HE WAS NOT SKILLED IN PROSODY;

And when, in 1795, he proceeded to D.D., after being made Sub-Dean of

Lincoln, he, in the delivery of his _Clerum_, pronounced prof[)u]gus

prof[=u]gus, which gave some Cambridge wag occasion to fire at him the

following epigram:--

"Italiam fato _profugus_, Lavinaque venit

Litora; * * * * *

Errat Virgilius, forte _profugus_ erat."

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