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They took therefore, heretofore, a very good method to prevent Sizars overheating their brains. Bed-making, chamber-sweeping, and water-fetching were doubtless great preservatives against too much vain philosophy. Now certainly such pretended favours and kindnesses as these, are the most right down discourtesies in the World.
And this poverty they could not hide, for the sizars were obliged to wear a different cap and gown from that of the gentlemen commoners. But of how Spenser fared at college we know nothing, except that he was often ill and that he made two lifelong friends.
"Oh, that's for the sizars," tittered the feeble-minded Boodle, who tittered at everything. "S-s-sizars!" stammered Lord Fitzurse. "What's that mean? Are they v-v-very big f-f-fellows?" "Ha! ha! ha!" said Bruce. "No; they're sons of gyps and that kind of thing, who feed on the semese fragments of the high table." "They must be g-g-ghouls!" said his lordship, shudderingly.
De Vayne walked into the noblemen's seats, and Julian, hot and angry, and with the words, "Scorn! to be scorned by one that I scorn," still ringing in his ears, strode up the whole length of the chapel to the obscure corner set apart is it not very needlessly set apart? for the sizars' use. Saint Werner's chapel on a Sunday evening is a moving sight.
"Hush," said D'Acres, who was a thorough gentleman, "some of the sizars may be here;" and he dropped Bruce's arm. "Pooh! they'll feel flattered," said Bruce carelessly, as D'Acres walked off. "Indeed!" said Julian, striding indignantly forward, for the conversation was so loud that he had heard every word of it.
'And his son, returned the first don, 'only keeps company with sizars, I believe. 'So then, said I to myself, 'to deserve the praise even of clever men, one must have good wines, know plenty of earls, and for swear sizars. Nothing could be truer than my conclusion. "Anecdote the second is this: On the day I gained a high university prize I invited my friends to dine with me.
Many are thus brought up at Cambridge who have no means of their own; and I think I may say that the consideration in which they are held among their brother students is in no degree affected by their position. I doubt whether we can say so much of the Sizars and Bible clerks at our universities.
As there was plenty of time, he took a stroll or two across the court before going in. While doing so, he met De Vayne, and in his company suddenly found himself vis-a-vis with his old enemy Brogten. "Hm!" whispered Brogten to his companion; "the sizars are getting on. A sizar and a viscount arm-in-arm!"
There was one respect in which he found this a very material addition to his comfort and happiness. As the sizars dined an hour later than the other men, and at a separate table, he had been by this means cut off from the society of many of his friends in hall, where men have more opportunities of meeting and becoming intimate than anywhere else.
Every college contained some of them, but their headquarters were at Caius, whither they were attracted by Mr Clayton who was at that time senior tutor, and among the sizars of St John's.
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