DISCIPLINE. 19 



and who might benefit by his homilies but 

 they were not his scholars ; he left them 

 generally to the care of his ushers; and 

 never shall I forget the torments I suffered 

 from the punishment the senior pedagogue 

 from some particular dislike, or from the 

 love of inflicting pain, thought proper fre- 

 quently to visit me with unknown, I was 

 sure, to his principal. 



However, in the course of the first 

 twelvemonths of my stay, the principal 

 died, and the scholars were sent home, some 

 of them never to return. This was not my 

 case; at the request of the widow I was 

 allowed to remain, and after a little time 

 the school was conducted by a gentleman 

 who had graduated at Oxford. Then, 

 indeed, did a revolution take place in that 

 afterwards most excellent school and then 

 did my young mind first begin to find plea- 

 sure in learning. The petty tyrant who had 

 exercised such arbitrary and cruel rule, 

 always carrying in his pocket a peculiar 



c2 



