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* D'Ewes, p. 444. Si rixa est, ubi tu pulsus, ego vapulo tantum. Juv. * See note EE, at the end of the volume. See the statutes under the head of Purveyance. In so great awe did the commons stand of every courtier, as well as of the crown, that they durst use no freedom of speech which they thought would give the least offence to any of them. * D'Ewes, p. 432, 433.
I learnt the same lesson at Eton, but alas! by conjugating not pulso but vapulo. As I have intimated, I think that his conscience must have rather exaggerated his sins of submission; though I also cannot doubt that there was some ground for his self-humiliation. In any case, he atoned for it fully. I must add that he learnt another lesson, which, after his fashion, he refrains from avowing.
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