[Footnote 12: Compare Skelton’s account of Wolsey’s treatment of the Nobles, in _Why come ye not to Courte_ (quoted in Ellis’s _Letters_, v. ii. p. 3). --“Our barons be so bolde, Into a mouse hole they wold Runne away and creep Like a mainy of sheep: Dare not look out a dur For drede of the maystife cur, For drede of the boucher’s dog “For and this curre do gnarl, They must stande all afar To holde up their hand at the bar. For all their noble bloude, He pluckes them by the hood And shakes them by the eare, And bryngs them in such feare; He bayteth them lyke a beare, Like an Ox or a Bul. Their wittes, he sayth, are dul; He sayth they have no brayne Their estate to maintaine: And make to bowe the knee Before his Majestie.”] [Footnote 13: Compare also the quotation from Piers Plowman’s Crede, under No. 5, p. xlv, and Palsgrave, 1530 A.D., ‘I mase, I stonysshe, _Je bestourne_. You mased the boye so sore with beatyng that he coulde not speake a worde.’ See a gross instance of cruelty cited from Erasmus’s Letters, by Staunton, in his _Great Schools of England_, p. 179-80.] [Footnote 14: “And therfore do I the more lament that soch [hard] wittes commonlie be either kepte from learning by fond fathers, or _bet from learning by lewde scholemasters_,” ed. Mayor, p. 19. But Ascham reproves parents for paying their masters so badly: “it is pitie, that commonlie more care is had, yea and that emonges verie wise men, to finde out rather a cunnynge man for their horse than a cunnyng man for their children. They say nay in worde, but they do so in deede. For, to the one they will gladlie give a stipend of 200. Crounes by yeare, and loth to offer to the other, 200. shillinges. God, that sitteth in heauen, laugheth their choice to skorne, and rewardeth their liberalitie as it should: for he suffereth them to have tame and well ordered horse, but wilde and unfortunate Children.” _Ib._ p. 20] [Footnote 15-15: _Sanctæ memoriæ _Robertum_ Cognominatum _Grodsted_ dudum _Lincolniendem_ Episcopum, Regi _Henrico_ quasi admirando, cum interrogavit, ubi Noraturam didicit, quâ Filios Nobilium Procerum Regni, quos secum habuit Domisellos, instruxerat, cum non de nobili prosapia, sed de simplicibus traxisset Originem, fertur intrepide respondisse, In Domo seu Hospitio Majorum Regum quam sit Rex Angliæ; Quia Regum, _David, Salomonis_, & aliorum, vivendi morem didicerat ex Intelligentia scripturarum._]