Note 300 — W. CAREW HAZLITT. (continued 5)

Terms current in the universities for different portions of bread and beer.—Steevens. In the character of an old college butler by Dr Earle (Microcosmographie, 1628), it is said: “He domineers over freshmen, when they first come to the hatch, and puzzles them with strange language of cues and cees, and some broken Latin, which he has learnt at his term.”—Note in edit. 1825.