list the things village school master could do by Oliver goldsmithlist the things village schoolmaster fuddu by Oliver Goldsmith list the things village schoolmaster could do
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way: road.
2 blossom’d furze: i.e. flowering gorse (the beautiful yellow flowers).
7 boding tremblers: anxious (and so) shaking school-children – a gently comic phrase.
13 aught: anything.
14 fault: here pronounced “fought”, to rhyme with “aught”.
16 cipher: calculate, do maths.
17 terms and tides presage: i.e. he could predict (presage) where boundaries should be and the dates of religious festivals. “Tides” means “times”, as in “Eastertide” for example.
18 gauge: calculate more complex things (like the liquid contents of a container or the area of a piece of land).
19 owned: i.e. admitted.
21 words of learned length: i.e. long words (probably from Latin).
22 rustics: working-class country people
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