Cease, ye Etonians! and no more
With rival wits contend:
Feathers, we know, will float in air,
And bubbles will ascend.

[This appeared in the Eton school magazine called The Microcosm (Hook was then a boy at Harrow), in reply to the following epigram by the Eton boy George Canning, "On a Caricature representing Three Harrow Boys in a Pair of Scales, Outweighing Three Etonians" | What mean ye by this print so rare, Ye wits, of Eton jealous, But that we soar aloft in air, While ye are heavy fellows?]