"Epigrams on the Universities"

The following extract frown Hartshorne's *Book-rarities in the University of Cambridge* will fully answer the Query of your Norwich correspondent. After mentioning, the donation to that University, by George I., of the valuable library of Dr. Moore, Bishop of Ely, which his Majesty had purchased for 6,000 guineas, the author adds,— "When George I. sent these books to the University, he sent at the time a troop of horse to Oxford, which gave occasion to the following well-known epigram from Dr. Trapp, smart in its way, but not so clever as the answer from Sir William Browne:— "The King, observi…