Round the fountain.

Date:
1909
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Round the fountain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE LAY OF THE PRIMARY FELLOWSHIP. Bill Savory of Bartholomew’s, By Scarpa’s scalp he swore— Of five and twenty candidates 1 will pluck twenty-four ; By Galen’s soul he swore it, And set aside a day, When men should come from every town. And, having paid their five quid down, Be plucked, and go away. Lane of St, Mary’s Hospital, To Savory quoth he— Lo ! I will stand at thy right hand And spin the men with thee. Then out spake Dicky Partridge, From King’s, I ween, came he— I will abide at thy left side And plough the men with thee. Bright was the first of April, E’en Lincoln’s Inn looked gay. And rosy Phoebus shone to greet The groups of students in the street; It was an All Fools’ day. Dixon, Benson, Ilott too. With many others stood. And chattered gaily of the glands. And nerves supplied to feet and hands. And of the salts of blood.