Scotland, pp. 211, 212; Chalmers's Life of Ruddiman, p. 98. Ker is mentioned in Johnson's Life of Milton for noticing the poet's error in the use of vapulandum.

I. DONAIDES.

Sive | Musarum Aberdonensium | De Eximia | Iacobi Fraserii, I.U.D. | In Academiam Regiam Aberdonensem munificentia, Carmen Eucharisticum.

Notis illustratum, quibus strictim perscribitur Historia Universitatis et Collegii Regii Aberdonensis, a primaevâ ipsius Institutione, ad nostra usque tempora perpetuâ serie.

Auctore Joanne Ker, Graecarum Literarum Professore in Academiâ Regiâ Aberdonensi.

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Edinburghi, in aedibus Tho. Ruddimanni, 1725.

Accipe, Fraseri, generose ac inclyte factis,

Quae tibi Donaïdes munera parva ferunt;

Munera parva quidem, nec quae tibi maxima dona
Aequent ast inopes nos humilesque decent.

Te penes argentum est, auri et tibi copia flavi;
Nosque beas dando, te simul ipse beas:

Nosque damus quae fert hortus munuscula noster,

Purpureos flores, lilia mista rosis.

1-4. Imitated from the lines by John Lundie, to Dr. John Forbes, in Forbes' Funerals,

Eia alacres hilaresque virum cantemus, amoenos
Qui nobis reddit lucos et tecta superba.
Atria Musarum studiis sacrata manebant
Exornata diu, bene sarta et tecta, perennes
Quas Elphinstonius, pietate insignis, in oris.

His aedes statuit nobis, sedemque locavit
Regali imperio, Regis de nomine dictam :

Multa ubi certatim per quaedam saecla iuventus
Exercere artes, studia et celebrare frequenti
Agmine consuevit, laetasque agitare choreas.

7. Regis de nomine dictam. "Boece states that Elphinstone 'modestiae causâ' wished his college to be called · Regale'; suggesting that it had begun to be designated popularly by the bishop's own name. The title King's College (Collegium Regale) occurs first in a deed of 1542, where the name is combined with that of St. Mary's: 'Regalis Collegii sub titulo de Nativitate beate Marie Virginis'. In 1544 the term Regale Collegium' is used without any addition (Fasti Aberd. pp. 115, 119). In 1553 the title College of St. Mary,' is found for the last time in an official designation in a papal bull” (Aberd. Quatercent. Studies, 1906, p. 9 n.). For 'Regale,' as in King's College, Cambridge, see pp. 371, 372.

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Phoebo olim hâc unâ sedes non gratior ulla,
Nec quâ formosus se plus iactaret Apollo:
Huc, latices linquens sacros, Permessidas undas,
Et iuga Parnassi, pulcherrima ad ostia Donae
Nos secum avectas subduxit, iussa secutus
Ipsa Iovis summi. Tunc talia fatus: "Arenâ
Optatâ fruimur, quas celsas cernitis arces
Sunt Elphinstonii, sublimibus alta columnis
Regia, quam vobis statuit, propriamque dicavit.
Huc nos fata vocant, has nunc migremus in aedes;
Haec iam nostra domus, nostra haec et flumina, fontes
Hi nostri, hi colles aprici et cuncta vireta."

Nec mora, laetantes properamus tendere gressus,
Patre Deo montstrante viam, sacrata subimus
Moenia, nosque novas arces et Daedala tecta
Suspicere usque iuvat; sedesque habitare beatas
Contigit, et placidâ compostas pace manere.

Iamque tuas linquunt, formosa Lutetia, turres.
Pierides; celeres formosae ad flumina Donae
Corripiunt gressus, et avent sibi ponere sedem.
Hector adest! agmen ducens celeberrimus ille
Boetius noster, comes Haius fidus Achates:
Florent tunc Musae, fulgent et nomina docta.
Prisca Caledoniae sic Gallia dona rependit,
Carolus et Magnus Scoto sua munera reddit.

31. Hector Boece, first Principal, and William Hay, Sub-Principal. For their training under Standonc at the College of Montaigu in Paris, and for the then existing educational institutions in Aberdeen, see Aberd. Quatercent. Studies, pp. 24-25. For the early privations of Standonc, cf. the experience of Cleanthes, the Stoic, in Athens (¿ øpéavtλos) under Crates (Valerius Maximus, viii. 7).

33. nomina docta. Ker gives the names of Alexander Hay, Rector (Rectorial Addresses, 1835-1900: Abdn. 1902, p. 329); James Ogilvy, first Civilist (King's Coll. Officers and Graduates, New Spald. Club, p. 31); Arthur Boece, first Canonist; John Adam, first Doctor of Divinity; John Vaus, Grammaticus (Bibliography in Aberd. Quatercent. Studies, pp. 387-389); Robert Gray, second Mediciner (King's Coll. Officers and Graduates, p. 35).

35. Alluding to the mythical foundation of the University of Paris, under Scots sent by King Achaius in 790, and the first establishment of “the auld alliance” (entente cordiale) between the two nations (Buchanan, Historia, v. 53; Marmion, iv. vii.).

The double tressure you might see

First by Achaius borne,

The thistle and the fleur-de-lys.