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Or, Never a Barrel the Better Herring / O Cambridge, attend / To the Satire I've penned / On the Heads of thy Houses, / Thou Seat of the Muses!
Know the Master of Jesus / Does hugely displease us; / The Master of Maudlin / In the same dirt is dawdling; / The Master of Sidney / Is of the same kidney; / The Master of Trinity / To him bears affinity; / As the Master of Keys / Is as like as two peas, / So the Master of Queen's / Is as like as two beans; / The Master of King's / Copies them in all things; / The Master of Catherine / Takes them all for his pattern; / The Master of Clare / Hits them all to a hair; / The Master of Christ / By the rest is enticed; / But the Master of Emmanuel / Follows them like a spaniel; / The Master of Benet / Is of the like tenet; / The Master of Pembroke / Has from them his system took; / The Master of Peter's / Has all the same features; / The Master of St. John's / Like the rest of the Dons.