Chapter 37

All parents would have children learned 142
The Country must decide 143
Necessity a good restraint 144
Number of scholars kept down by law 145
Private opinion must yield to public 146
The poor and the rich 147
Fewer bookmen needed since Reformation 148
A learned paucity. Choice 149
Right choice in a monarchy 150
Ideal monarchy scholar 151
His patience with masters and comrades 152
Less clear cases. Master first chooser 153
Against early choice. Some dullards kept 154
Schoolmaster and parent 155
The same. Colleges not almshouses 156
Evils from bad elections 157
Catchers in Colleges 158
College factions warned 159
Influence of the great misused by the little 160
Abuse of patronage 161
Bursuries. Degrees gained by favour 162
Daws as peacocks 163
Evils ensuing. Livings 164
Preferment to livings 165
Professions overcrowded 166