Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . so is engaged by an old churl and his wife,mistress Avaritia, to tutor their son. The conditionsof his indenture are that he shall have bread, beer andbacon enough, lie in hempen sheets on a good mattress—to keep him from growing pursy—wait at meals,work all harvest time, be dutiful to his pupil, andreceive five marks a year and cast forlorn wardrobe that ploughmen would scarcely accept. Philomususis beneficed with a sextonship and clerkship, and thevoice that might have been
Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . so is engaged by an old churl and his wife,mistress Avaritia, to tutor their son. The conditionsof his indenture are that he shall have bread, beer andbacon enough, lie in hempen sheets on a good mattress—to keep him from growing pursy—wait at meals,work all harvest time, be dutiful to his pupil, andreceive five marks a year and cast forlorn wardrobe that ploughmen would scarcely accept. Philomususis beneficed with a sextonship and clerkship, and thevoice that might have been a poets or orators is employed, like a bellmans, m the inquiry of a strayedbeast. For my conditions, the hoydens, for wantof further rhetoric, made them but few and containedthem in these two. Dig well and Ring well; and inso doing, quoth our churchwarden, thou shaltgain not only our praise but also our com-mendations. Studioso loses his situation because his pupil isvery forward to have him gone, and complainsto his mother. Philomusus is put out of officeby a stuttering churchwarden because he neglects i^ #i.
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Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectunivers, bookyear1912
