d. "The children shall come unto the
School in the morning at seven of the clock, both winter and
summer, and tarry there until eleven; and return against one
of the clock, and depart at five, &c. In the school, no time
in the year, they shall use tallow candle in no wise, but
_only wax candle_, at the costs of their friends. Also I
will they bring no meat nor drink, nor bottle, nor use in
the school no breakfasts, nor drinkings, in the time of
learning, in no wise, &c. I will they use no cockfightings,
nor riding about of victory, nor disputing at Saint
Bartholomew, which is but foolish babbling and loss of
time." The master is then restricted, under the penalty of
40 shillings, from granting the boys a holiday, or "remedy,"
[play-day,] as it is here called "except the King, an
Archbishop, or a Bishop, present in his own person in the
school, desire it." The studies for the lads were,
"Erasmus's Copia & Institutum Christiani Hominis (composed
at the Dean's request) Lactantius, Prudentius, Juvencus,
Proba and Sedulius, and Baptista Mantuanus, and such other
as shall be thought convenient and most to purpose unto the
true Latin speech: all barbary, all corruption, all Latin
adulterate, which ignorant blind fools brought into this
world, and with the same hath distained and poisoned the old
Latin speech, and the _veray_ Roman tongue, which in the
time of Tully and Sallust and Virgil and Terence was used--I
say that filthiness, and all such abusion, which the later
blind world brought in, which more rather may be called
_Bloterature_ that [Transcriber's Note: than] _Literature_,
I utterly banish and exclude out of this school." _Life of
Knight's Colet_, 362-4.

What was to be expected, but that boys, thus educated, would
hereafter fall victims to the BIBLIOMANIA?]

[Footnote 22: The history of this great men [Transcriber's
Note: man], and of his literary labours, is most
interesting. He was a pupil of William Lilly, the first
head-master of St. Paul's School; and, by the kindness and
liberality of a Mr. Myles, he afterwards received the
advantage of a College education, and was supplied with
money in order to travel abroad, and make such collections
as he should deem necessary for the great work which even
then seemed to