. Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry . ke from the fire in the the scholars take their meals; their dinners every day con-sisting of mutton, except on Wednesdays, when they have roastand boiled beef. One hogshead of beer per day is allowed tothe school. The scholars give the name of dispers to their break-fasts, suppers, and luncheons. At the lower end of the hall standsa massy octagon chest of oak, furnished with a lid and padlock,into which is daily thrown all the broken meat, which is
. Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry . ke from the fire in the the scholars take their meals; their dinners every day con-sisting of mutton, except on Wednesdays, when they have roastand boiled beef. One hogshead of beer per day is allowed tothe school. The scholars give the name of dispers to their break-fasts, suppers, and luncheons. At the lower end of the hall standsa massy octagon chest of oak, furnished with a lid and padlock,into which is daily thrown all the broken meat, which is givento twenty-four poor women, eight of whom receive it day by dayin rotation. In a chamber adjoining the kitchen is one of themost singular spectacles imaginable, and which speaks forciblyto the imagination of the olden times, and their quaint modes ofadmonition. This is a memento addressed to the servants ofthe establishment, in the shape of a large painting on the wall,a hircocervus or man-animal; styled The Trusty Servant,and having its virtues explained in the following Latin andEnglish lines :— 472 VISIT TO THE TRUSTY SERVANT. Effigium SERVI si vis spectare probati, QuiSQUIS ES HJEC OCULOS PASCAT IMAGO OS QUOCUNQUE CIBO JEJUNIA SERA CONSILIUM NE FLUAT, ARCTA PREMIT : Dat PATIENTIEM ASINUS dominis jurgantibus AUREMCervus habet celeres ire, redire docet multum tot rebus onusta munditiam: DEXTERA operta fidem :Accinctus GLADIO ; CLYPEO munitus: et indeVel se, vel dominum, quo tueatur, habet. A TRUSTY SERVANTS portrait would you see,This EMBLEMATIC FIGURE well survey:The PORKERS SNOUT not nice in diet PADLOCK SHUT no secrets he ll the ASS his masters wrath will bear, SWIFTNESS IN ERRAND THE STAGGS FEET DECLARE: Loaded his LEFT HAND apt to labour saith:The VEST his neatness, OPEN HAND his with his SWORD, his SHIELD upon his arm,Himself and master he ll protect from harm.
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