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continues, “ they learn nothing more than to drink ale
and smoke tobacco.” Clement Ellis is of the same
opinion in this matter. He observes, in his Gentile
Sinner (1661), pp. 25-27: “The father keeps the
governor (as he doth all things else) for fashion’s sake.
Such an one who may serve at least, as poore boyes
do in some princes’ Courts to sustain the blame of the
young gentleman’s miscarriages, and whom the father
may chide and beat when the son is found in a fault.
.... The son curses his tutor by the name of Baal’s
priest, and sells more bookes in half an houre than he
had bought him in a yeare Thus the young
gentleman continues, perhaps, a yeare or two [at the
University], if he have no mother upon whom he must
bestow at least 3 parts of that time in visits
And now it is time he should be hasten’d away to
some Inne of Court, there to study the Law as he did
the Liberall Arts and Sciences in the Colledge. Here
his pretence is to study and follow the Law, but it’s his
resolution never to know or obey it (p 27)
Here indeed he learnes to be (in his notion of the man)
somewhat more a gentleman then before, having now
the mock-happinesse of a licentious life, and a manu-
mission from the tyranny (as he termes it) of a school-
master and tutor.”
5. Travelling.
According to Locke (Essay on Education, § 212),
travelling was “ commonly thought to finish the work
of education and to complete the gentleman.” The
ordinary time of travel was from .16 to 21, but for
the sake of the young gentleman’s morals, Locke
continues, “ they learn nothing more than to drink ale
and smoke tobacco.” Clement Ellis is of the same
opinion in this matter. He observes, in his Gentile
Sinner (1661), pp. 25-27: “The father keeps the
governor (as he doth all things else) for fashion’s sake.
Such an one who may serve at least, as poore boyes
do in some princes’ Courts to sustain the blame of the
young gentleman’s miscarriages, and whom the father
may chide and beat when the son is found in a fault.
.... The son curses his tutor by the name of Baal’s
priest, and sells more bookes in half an houre than he
had bought him in a yeare Thus the young
gentleman continues, perhaps, a yeare or two [at the
University], if he have no mother upon whom he must
bestow at least 3 parts of that time in visits
And now it is time he should be hasten’d away to
some Inne of Court, there to study the Law as he did
the Liberall Arts and Sciences in the Colledge. Here
his pretence is to study and follow the Law, but it’s his
resolution never to know or obey it (p 27)
Here indeed he learnes to be (in his notion of the man)
somewhat more a gentleman then before, having now
the mock-happinesse of a licentious life, and a manu-
mission from the tyranny (as he termes it) of a school-
master and tutor.”
5. Travelling.
According to Locke (Essay on Education, § 212),
travelling was “ commonly thought to finish the work
of education and to complete the gentleman.” The
ordinary time of travel was from .16 to 21, but for
the sake of the young gentleman’s morals, Locke