gent.  Mag., May,
        1732.

[77] “Burrage.”—­Ed.’s Broadside.

[78] “That.”—­Ed.’s Broadside.

[79] “Beauties.”—­Ed.’s Broadside.

[80] “My.”—­Ed.’s Broadside.

[81] “I’ve” omitted in Ed.’s Broadside.

            Nay, I’ve two more
          What Matthew always wanted.—­Gent.  Mag., June, 1732.

[82] “But silly youth,
          I love the mouth.”—­Ed.’s Broadside.

[83] This stanza, although found in the London Magazine, does
        not appear in the Gentleman’s Magazine, or on the Editor’s
        Broadside.  It is probably an interpolation.

[84] “Cou’d.”—­Gent.  Mag., June, 1732.

[85] “Do it.”—­Ed.’s Broadside.

[86] “Tow’rds Cambridge I’ll get thee.”—­Ed.’s Broadside.

[87] “If, madam, you will let me.”—­Gent.  Mag., June, 1732.

[88] See COCHLEAUREATUS.