_"Perturbabantur," &c._ (Vol. ix., p. 452.).--When I first learned to scan
verses, somewhere about thirty years ago, the lines produced by your
correspondent P. were in every child's mouth, with this story attached to
them. It was said that Oxford had received from Cambridge the first line of
the distich, with a challenge to produce a corresponding line consisting of
two words only. To this challenge Oxford replied by sending back the second
line, pointing out, at the same time, the false quantity in the word
"Constantin[)o]politani."