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verse continues along with that of prose through the remainder of the curriculum. Here the Eton system of 156o is following exactly the same order as do Bury St. Edmund's and Harrow. By the end of the third out of five forms, the boys at these schools had completed grammar, and in the third they too studied versification, also with Ovid's Tristia as the author, just as Eton attains these objectives by the end of the fourth out of seven forms. The sequence of the lower school is thus so far the same. Eton in 156o supplements in the fourth with Martial, Catullus, or Sir Thomas More. In the fifth, it continues with Ovid's Metamorphoses and Horace; in the sixth and seventh Virgil's ileneid, Lucan and others. So Eton by 156o has substituted Ovid's Tristia in the fourth form for Virgil's Bucolics, which was used in 1530, has continued Ovid's Metamorphoses in the fifth, has brought Horace to the fifth form from the sixth, has placed Virgil's 4eneid in the sixth and seventh instead of the fifth and sixth, has added Lucan at the end, and has supplemented in the fourth with Martial, Catullus, or More. The poetic sequence has thus been begun in the fourth form with a rearrangement of authors, but the authors of the still higher forms remain almost exactly the same and come in practically the same order. The work in poetry has in this way been considerably enlarged-at least on paper.
As has been said, Bury St. Edmund's and Harrow begin their study of versification in the third form and also with Tristia as the model. But they then continue with Virgil's Bucolics in the old conventional place in_the fourth, whereas Eton had apparently dropped this work, though Winchester still retained it, and actually Eton may. Horace had come also in the fourth, and Virgil's Aeneid in the fifth. Thus they use Virgil's Bucolics instead of Ovid's Metamorphoses, but continue with Horace and Virgil's Aeneid as at Eton. So their fundamental poetic practice is almost exactly that of the Eton system. Only Eton has more time and so can supplement with other authors.
While versification had been shifted to the fourth form at Eton in 156o from the fifth, similarly, the figures of speech; that is, elocutio, or rhetoric proper, were shifted to the fifth; the whole rules sequence has been shifted down by a form. Only, the text is now Susenbrotus instead of Mosellanus as it was in 1530. Cicero's Epistles are still in the fifth as in 1530, and presumably for the same reason; that of serving as a model for epistles. At the corresponding stage, Bury St. Edmund's and Harrow had specified Erasmus, Copia and De Con-
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