...attention is paid to it then, in the end, no one will be interested. Epilogue The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stern to view, 1 knew him well and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters...

...blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school: A man severe he was, and stern...tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had...

...blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stern...tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had...

...mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stem to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited...

...that should have a better chance of maintaining currency as time passes. w The Compleat Apprentice Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had...

...connected with Goldsmith's own, is a character we immediately recognize: "The village master taught his little school; / A man severe he was, and stern to view" (196-97). Unsurprisingly, the schoolmaster is stern only on the outside: "Yet he was kind, or if severe...