--See note to page 54.
3 _DAMES_. The appellation given to the females who keep
boarding-houses in Eton. These houses, although out of the
college walls, are subject to the surveillance of the head
master and fellows, to whom all references and complaints
are made.
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Come list', while I with con,{4} and sock{5}
And chaunt,{6} both ripe and mellow,
Tell how you knowledge stores unlock,
To make a clever fellow.{7}
For Greek and Latin, classic stuff,
Let tug muttons{8}compose it;
Give oppidans{9} but blunt{10 }enough,
What odds to them who knows it.
A dapper dog,{11} a right coolfish,{12}
Who snugly dines on pewter;
Quaffs Bulstrode ale,{13} and takes his dish.
4 CON. A con is a companion, or friend; as, "you are
cons of late."
5 SOCK signifies eating or drinking niceties; as, pastry,
jellies, Bishop, &c.
6 CHAUNT, a good song; to versify.
7 This is not intended as an imputation on the learned
fellows of Eton college, but must be taken in the vulgar
acceptation--you're a clever fellow, &c.
8 TUG MUTTONS, or Tugs, collegers, foundation scholars; an
appellation given to them by the oppidans, in derision of
the custom which has prevailed from the earliest period, and
is still continued, of living entirely on roast mutton; from
January to December no other description of meat is ever
served up at College table in the hall.
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