Your Lordship by this may see how much this sawcy fellow has abused this learned man's fine copy of verses; and how justly he deserved the correction which was inflicted on him at that school.
By the tenth Distich it appears that the School (containing then Tercentum juvenes) was managed by three Masters onely: and, for aught we know, might flourish pretty well, though it had not twice that number.
Give me leave, my Lord, to subscribe myself with profound respect,
Your Honor's
most oblig'd, most obedient,
and most humble Servt.
M. Maittaire.
"IN INCLYTAM SCHOLAM REGIAM WESTMONASTERIENSEM.
Reginæ fundata manu, Regina scholarum;
Quam Virgo extruxit, Musáq; Virgo colit.