A Heavy Weight
MR. DOUGLAS, son of the Bishop of Salisbury, was six feet two inches in
height, and of enormous bulk. The little boys of Oxford always gathered
about him when he went into the streets, to look up at his towering
bulk. Get out of my way, you little scamps, he used to cry, or I
will roll upon you. It was upon this gentleman that Canning composed
the following epigram:--
That the stones of our chapel are both black and white,
Is most undeniably true;
But, as Douglas walks o'er them both morning and night,
It's a wonder they're not black and blue.