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 4 THE HISTORY throve in fleſh but never would take to his feet. In the place where they laid him down there they found him. Moreover his chiefeſt delight was as he grew up to ſleep in his clothes, and eſpecially if he could but get a pillow in the chimney corner, there he would lie to his ſatisfaction ; by which means he had almoſt loſt the name of Law- rence, most of the ſervants calling him Lob-lie by-the-fire ; at which his pa- rents were much offended, and ſharply reproved the ſervants who gave him that nick-name. He muſt be called Lawrence, foraſmuch as his name did agree with his qualities, and his qua- lities with his name. Now the lady his mother on a cer- tain day ſaid to his father, Let us put our ſon to the boarding-ſchool, for be- tween the help of his learning, and the pleaſant company of young fchd iars, he may be made to be both livel and active. His father conſented thers to, ſo that he was forth with carried to ſchool, for he would not go; the fa- ther agreeing with the maſter for hiſ ſon's board and education, earneſt deſired he might have the liberty