11 Land of Promise--The fair expectations of a steady novice
in Oxford.
12 Isthmus of Grace--Obtainment of the grace of one's
college.
13 Land of Incumbents--Good livings.
14 Bosky is the term used in Oxford to express the style of
being "half seas over."
15 Bishop--A good orthodox mead composed of port wine and
roasted oranges or lemons.
16 Province of Bacchus--Inebriety.
17 Maro Common and Homer Downs allude to the AEneid of
Virgil and the Iliad of Homer--two books chiefly studied for
the little-go or responsions.
18 Frisking--Hoaxing.
19 Straits of Independency--Frontiers of extravagance.
20 Waste of Ready, including in it Hoyle's Dominions--
Course of gambling, including Loo tables.
21 Dynasty of Venus--Indiscriminate love and misguided
affections.
22 Quicksands of Rustication--On which our hero may at any
time run foul when inclined to visit a new county.
~135~~ Cheer up, old fellow! you are not half way through the ceremony
of initiation yet. We must brighten up that solemn phiz of yours, and
give you a lesson or two on college principles? If I had been thrown
upon some newly-discovered country, among a race of wild Indians, I
could not have been more perplexed and confounded than I now felt
in endeavouring to rally, and appear to comprehend this peculiar
phraseology.
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