Ralph Kettel

To make you merry, I'll tell you a story that Dr Henry Birket told us the other day at his cosen mariet's, scilicet that about 1638 or 1640, when he was of Trinity college, Dr Kettel, preaching as he was wont to do on trinity sunday, told them that they should keep their bodies chast and holy ; but said he, you fellows of the college here eat good commons, and drink good double beer, and breed seed, and that will get-out. How would the good old Dr have raunted and beat up his kettle drum, if he should have seen such luxury in the college as there is now ! Tempora mutandur (times change).