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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2010
The classical muse has by the local custom of the University been in times past much called upon; as certain thick folios in College libraries testify. These volumes contain the Gratulationes Academiœ offered to Royalty and illustrious Personages, Carmina Parentalia, Epicedia, Threnodia, Comitia Philologica, composed in every species of metre and in every one of the learned languages, for the celebration of interesting events: and we may add that for authors these productions of the muse boast of men since distinguished in the several walks of science and literature.
One of these poetical scribes thus speaks for himself:
“Had the honour to shew unto her Majesty, when Lady Anne, ye Publick University of Cambridge; ye honour of her surprising conversation for near an hour, and upon her happy nuptials appear'd in three languages among the Cambridge verses, (al) so prepared a magnificent Opera, still by me, to adorne ye same.
Carmen amat quisquis carmine digna fuit.
So writes Joshua Barnes to the Duke of Marlborough.
“When any member of a College dies within the walls it is customary for some scholars to write verses and pin them (with their own hands, on the morning of the funeral) on the pall, like escocheons.”
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