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In the School of -- -- - is a Tablet, on which are inscribed, in gilt letters, the names of the several persons who have been Schoolmasters there since the foundation of the School, with the time at which they entered upon and quitted their office. Opposite one of those names the Author wrote the following lines.
If Nature, for a favourite Child / In thee hath tempered so her clay, / That every hour thy heart runs wild, / Yet never once doth go astray, / Read o'er these lines; and then review / This tablet, that thus humbly rears / In such diversity of hue / Its history of two hundred years.