I would gladly accept a mastership in some high school.

He had taken a first in Greats; he had obtained his mastership; for the last two years he had had a House.

And canst thou hope, as once on Earth, Applause to gain by specious worth; Like those that still by sneer and taunt Would prove pernicious what they want; And claim the mastership of Art,

Yet, in verity, I had no skill to manage this, neither had it flown, through an hundred thousand years; so that none did know the mastership of that art, which did be learned but by a constant practice, and oft made uneasy by fallings that did wreck the machine, as I did know from the Book of Flying.

We thank your mastership.

He was much aided by the encouragement which he received from Lord Thurlow, who praised his abilities, and is said to have offered him a mastership in Chancery, which Mr. Scott declined.

In 1793, he resigned the mastership of Winchester, and settled himself on his living of Wickham.

And here he showed his mastership in the war, for by this means his conquests went on as effectually as if he had been abroad himself.

England affords those glorious vagabonds, That carried erst their fardles on their backs, Coursers to ride on through the gazing streets, Sweeping it in their glaring satin suits, And pages to attend their masterships: With mouthing words that better wits have framed, They purchase lands, and now esquires are made. PHILOMUSUS.