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loved his winning ways, and often called him in the 

 household Guglielmina. When, after Gianbatista's death, 

 it became requisite that William should be put out in 

 life, nothing was found better than to put him with a 

 tailor in Milan, paying for his board, that he might have 

 instruction in the trade. The end of William's story is 

 thus told by Jerome 1 . (He has just adverted to the fate of 

 his son) " . . . . by which I was compelled to work all the 

 year through at Theonoston ; besides I had to lecture upon 

 Galen's art of medicine, and was intent upon it, so that I 

 again forgot my pupil. After six months, a good deal of 

 Theonoston being written, especially that part which 

 treats of the immortality of souls, I again thought of my 

 design that William should learn a trade, for he had been 

 eight years away from Dover. Then for reasons which I 

 at the time thought substantial, but which I now think 

 light (for he was a youth, a pupil, a friend who loved me, 

 and who for love of me thought little of his distant kin- 

 dred), I proposed that he should board out of the house. 

 " I said then, ' William, you grow to be a man, and have 

 learnt nothing ; that I may show how much I love you, 

 now that, as you know, I must go to Pavia, if you like I 

 will place you in the house of some tradesman ; I will pay 

 him for your keep, and provide you with clothing, so that 

 you may learn a trade. You shall then either go home, 



1 In the preface to the Dialogue de Morte. 



