substance; he was habited in a suit of clerical
mixture, with the true orthodox hat and rosette in front, the broadness
of its brim serving to throw a fine mellow shadow over the upper part of
a countenance, which would have formed a choice study for the luxuriant
pencil of some modern Rubens; the eyes were partially obscured in the
deep recesses of an overhanging brow, and a high fat cheek, and the
whole figure brought to my recollection a representation I had somewhere
seen of Silenus reproving his Bacchanals: the picture was the more
striking by the contrasted subjects it was opposed to: on one side was
a spare-looking stripling, of about the age of eighteen, with lank hair
brushed smoothly over his forehead, and a demure, half-idiot-looking
countenance, that seemed to catch what little expression it had from the
reflection of its sire, for such I discovered was the ancient's affinity
to this cadaverous importation from North Wales. The father, a Welsh
rector of at least one hundred and fifty pounds per annum, was conveying
his eldest born to the care of the principal of Jesus, of which college
the family of the Joneses{5} had been a leading name since the time
of their great ancestor Hugh ap Price, son of Rees ap Rees, a wealthy
burgess of Brecknock, who founded this college for the sole use of the
sons of Cambria, in 1571.

5 DAVID JONES OR, WINE AND WORSTED.

Hugh Morgan, cousin of that Hugh
Whose cousin was, the Lord knows who,
Was likewise, as the story runs,
Tenth cousin of one David Jones.
David, well stored with classic knowledge,
Was sent betimes to Jesus College;
Paternal bounty left him clear
For life one hundred pounds a year;
And Jones was deem'd another Croesus
Among the Commoners of Jesus.
It boots not here to quote tradition,
In proof of David's erudition;--
He could unfold the mystery high,
Of Paulo-posts, and verbs in u;
Scan Virgil, and, in mathematics,
Prove that straight lines were not quadratics.
All Oxford hail'd the youth's _ingressus_,
And wond'ring Welshmen cried "Cot pless us!"
It happen'd that his cousin Hugh
Through Oxford pass'd, to Cambria due,
And from his erudite relation
Receiv'd a written invitation.

~117~~

Hugh to the college gate repair