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Printed, says the Oxford Sausage, “from the original MSS. preserved in the ARCHIVES of the Jelly-bag Society,” is somewhere said to have been written by Dr. Ralph Bathurst, when an Oxford scholar:—

One day in Christ-church meadows walking, Of poetry and such things talking, Says Ralph, a merry wag, An EPIGRAM, if right and good, In all its circumstances should Be like a JELLY-BAG. Your simile, I own, is new, But how dost make it out? quoth Hugh. Quoth Ralph, I’ll tell you, friend: Make it at top both wide and fit To hold a budget full of wit, And point it at the end.