When prenticed billies leave their shops.
[Edinburgh] : Published by R. Weston & Sons, 1, South College Street, and 31, Lothian Stereet, - of whom may be had the University Maga,
[1838]
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A parody, in verse, on the snowball riot at Edinburgh University, 12 Jan. 1838.
There is a quote from Horace above the text and 'Nemo me inpune lacissit' is printed at the foot of the text.
First lines read: When prenticed billies leave their shops, / And hameward haste to drink their slops.
Riots
Scotland Edinburgh.