BE A SMART FELLOW,

as follows:--"Prey Grenefield to send me faithfully worde by wrytyn,

who (how) Clemit Paston hathe do his dever i' lernying, and if he hath

nought do well, nor will nought amend, prey hym that he wyll truely

BELASH hym _tyl_ he wyll amend, and so dyd the last mastyr, and the

best eu' he had at Cambridge." And that Master Grenefield might not

want due encouragement, she concludes with promising him "X m'rs," for

his _pains_. We do not, however, learn how many _marks_ young Master

Clemit received, who certainly took _more pains_.--PATIENDO _non

faciendo_--FERENDO _non feriendo_.

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