Yet, if he could have known, Borrow was better employed playing truant and living up to his life-work as a glorified vagabond than in studying in the ordinary school routine.

George Borrow belonged to a type of boy--there are many such--who learn much more out of school than in its bounds; and the boy Borrow, picking up brother vagabonds in Tombland Fair, and already beginning, in his own peculiar way, his language craze, was laying the foundations that made _Lavengro_ possible.
FOOTNOTES: [38] In earlier times we have the names of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury; Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice; John Caius, the founder of Caius College, Cambridge; and Samuel Clarke, divine and metaphysician; and, indeed, a very considerable list of England's worthies.
[39] 'Lights on Borrow,' by the Rev.Augustus Jessopp, D.D., Hon.

Canon of Norwich Cathedral, in _The Daily Chronicle_, 30th April 1900.
[40] The whole memorandum on a sheet of notepaper, signed A.D., is in the possession of Mrs.James Stuart of Carrow Abbey, Norwich, who has kindly lent it to me.
[41] This is a contemptuous reference in Martineau's own words to 'George Borrow, the writer and actor of romance,' in the allusion to Martineau's schoolfellows under Edward Valpy.

Martineau was at the Norwich Grammar School for four years--from 1815 to 1819.

See _Life and Letters_, by James Drummond and C.B.Upton, vol.i.pp.