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for searching only. THE ETON SYSTEM UNDER QUEEN ELIZABETH 355
From which lectures the boys excerpt flowers, phrases, or locutions of speaking; likewise antithets, epithets, synonyms, proverbs, similitudes, comparisons, histories, descriptions of time, place, persons, fables, merry jests, schemes, and apothegms.1¬
On the same days the usher reads
3rd Terence.''
To form 2nd Terence also .¬
1st Vives."
On Wednesday and Thursday the master reads
4th Ovid, De Tristibus.u
5th Ovid, Metamorphoses.l6
6th{Virgil 1s
On the same days the usher reads
3rd Cicero's Epistles selected by Sturm.
end Lucian's Dialogues.17
1st Ludovicus Vives"
At nine, when [the master and usher] have read, they go out of school."
TEN O'CLOCK
The prepositor of school cries, "Rise for prayers."
These standing erectly from both parts of the school follow the words, someone designated at the discretion of the prepositor Ieading.
[ELEVEN O'CLOCK]
Thence two by two in a long row they all proceed into hall. Dinner finished, they return to school in the same way they left 2¬
mention De Officiis at all; Westminster revised inserts it for the fourth on Tuesday and Thursday. It would seem clear that it was not in the Eton curriculum of c. i 56o, but was later added in the sixth and seventh forms at Eton, in the fourth at Westminster.
"This paragraph is placed after the complete instructions for the first four days by the Westminster copies. Baker's transcript of the Eton statutes (Creasy) moves it down one section, placing it after the instructions for the usher on Monday and Tuesday. It was probably an insertion upon the Eton statutes, and so was differently placed by different transcribers. Westminster has given it its logical position. 11 Westminster copies add Sallust.
It Westminster revised adds "or Aesops Fables."
t+ Westminster revised adds "or Cato." The copy at Ruthin about 1574 shows that the Vives is /Id Sapieniiam Iniraductie.
14 Westminster revised adds "Cicero an Duty, and Lucian's Dialogues in Greek." u Westminster revised adds, "or Plutarch in Greek."
1e Westminster revised adds, "and Homer."
17 Westminster 1568 adds, "the Colloquies of Erasmus." Westminster revised then substitutes "Sacred Dialogues" for Lucian.
to Westminster revised adds, "Corderius' Dialogues, or Boys' Talks."
17 At Westminster, the master and usher probably were never both out at the same time, as at Eton. Westminster 1568 and revision add here, "At g, when they have read the lesson to their forms, an interval should be given to the pupils to think over the lessons."
sa The afternoon routine at Westminster in the revised curriculum begins an hour later in each can than at Eton or at Westminster itself in 1568. In some instances, the necessary trans-positions have not been made in the Westminster revision.
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