fenestris.
spectando gaudent cives: academica pubes
palatur passim plateis aut ordine facto
proruit ignavum cives pecus: omnia late
laetitia magni praesentia Principis implet.
Metropolitanae custos, Robertule, pacis,
tu quoque laetus ades, nec dedignaris amice
inter ridentem comis ridere popellum.
ecce tamen Furiae Martini desuper arce
dant belli signum: ruit undique vulgus ad arma:
procuratores obsistunt subgraduatis,
civibus iratis obsistunt subgraduati
et cives illis: pacis custodibus, omnes.
turba venit diris ultrix accincta bacillis:
Metropolitani vecti per strata caballis
proturbant cunctos, reliquos in carcere claudunt.
Consiliarius en! Urbanus in occiput ipse
percutitur nec scit quisnam cere comminuat brum:
namque negant omnes, et adhuc sub judice lis est.
quid Medicina viris jurisve peritia prodest,
jurisconsultos dubio si jure coercent
vincula, nec proprios arcet Medicina bacillos?
heu pietas, heu prisca fides! neglectus alumnus
Tutorem in vacua tristis desiderat aula:
interea Tutor sub judice municipali
litigat, et jurat nil se fecisse nefandum,
obtestans divos: nec creditur obtestanti.
quid referam versos equites iterumque reversos
subgraduatorum pellentes agmina ferro,
inque pavimentis equitantes undique turmas?
proh pudor! o mores, o tempora! forsitan olim
exercens operam curvo Moderator aratro
inveniet mixtis capitum fragmenta galeris
relliquias pugnae, et mentem mortalia tangent.
me sacer Aegidius Musarum fana colentem
aegide defendit, perque ignea tela, per hostes
incolumem vexitque tuens rursusque revexit.

MUSICAL DEGREES

Too oft there grows a painful thorn the floweret's stalk upon:
Behind each cupboard's gilded doors there lurks a Skeleton:
The crumpled roseleaf mocks repose, beneath the bed of down:
In proof of which attend the tale of Bach Beethoven Brown.

Beethoven Brown could play and sing before he learnt to crawl:
Piano, bones, or ophicleide--he played upon them all!
Some talk of Paderewski, or of Dr Joachim--
These artists meritorious are, but can't compare with him.

No faults or errors technical his Symphonies deface:
He calculates in counterpoint, he thinks in thoroughbass:
Composers of celebrity--musicians of renown--
Confess that they're inferior far to Bach Beethoven Brown.

As conquerors, their triumphs won, new fields before them see,
So Mr Brown resolved t