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TO THE MASTER OF BALLIOL

i

Dear Master in our classic town,

You, loved by all the younger gown
There at Balliol,
Lay your Plato for one minute down,

ii

And read a Grecian tale re-told,

Which, cast in later Grecian mould,
Quintus Calaber
Somewhat lazily handled of old;