"From Paul's I went, to Eton sent,
To learn straightways the Latin phrase,
When fifty-three stripes given to me
At once I had:
For fault but small or none at all
It came to pass, thus beat I was.
See, Udall, see the mercy of thee
To me, poor lad!"
Nicholas Udall was the master of Eton at the time.
Peacham tells of one pedagogue who used to whip his boys of a cold morning "for no other purpose than to get himself a heat." No doubt it warmed the boys too, but it is not recorded that they liked the method.