Readings in English social history from contemporary literature . I. 0 .7^ V 0 .^Piiniedl^y \f»^<: Iv^f^ i 6i: William Shakespeare. Cl3 tu Xi H (UO o V H ENGLAND UNDER THE TUDORS 111 and were again, only for a year or twain, in the reign ofEdward VI., revived in the cloister of Christs Hospital,when the best scholars, then still of St Anthonys School,were rewarded with bows and arrows of silver, given tothem by Sir IMartin Bowes, goldsmith. Nevertheless, however, the encouragement failed, thescholars of Pauls meeting with them of St Anthonys, wouldcall them Anthony pig


Readings in English social history from contemporary literature . I. 0 .7^ V 0 .^Piiniedl^y \f»^<: Iv^f^ i 6i: William Shakespeare. Cl3 tu Xi H (UO o V H ENGLAND UNDER THE TUDORS 111 and were again, only for a year or twain, in the reign ofEdward VI., revived in the cloister of Christs Hospital,when the best scholars, then still of St Anthonys School,were rewarded with bows and arrows of silver, given tothem by Sir IMartin Bowes, goldsmith. Nevertheless, however, the encouragement failed, thescholars of Pauls meeting with them of St Anthonys, wouldcall them Anthony pigs, and they again would call theother, Pigeons of PauVs because many pigeons werebred in St Pauls church, and St Anthony was always figuredwith a pig following liim ; and mindful of the former usage,did for a long season disorderly, in the open street, provokeone another with : Salve tu quoque, placet tibi mecumdisputare ? Placet. And so proceeding from this toquestions in grammar, they usually fell from words to blowswith their satchels full of books, many times in great heaps,that they troubled the streets and passengers ; so that finallythey were


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