The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-01-30

- me % wars, TO try their fortunes
mere
C.ne TO DISC 1ver islands far away,
Some 10 the studious universities
Tnpsa were come OF the manifest dPs
.inie4 of thf E zAbethan boy, writes l.
u SturtevsnU IN the January So
N,cnsIas. WHAT sort of Lad he was
,,bo waited impstiently for the
.ius to c me when he, too, should go
ont ln,o the world and try his fortune.
= not so easy TO fad out. E zlbethan
chr rpicIers do not waste their time
IN taking OF childrenI Even H4rri
,o1 who writes at length Of nos
tbings. from me Hl2h Courts of ParIla
mepU 10 the bre wing Of beer, scarcely
mentions COY 8 and girls. h might SO
easily nave gwen US a chaJCy chapter
m tn, m suu he so evidently thinks It
not 40 b wDIle, for he pads" his
bo7k NJ , AMI then wi b far less inter
estins matter
Il. does complain that the poorer
sort IF women do not suh GENTLY cor
rect tneIr children, "~herein their
husbands are also to be blamed" says
sbe Old canon. very fairly, and by
means whereof very mamie OF them
doc of5enCImes come to con-
fusion which might have
proved good members Of their com
mon Realsne aud countrie Thissam
HARRISON whipped his " children
conscIentiously until his mastIf
aessa.es 60 catch the rod in his teeth
for the preventing of further punish
mant. which, in his masters opinion,
is not un RorthIe TO be noted"
That kindly mastlf should be known
and remembered of all children, though
she years ba so many since, moved by
his oIg, loving heart, be interceded for
the iIglle II srrIsons.
Ger Amy lack of discipline was not
4iarIag OF tue sixteenth century, and
We kpo tn U children were brought
ID au-Uerely and made to study hard,
whether Gney had tutors at home or
were sent co the excellent grammar
s3hool7 o. the time, where such a
| IIsnCI5, Of L tito vas crammed into
them for tney profised much and
we're Ua;ked off TO the universities
early Ind ed as we snail see
They we're Carefully trained in al
courtesy of speech and hearing, but re
pressed AMI keO5 in the background In
a way hat would be little relIshed bJ
boys OF today. They were advised t.
be ''cnecksd for silence, but
taxed for Speech" or, as Sir Henry
Sidney puts &c IN a very noble letter to
bic s1n PnInp then twelve years old
rather % reouked of light fellows tor
mai en- like shamefacedness, than o
your sad friends for pert boldness TIL
no untruth; no, lot in trIf g" be goes
on; .'Jnere cannt be a greater reprcacD
to q gentleman than to be accounted a
liar"
An Z z bethan by was not likely
70 be a CAB Iler, and, IN truth, silenc
seaus TO have been much esteemed Tor
all men, and Harrison tells US With
p.ide II "one great silence thet Is used
az The tab. OF the honourable ano
wiser sort, generaIlie all over the
reR N"
Tn fathers Of that time ns their
sous % travel IN the Continent when
they could, for they believed that
h-m-keeplng youth have ever home
IL Wits" AID tnsE me cannot be a per
feet man not being tried and tutor'd
in ghe world" s. let bin go. eaid
these ise fathers, practice tits and
tOurnene nts, hear sweet discourse, con
verse WITH noble men,; he will be the
more ready 10 20 out in the world and
take mas place with other men.
The carefully guarded boyhood was
soon rv-r. aud they we're m8rvelousIy
young wren they spraDg fro the
4leJ ana 8 clusiOn f childhood Into
the g.nV and oazz'e of that wondou4
ege- uh1se noble E zAbethsns who
we're sn dir and sailor, courier ard
~cou"CEOr, IN turn; taking time now
aud tneu TO WIiI- a mask or a group OF
sonLeCa, or { give a helping hand "a
some struggling genius TO SpenseF or
snat promising actor ger VIII
olaRspare perhaps. Francis B aeon
eltPrei C4mOOrIdRe at twelve. 30 did
Lord ) ulnampuon Is leksOere's friend
8hd DatrOnl; SpeDs9r vent at sixteen.
FnIlID 8 dney was sent to Oxford 1t
Thirteen, from there went TO Cam
bridge, travelled and won golden opin-
Iona from ell me n before he was eIgh-
teen, enH was sent on an important
emNQaa- or rcn U -EWn