StNicholas [serial] . peril thatsummoned it. Strengthened and clenched bya hundred attacks and dangers, his religioncould not but be earnest, deep-seated, andvital. He had a fine spirit, the Elizabethan boy,a somewhat turbulent one, if the truth be told,when he was not allowed to work it off fight-ing and privateering, but was kept to his bookat the university. One hears with pain thathe and his fellows there ruffle and roist itout, and for excuse, when they are chargedwith breach of all good order, thinke it suffi-cient to saie that they be gentlemens sonnes,which greeveth manie. The spirit o
StNicholas [serial] . peril thatsummoned it. Strengthened and clenched bya hundred attacks and dangers, his religioncould not but be earnest, deep-seated, andvital. He had a fine spirit, the Elizabethan boy,a somewhat turbulent one, if the truth be told,when he was not allowed to work it off fight-ing and privateering, but was kept to his bookat the university. One hears with pain thathe and his fellows there ruffle and roist itout, and for excuse, when they are chargedwith breach of all good order, thinke it suffi-cient to saie that they be gentlemens sonnes,which greeveth manie. The spirit of thepeople was as high, and Rathgeb says the i goo.] ELIZABETHAN BOYS. 205 street boys and apprentices collect together inimmense crowds, and strike to the right andleft unmercifully, without regard to tells us how one Shrove Tuesday for most offenses then and later, and Businosaw a lad of fifteen led to execution for steal-ing a bag of currants. One wonders aboutthe very many young boys who should have. THE DEATH OF SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE. COMMANDER OF THE REVENGE. many disordered persons of sundry kindes,amongst whom were very many young boysand lads, assembled themselves, and didmany riotous acts, and even despitefullyused and resisted the Sheriffes of were not over-gentle authorities thatwere so defied. The gallows was the penalty been safe at home at their ages instead oftrifling with death in that fashion. One would like to know what kind of homesthey had in that crowded, bustling little Londonof scarce one hundred and fifty thousand in-habitants, and why their fathers and mothersdid nt keep them out of riots. It seems as 206 ELIZABETHAN BOYS. if Canon Harrison was right when he blamedtheir lack of discipline. Shakspere gives these boys a mention or two :these were the youths that thunder at a play-house, and fight for bitten apples ; these thelads that, when street fights took place werelikely to be found throwing pebbles at theirquarrelsome eld
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