Classic Poem

Cambridge and Oxford

How com'st about when Sisters are coheirs
Ours hath but one but theirs hath Chancelers
Or why did fate make different in the power
Send one to'th'feild the others to the Tower
Unless the plot this double sence affords
Minervas th'one th'others for th'records
Were sent to search t'Apollo did belong
Soe that sought fame those others but a song
Yet doe I find there was in this some skill
To make th'one sister like th'two headed hill
And least the others bridg should pass the broke
Or ford the Parliment an order tooke
To keepe them safe that if the bill should bee
Passing to give the King a subsedy
Neither might suffer but preferrment find
One voated first before the last behind
Now whilst both houses to Keepe fast the praise
Belong to'th'one let t'other weare the Baies.