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At Eton I left my wife in the coach, and he and I to
the College, and there find all mighty fine. The school good,
and the custom pretty of boys cutting their names in the shuts of
the windows when they go to Cambridge, by which many a one hath
lived to see himself a Provost and Fellow, that hath his name in
the window standing. To the Hall, and there find the boys'
verses, "De Peste;" it being their custom to make verses at
Shrove-tide. I read several, and very good they were; better, I
think, than ever I made when I was a boy, and in rolls as long
and longer than the whole Hall, by much. Here is a picture of
Venice hung up, and a monument made of Sir H. Wotton's giving it
to the College. Thence to the porter's, in the absence of the
butler, and did drink of the College beer, which is very good;
and went into the back fields to see the scholars play. And so
to the chapel, and there saw, among other things, Sir H. Wotton's
stone with this Epitaph:
Hic jacet primus hujus sententiae Author:--
Disputandi pruritus fit ecclesiae scabies.


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