Oh! For a Distich
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.”