A Life of John Colet D D Dean of St Pauls And Founder of St Pauls School
A Life of John Colet D D Dean of St Pauls And Founder of St Pauls School
J H Joseph Hirst Lupton
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Wine he seldom tasted. Even at seventy years of age he would usually drink the small ale they call beer, and that too very sparingly. And yet, though equally temperate in eating also, he had such a pleasant look, and such a cheerful way of talking, that he brightened up all the repast. . . . From suppers he either abstained altogether, or, if some intimate friends had chanced to arrive — among whom, " adds Erasmus, " I might count myself — he would sit to table, but would scarce taste anything ...on it. If no such friends presented themselves, he would spend the time allotted for supper in prayer and study. " But if the dean's table was not as profusely furnished as some would have desired to see it, the money thus saved was 1 The late Dean of Chichester caustically remarked on this subject: " It is not precisely what you do that gives offence, but an unhappy manner of doing it. Colet so conducted his reform as to excite against him all the underlings of his church. The dean found it more difficult to contend with the Cretan bellies of his petty canons, than to struggle with the Boeotian intellects of his opponents at Oxford.
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