"When Johnson saw some young ladies in Lincolnshire, who were remarkably well behaved, owing to their mother’s strict discipline and severe correction, he exclaimed, in one of Shakespeare’s lines, a little varied,‘Rod, I will honour thee for this thy duty.’At a subsequent period, he observed to Dr. Rose, ‘There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.’"