To _Haddington_ then let me stray,
And take _Joe Pullen's tree_ away,
I'll ne'er complain of Phoebus;
But while he scorches up the grass,
I'll fill a bumper to my lass,
And toast her in a rebus.
[9] Churton says, in his Lives of the Founders of Brazenose
College, Oxford, that "Manciples, the purveyors general of
Colleges and Halls, were formerly men of so much consequence,
that, to check their ambition, it was ordered by an express
statute, that no Manciple should be Principal of a Hall."