Deel No. 5 - Verses, 'Saturday Evening'

1 folded sheet, printed.

First verse: 'You must mind and call me early - call me early, d'ye hear? / For I in morning chapel to-morrow must appear: / 'Twill be the first on Sunday morning that ever I did keep, / Then I'll run to bed again, and try once more to sleep'. Parody of Tennyson's May Queen.

Tipped into R.1.75.

O.10a.38: 'Copy of certain papers, notices &c connected with or issued by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates in 1838'. Contains copies of all 'Attendance Sheets' issue by the Society in Feb.-Mar. 1838, as well as of four humorous poems on the subject. With notes by W. W. Rouse Ball.

C.13.60-63, 66, 75. '[Chapel lists and other ephemera relating to regulations regarding chapel attendance in Trinity College published by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates].' Collections of attendance lists, verse, notes and correspondence etc, received from various sources.

C.13.64. Forms used for non-attendance at Chapel by the Deans, pasted onto 6 pieces of cardboard.

C.13.65. Copy of the Bible with inscription on front flyleaf, 'From the Undergraduates of Trinity College to the Revr Charles Perry, M. A. as a mark of affection, and esteem for the good example which he set them, and the rest of the College by his constant attendance at Chapel'.

An account of the attempt by the Master and Seniority of Trinity to force all undergraduates to attend Chapel at least eight times a week, which led to the forming of the 'Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates' and the writing of several verses such as this, can be found in Ball, W. W. Rouse. Cambridge Papers. London: Macmillan, 1918, Chap. 4 (pp. 71-83).