The failure of success in the representation of this play has been
detailed in the Life of the Bishop: indeed it seems to have subjected
the Oxonians to much ridicule, which the elegant bishop King[74] joined
with Corbet in retorting. One of the numerous banters on this occasion is
recorded by Wood, and deserves to be preserved:
“At Christ-Church ‘Marriage,’ done before the king,
Lest that those mates should want an offering,
The king himself did offer—What? I pray.
He offer’d twice or thrice to go away.”