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Updated: May 22, 2025
The office of whipping-boy doomed its unfortunate occupant to undergo all the corporeal punishment which the Lord's Anointed, whose proper person was of course sacred, might chance to incur, in the course of travelling through his grammar and prosody.
They might never sit without permission in the presence of their parents or teachers, and they were beaten for the slightest offences. Don't you remember that even poor Lady Jane Grey was punished with 'nips, bobs, and pinches'; and little Edward VI had his whipping-boy, to receive the blows which it was not considered seemly to bestow upon his own princely person!"
However, he had a private hour with his whipping-boy which he counted clear gain, since he got both entertainment and needful information out of it.
Tom sat still and contemplated him soberly a moment. Then he said "Rise, lad. Who art thou. What wouldst have?" The boy rose, and stood at graceful ease, but with an aspect of concern in his face. He said "Of a surety thou must remember me, my lord. I am thy whipping-boy." "My WHIPPING-boy?" "The same, your Grace. I am Humphrey Humphrey Marlow."
He is cut by the higher orders, and hissed by the lower. He is, in truth, a sort of whipping-boy, by whose vicarious agonies all the other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of morals established in England, with the Parisian laxity.
Under the stern rule, indeed, of George Buchanan, who did not approve of the vicarious mode of punishment, James bore the penance of his own faults, and Mungo Malagrowther enjoyed a sinecure; but James's other pedagogue, Master Patrick Young, went more ceremoniously to work, and appalled the very soul of the youthful king by the floggings which he bestowed on the whipping-boy, when the royal task was not suitably performed.
Now that omnibus would halt at the corner of Westbourne Terrace in vain, and go on its way Bankwards without him. He was many miles away in the very last place where anyone would be likely to look for him, occupying the post of "whipping-boy" to his miserable son! Was ever an inoffensive and respectable gentleman placed in a more false and ridiculous position?
"Nay, that I know not," I answered; "but yet I am indeed no more than your arrow-butts, your target of practice, your whipping-boy, to be slung at and arrow-drilled and bullet-pitted at your pleasure!" "I dare say," she said, bitterly; "and all the time you go scathless no more heart-stricken than if summer flies lighted on thee.
"My back is my bread, O my gracious liege! if it go idle, I starve. An' thou cease from study mine office is gone thou'lt need no whipping-boy. Do not turn me away!" Tom was touched with this pathetic distress. He said, with a right royal burst of generosity "Discomfort thyself no further, lad. Thine office shall be permanent in thee and thy line for ever."
Once upon a time there was a little Power, the half-bankrupt wreck of a once great empire, that lost its temper with England, the whipping-boy of all the world, and behaved, as every one knows, most scandalously. But it is not generally known that that Power fought a pitched battle with England and won a glorious victory. The trouble began with the people.
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