wishing to be made a man
so early.

Many satiric Latin poems bear his name at Eton, and he continued that
turn afterwards at Cambridge. He was remarkable for a very large head;
but it should likewise be added, there was a good deal in it.

On this head, his father used to hold forth in the country. He was,
without a figure, the head of the school, and was afterwards in the
caput at the university.

Wyndham, under Barnard, distinguished himself very early as a scholar,
and for a logical acuteness, which does not often fall to the share of
a boy. He was distinguished too both by land and by water; for while
he was amongst the most informed of his time, in school hours, in the
playing fields, on the water, with the celebrated boatman, my guinea
piper at cricket, or in rowing, he was always the foremost. He used
to boast, that he should in time be as good a boxer as his father was,
though he used to add, that never could be exactly known, as he could
not decently have a _set-to_ with him.

~81~~ Fawkener, the major, was captain of the school; and in those days
was famed for the "_suaviter in modo_," and for a turn for gallantry
with the Windsor milliners, which he pursued up the hundred steps, and
over the terrace there. As this turn frequently made him overrun the
hours of absence, on his return he was found out, and flogged the next
morning; but this abated not his zeal in the cause of gallantry, as he
held it to be, like _Ovid_, whom he was always reading, suffering in a
fair cause.

Fawkener, Everard, minor, with the same turn for pleasure as his
brother, but more open and ingenuous in his manner, more unreserved in
his behaviour, then manifested, what he has since been, the bon vivant
of every society, and was then as since, the admired companion in every
party.

Prideaux was remarkable for being the gravest boy of his time, and for
having the longest chin. Had he followed the ancient "_Sapientem pascere
Barbam_," there would in fact have been no end of it. With this turn,
however, his time was not quite thrown away, nor his gravity. In
conjunction with Dampier, Langley, and Serjeant, who were styled the
learned Cons, he composed a very long English poem, in the same metre as
the Bath Guide, and of which it was then held a favour to get a copy. He
had so much of advanced life about him, that the masters always looked
upon him as a man; and this serious manner followed him through his
pastimes. He was fond of bi