Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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Now as I could make little sense of his speech I did ask straitway for an audience with the king of the isle, whereupon Master Ludwig did inform me with much exuberance that he himself was erily the king, or leastwise king over one part of the inhabitants, and yet this kingship was not like to any I ever did hear of. After some time in converse and with considerable pains, I was able to obtain .some knowledge of the natural hierarchy of the isle and of the laws by which its people are governed, and were these latter not so contrary to those of mine own country I should be tempted to say a little in their justification, but I shall treat of them presentl) ' , and .so much for now. )i . •fy

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r.r ' ' : :■ n- -r . V- « - - This road did I follow til I met with an inhabitant of the isle, a man of strange appearanee and man- ner, though I pt ' rforee did percei e at once he was fully human. .And I was no little awed when he did hail me in mine own tongue and did greet me with much hopping up and down, and much shaking of hands, and exceeding friendly countenance, and many hihihihis, which address, in its shortened form, is a chief custom of this isle. And this in- habitant was called Master Ludwig by name.

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When I was become more accustomed to the speech of Master Ludwig I was able to make out that all the isle is divided principally onto three parts, being the Elders, which ha e power to col- lect re enue and to build hillocks, and the Schole- masters, whose chief charge is the educating of the students, which do comprise the third and greatest part of the populace. The students are divided yet again into four smaller parts called classes, accord- ing to the number of years they have dwelt in the i.sle. . o the students do govern themselves after a fashion by a certain Council, consisting of mem- bers duly elected from the bod - politick, and these members do sit on committee with the Scholemasters and do conduct trials of their fi ' llows according to the Honour S stem. of which I will speak later.