How it opens
You were Marmaduke Nevile, of the great north country house of Nevile, and of the poor branch of it, which is a different house entirely.
Your kin was the Earl of Warwick, the Kingmaker, and your purse was a cousin of nobody.
Adam WarnerThey will laugh, Master Nevile. The learned have always laughed first and copied afterwards. It is the order of nature.
Choose
Bring books to the lodging, as tribute, and say nothing of why.
Take the scholar's side in everything, and let her see you do it.
Keep your distance, for the distance is what a poor man owes.