Antangil: Page 131

[English Translation]

                   of Antangil. Book four.             131

       The servants are fed from the remaining, & the surplus is taken away by the servants of the Providers.
       Every two days they have white tablecloths & napkins.
       All the Masters of classes, exercises, & Doctors, pay their own expenses, as they please, being well waged & paid.
       While they are dining, the master of the chamber will put forward some subject, according to the capacity of his scholars, making them all answer one after the other, praising them if he recognizes them as argus[1] & prudent, or rebuke them, if ignorant & tardy, in order to make them by this means subtle & circumspect in the answers.
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                  Of their clothes & shoes.

                                    CHAP. VI.

       Just as their food is very simple, so are their clothes. There is a merchant supplier who gives them each two suits of apparel per year, one for winter and the other for summer: the winter one is one
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1. Argus: Unsure of the exact meaning of this word.

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