Headed with the verse: "Saltantes duco choreas, festivaque dico carmina."

The date may probably be ascertained by a reference to Brasenose College: "The college would doe well to make a still of his nose, it would save Whitfeild decrements for vinegar." An account of the revels at initiation of freshmen at Merton College is given in Ant. à Wood’s Life, under the year 1647.