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i LINE AGE, BIRTH, AND BOYHOOD 17

•spent at Oxford : ^u I lore an excellent stock mot with the
choicest grafts ; nor could Inn tutors pour in so fast as he
was ready to receive," The Doan of Christ (Church, Dr.
Thonmn Thornton, had it afterwards engraved upon his
own tomb at Ledlmry that ho had boon the preceptor of
" Philip Sidney, that most noble Knight." We possess
few particulars which throw any light upon Sidney's
academical career. There is some reason, however, to
believe that liberal learning at this period flourished less
npon the banks of the Isis than at Cambridge and in our
public schools, Bruno, in his account of a visit to
Oxford ton years later, introduces UB to a set of pompous
pedants, steeped in medimval scholasticism and heavy
with the indolence of fat fellowships. Hero, however.,
Sidney made the second great friendship of his youth.
It wan with Kdward J)yer, a man of quality and parts,
who chums distinction as an English poet principally by
one faultier line : " My mind to mo a kingdom is." Six*
Edward Dyer and Sir Fulke Oreville lived in bonds of
closest affection with Sir Philip Sidney through his life,
and "vv^lked together as pall-bearers at his funeral That
wan an age in which friendship easily assumed the accents
of passionate love, 1 may use this occasion to quote
verses which Sidney wrote at a later period regarding
IUB two comrades* lie had recently returned from
Wilton to the Court, and found there both (Sreville and
1 )y«r.

" My two and 1 In* nmt,
A bii'Hwd happy trinity,

AH {hive nmnt jointly net
In ilnm'Hi bond of unity,

Join hww't-B and hands, H<» let il bi*;

Malta but one wind in bodu'H" thrw,
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	i LINE AGE, BIRTH, AND BOYHOOD 17 •spent at Oxford : ^u I lore an excellent stock mot with the choicest grafts ; nor could Inn tutors pour in so fast as he was ready to receive," The Doan of Christ (Church, Dr. Thonmn Thornton, had it afterwards engraved upon his own tomb at Ledlmry that ho had boon the preceptor of " Philip Sidney, that most noble Knight." We possess few particulars which throw any light upon Sidney's academical career. There is some reason, however, to believe that liberal learning at this period flourished less npon the banks of the Isis than at Cambridge and in our public schools, Bruno, in his account of a visit to Oxford ton years later, introduces UB to a set of pompous pedants, steeped in medimval scholasticism and heavy with the indolence of fat fellowships. Hero, however., Sidney made the second great friendship of his youth. It wan with Kdward J)yer, a man of quality and parts, who chums distinction as an English poet principally by one faultier line : " My mind to mo a kingdom is." Six* Edward Dyer and Sir Fulke Oreville lived in bonds of closest affection with Sir Philip Sidney through his life, and "vv^lked together as pall-bearers at his funeral That wan an age in which friendship easily assumed the accents of passionate love, 1 may use this occasion to quote verses which Sidney wrote at a later period regarding IUB two comrades* lie had recently returned from Wilton to the Court, and found there both (Sreville and 1 )y«r. " My two and 1 In* nmt, A bii'Hwd happy trinity, AH {hive nmnt jointly net In ilnm'Hi bond of unity, Join hww't-B and hands, H<» let il bi*; Malta but one wind in bodu'H" thrw, 0