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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: most of all, men of Bideford school. Oh renowned school! Oh
schoolboys ennobled by fellowship with him! Oh most happy
pedagogue, to whom it has befallen to have chastised a
circumnavigator, and, like another Chiron, trained another
Hercules: yet more than Hercules, for he placed his pillars on the
ocean shore, and then returned; but my scholar's voyage--"
"Hark how the old fox is praising himself all along on the sly,"
said Cary.
"Mr. William, Mr. william, peace;--silentium, my graceless pupil.
Urge the foaming steed, and strike terror into the rapid stag, but
meddle not with matters too high for thee."
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