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We have also seen that Shakspere knew the device of grammatical disputation, which belonged to the upper school. Thus this exercise, and the quotation from the Prosodia both raise the suspicion that Shakspere had progressed as far as the upper school, though neither is in itself conclusive. But it is clear that Shakspere had mastered the sections of the grammar which were required in the lower school. His knowledge of the grammar alone will thus pass him through the lower school, and bespeaks the handiwork of an efficient usher, who-ever he was, Gilbert, Jenkins, or some other.
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