A Pembrokian Cantab, named Penlycross, having written an Essay, a
candidate for the Norrisian prize (which it was necessary he should
subscribe with a Greek or Latin motto, as well as a sealed letter,
enclosing his name, after being for a time at a loss for one,) and
having an ominous _presentiment_ of its rejection, he seized his pen
and subscribed the following on both:
"Distichon ut poscas nolente, volente, Minerva,
Mos sacer? Unde mihi distichon? En perago."
"Without a distich, vain the oration is;
Oh! for a distich! Doctor, e'en take this."
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