Lord Cholmondeley was early in life a boy of great parts, and they have
continued so ever since, though not lively ones. Earl of Buckingham
was a plain good scholar, but ~79~~ would have been better at any
other school, for he was no poet, and verse is here one of the first
requisites; besides, he had an impediment in his speech, which, in
the hurry of repeating a lesson before a number of boys, was always
increased. It was inculcated to him by his dame--that he must look upon
himself as the reverse of a woman in every thing, and not hold--that
whoever "_deliberates is lost_."
Lord Harrington was a boy of much natural spirit. In the great
rebellion, under _Forster_, when all the boys threw their books into the
Thames, and marched to Salt Hill, he was amongst the foremost. At that
place each took an oath, or rather swore, he would be d------d if ever
he returned to school again.
When, therefore, he came to London to the old Lord Harrington's, and
sent up his name, his father would only speak to him at the door,
insisting, at the same time, on his immediate return. "Sir," said the
son, "consider I shall be d--d if I do!" "And I" answered the father,
"will be d--d if you don't!"
"Yes, my lord," replied the son, "but you will be d--d together I do or
no!"
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