The Balliol Rhymes

In 1880, seven undergraduates at Balliol College, Oxford, published a broadsheet of 40 quatrains making fun of their masters. The college suppressed it, but a few copies survived, and librarian W.G. Hiscock published the collection in 1939:

First come I. My name is Jowett.
There’s no knowledge but I know it.
I am Master of this College,
What I don’t know isn’t knowledge.

Here am I, the often sat on
Dancing don; my name is Tatton;
Like old wine in a new bottle
Is my talk on Aristotle.

I am Huxley, blond and merry,
Fond of jokes and laughter, very:
If I laughed at what was witty,
I should laugh less, which were pity.

‘Tis not by feeding tea and shrimps on
That you’d become as thin as Simpson:
You might by trying to defer
So obstinate a questioner.

Here’s the whole collection, with notes identifying the poets and their targets.