f 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 cockfighting, 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_ et _Institutum
Christiani Hominii_ (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 than LITERATURE, I utterly banish and
exclude out of THIS SCHOOL." Knight's _Life of Colet_, 362,
4. The sagacious reader will naturally enough conclude that
boys, thus educated, would, afterwards, of necessity, fall
victims to the ravages of the BIBLIOMANIA!]

[Footnote 295: I wish it were in my power to come forward
with any stronger degree of probability than the exhibition
of the subjoined cut, of what might have been the interior
of _Dean Colet's Study_. This print is taken from an old
work, printed in the early part of the sixteenth century,
and republished in a book of Alciatus's emblems, translated
from the Latin into Italian, A.D. 1549, 8vo. There is an air
of truth about it; but the frame work is entirely modern,
and perhaps not in the purest taste. It may turn out that
this interior view of a private library is somewhat too