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This may be the reason why Englishmen are all
thought to be mad or melancholy by the vulgar
abroad. Their money is giddily and merrily spent
among sharpers of their own country.”
6. Subjects of a Gentleman's Education.
This question has already been touched on here and
there in the preceding sections, but I propose to add
now some fuller particulars. It should, however, be
kept in mind that the following extracts only state
what young gentlemen ought to learn, not what they
commonly did learn.
The author of The Institution of a Gentleman (1555)
names “knowledge in tounges, and in thefeatesof armes,”
and “ sume knowledge in musike ” as necessary for a
gentleman.
Mulcastcr, Awz7zbzz.f (1 581),1 enumerates the following
accomplishments which a gentleman ought to possess
“for his credit and honour, besides necessarie uses ”—viz.,
“ to recede, to zvrite, to draw, to sing, to play, to haue
language, to haue learning, to haue health, and activitie,
nay euen to professe Diuinitie, Lazve, Physicke, and any
trade else commendable for cunning.”
William Kemp, the author of The Education of
Children, blk. lr., 1588, names (1) Grammar, “which
handleth diners languages, as English, Latin, Greek,
Hebrew, and such others; ” the pupil should begin
with the study of Latin, and only in case he was
intended to be a scholar should he go on with Greek ;
1 Modern edition by Mr. Quick, p. 206.
This may be the reason why Englishmen are all
thought to be mad or melancholy by the vulgar
abroad. Their money is giddily and merrily spent
among sharpers of their own country.”
6. Subjects of a Gentleman's Education.
This question has already been touched on here and
there in the preceding sections, but I propose to add
now some fuller particulars. It should, however, be
kept in mind that the following extracts only state
what young gentlemen ought to learn, not what they
commonly did learn.
The author of The Institution of a Gentleman (1555)
names “knowledge in tounges, and in thefeatesof armes,”
and “ sume knowledge in musike ” as necessary for a
gentleman.
Mulcastcr, Awz7zbzz.f (1 581),1 enumerates the following
accomplishments which a gentleman ought to possess
“for his credit and honour, besides necessarie uses ”—viz.,
“ to recede, to zvrite, to draw, to sing, to play, to haue
language, to haue learning, to haue health, and activitie,
nay euen to professe Diuinitie, Lazve, Physicke, and any
trade else commendable for cunning.”
William Kemp, the author of The Education of
Children, blk. lr., 1588, names (1) Grammar, “which
handleth diners languages, as English, Latin, Greek,
Hebrew, and such others; ” the pupil should begin
with the study of Latin, and only in case he was
intended to be a scholar should he go on with Greek ;
1 Modern edition by Mr. Quick, p. 206.