EPULAE OXONIENSES. Or a Jocular Relation of a BANQUET Presented to the Best of Kings, by the best of Prelates, in the Year 1636, In the Mathematic Library at St. john Baptists College.  
The Song.  


I.  
IT was (my Staff upon't) in Thirty Six,  
Before the Notes were wrote on Great Don Quix  
That this huge Feast was made by that High Priest,  
Who did Caress the Royalist of Guests.  
Oves and Boves, yes and Aves too  
Pisces, and what the whole Creation knew.   

II.  
For every Creature there was Richly dressed,  
As numerous as was great Nevil's Feast,  
Here we crave leave only to make you smile  
(For in the Term we must be grave a while)  
At the Exhibit of a Banquet brought  
Where all our Gownsmen, were in Marchpane wrought.   

III.  
The Ladies watered ('bout the Mouth) to see  
And taste so sweet an University.  
In mighty Chargers of most Formal Past  
A Convocation on the Board was placed:  
In Capp and Hood and Narrow-sleeved Gown  
Just as you see them now about the Town:   

IU.  
With this Conceited Difference alone,  
The Scholars now do Walk but then did Run  
There might you see in Honour of his place  
Mr. Vicechancellor with every Mace.  
The greater Staffs in Thumping Marchpane made  
In smaller, the small Stick of the small Blade.   

V.  
And after these, as if my brethren's Call  
Had fetch't them up, (Sol, Hal, & stout Wil: Ball)  
In humble postures of a Bowing Leg,  
Appeared the Doctors, Masters, Reg. non Reg.  
Then in a Mass a sort of Various Caps,  
(But could not Hum, for sealed were their Chaps)   

VI  
Crowded the Senate, as if they'd mind to hear  
Some speech, or fall upon Themselves the Cheer,  
It put their Majesties unto the Laugh,  
To see the Bedels' resign up every Staff,  
And were eat up, not as it used to be  
Returned by his Gracious Majesty.   

VII.  
I think that jeffry waiting on the Queen.  
Devoured at one Champ the Verger clean.  
But then (O rude!) as at a Proctor's Choice  
In run the Masters, just like little Boys.  
So did the Ladies, and their Servants fall,  
Upon the Marchpane-shew, Doctors and all.   

VIII.  
The Noble Men like to Clarissimos,  
Grandees of Venice, did adorn these shows  
In Velvet round Caps some, and some in Square,  
(A spectacle most excellent and rare)  
But their good Ladyships most courteously  
Simpered, and eat the Soft Nobility.   

IX.  
Never was Oxford in such woeful Case,  
Unless when Pembroke did expound the place:  
Here lay a Doctors Scarlet, there a Hood  
Trod under foot, which others snatched for Food  
Capp, Gowns, and all Formalities were Rend,  
As if the show had been i'th' Schools at Lent.   

CHORUS.  
If in the Trojan Horse enclosed were  
Men of the Helmet, Target, Sword and Spear,  
If by Ingenious Pencil ere was cut  
The Learned Homer's Illiads in a Nut,  
Why in a Bisk or Marchpane Oleo  
Might not a Convocation be a show.  
Where for to please the Beauteous Lady's Bellies,  
Masters were set in past, Scholars in jellies.   
Ed. Gayton.   

It was (my Staff upon't) in Thirty Six, Before the Notes were wrote on Great Don Quix That this huge Feast was made by that High Priest, who did caress the Royalist of Guests, Oves and Boves, yes and Aves too, Pisces, and what the wholeCreation knew.  
3. Voc. The Chorus at last. If in the Trojan Horse enclosed were, Men of the Helmet, Target, If by In— genius Pencil ere was cut, The Learned Homer's Illiads If in the Trojan Horse enclosed were, Men of the Helmet, Target If by In— genius Pencil ere was cut, The Learned Homer's Illiads If in the Trojan Horse enclosed were, Men of the Helmet, Target, If by In— genius Pencil ere was cut, The Learned Homer's Illiads Sword and Spear: Why in a Bisk of Marchpane Oleo in a Nut. Sword and Spear. Why in a Bisk of Marchpane Oleo in a Nut. Sword and Spear: Why in a Bisk of Marchpane Oleo in a Nut. Might not a Convocation be a show, Where for to please the beauteous Might not a Convocation be a show, Where for to please the beauteous Might not a Convocation be a show, Where for to please the beauteous Lady's Bellies, Masters were set in Past, Scholars in Jellies. Lady's Bellies, Masters were set in Past, Scholars in Jellies. Lady's Bellies, Masters were set in Past, Scholars in Jellies.