A Boy For All Seasons

 

A tale of boys and a man that is intended to entertain and is a work of fiction entire. The Author is cognisant that there are those who may find wish and desire to be so entertained but are deemed to be not yet of an age sufficient to be so, and such are urged to seek entertainment other.
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It could not be denied that Lady Winchelsea was in possession of a most ample bosom, and, as was in accordance with the fashion of the time, much of it was artfully displayed on all occasions.

That his wife's bosom was so generously displayed concerned Lord Winchelsea not the slightest; she had done her duty by him and produced an heir and three spares to boot, and as she had now reached the advanced age of beyond thirty, Lord Winchelsea's attentions were much inclined to younger bosoms.

Not so, it appeared, the attentions of Robert, Earl of Weston, whose gaze was most frequently noted to be directed towards the breasts of Lady Winchelsea, encouraging much gossip and wonder if the Earl had wish for the lady as a mistress.

True it was that the lady was not young, more than thirty years, and four times whelped, but there were many who swore by such as mistresses; ladies of some considerable experience, it was oft declared, knew of cunning ways to please a man, more so than any virgin maid.

For lady Winchelsea the prospect of being mistress for an Earl was a thing that needed no debating on; her husband was a Lord, but Earls had greater power and connection than mere Lords did, and was not Robert, the Earl of Weston, not of Royal Blood? To be mistress to one such as he must bring with that some advancement, and thus the lady made herself available for courtship and seduction.

Consider then the Lady Winchelsea's surprise and consternation when the Earl revealed to her that he had no wish to take her as his mistress, that her ample bosom and cunning quim in no way had interest for him and that his desires were set elsewhere, indeed upon the hard flat chest and the tight, firm arse of Henry, the heir to Lord Winchelsea's estate.

Lady Winchelsea, being a woman of her time, was aware of matters that were not spoken of in polite society – there were, after all, several `Molly Houses' in London where boys were available, at a price, to amuse men, and several rumours had it that in certain Gentlemen's Clubs, scantily clad (if clad at all!) boys served Gentlemen with coffee and brandy in private rooms.

Know, if only by word of gossip, of such matters as she did, Lady Winchelsea, like so many of her sex, had no comprehension of why a man should wish to dally with a boy when girls and women were so clearly intended for that purpose and were so willing and eager to be dallied with, but that they did so could not be denied.

"You wish for Henry as your mistress?" Lady Winchelsea enquired of Earl Robert as they walked the rose garden of the grand house of none other than the Lord Chancellor, "You desire him for sodomy?"

As befitted a lady of her standing, Lady Winchelsea betrayed no unwarranted emotions, her tone unaltered from that she had used when discussing varieties of rose, and whether red or yellow was more pleasing to the eye.

"I have but observed him from some little distance," Earl Robert lifted a yellow rose to his face as though to savour the scent, "But I have noted the fineness of his form, and he presents a most pleasing leg. I have belief that sodomy would become him greatly."

"That is as maybe," Lady Winchelsea extended a delicate finger in the direction of a white rose bloom, "But may a boy have hope of advancement some were he to become the mistress of an Earl?"

"That he would, m'Lady," Earl Robert severed the white rose bloom most neatly from its bush, by means of a deft stroke of his knife, presenting it to Lady Winchelsea, making some small leg as he did so, "Greater, no doubt, than that his mother may have some hope of."

"Is that your word, my Lord?" the Lady enquired, out of humour some that the son should be preferred to the mother, but assured that it was indeed so, accepted the offered bloom.

Watchers, and rose gardens have always eyes and there were some several making observation of the discourse between Earl and Lady, made whisper behind fluttered fans that the ample bosom of Lady Winchelsea would this night be released fully from what little confinement presently constrained it, and though it was most mannerly, a red rose more so than a white would have been the more fitting, for none could imagine that the lady had any claim to white.

Lord Winchelsea was known to be a man of reason, and so he proved himself when informed by his lady wife that Henry, his son and heir, was desired by Earl Robert for the purposes of sodomy.

Sodomy was contrary to the law of man and also to the Law of God and must therefore be performed behind a veil of some secrecy, however thin that veil may be; much talk there was in learned circles, even by one who was a Bishop, of Appearance and Reality, and in the matter of gentlemen and sodomy, appearance was reality. A gentleman may take a boy and bugger him nightly and without constraint, save only that there be some seeming reason other than open sodomy for the gentleman to have the boy so often in his company.

"I shall express my profound gratitude to the Earl," Lord Winchelsea said with perfect equanimity, "That he sees prospect such in Henry that he graciously offers to take the boy into his household for to complete his education, and that some future position of some worth be found for him should he prove to merit it."

Such gratitude must needs be expressed, and that most openly and publicly, so all would know that Earl Robert took young Henry into his household for the furtherance of his education and not for sodomy, but first must be established that the boy was amenable to being sodomised and able to provide satisfaction to the Earl in performance of that essential task. The Earl, Lady Winchelsea was obliged to explain to Henry, desired a mistress, not a ward. Henry's advancement in life would come about through his performances in bed and not result from any dedication to study, though naturally the latter would be the appearance that served to conceal the reality of the former.

Lord Winchelsea believed the matter of reality to be business none of his, concerned as he was with only the proper appearance, and announced to his wife that he would absent himself from London on the morrow and return again in one week's time, trusted that his son would know how to do his duty and left all necessary arrangement to his lady wife.

Lady Winchelsea was no novice in the matter of arranging dalliance – since the birth of James, the youngest boy now nine years of age, Lord Winchelsea had turned his attentions entire to young serving maids, he having perhaps surprisingly for his time, no interest in boys of the kitchen or stable, and his lady, being but yet not twenty and five, still in possession of a most itchy quim though four times had she by then whelped, had found need to satisfy that itch elsewhere.

A letter she had sent then to Earl Robert by a footman, and knowing that doubtless it would be read by that same, couched it in most careful cunning words.

"As you have but recently brought to my attention your interest and knowledge of roses, and my husband being gone from London for some days hence, I wonder if I may presume upon you for your company at dinner, both for the pleasure of such company and also for discussion upon a rose I have.
I am determined that it is one of the purest white but yet it remains but the tightest of buds and I am given to wonder if your Lordship has the knowledge and skill to know how it may be opened. I have much hope that the flower, should it be induced to bloom, will be of some lasting delight."

The footman, as was both expected and intended, snorted with derision some at what he perceived to be the vanity of the lady in protesting that she had both a pure white rose with bud yet to be opened when she had whelped four times and her flower was near to drooping and losing all its petals, but Earl Robert saw a different reality behind the appearance of the words.

To him it was most plain that he had been informed that the boy he desired was a virgin still and that permission was granted to him to make assay for that boy to be his mistress, and this very evening he was invited to discover if the boy's rosebud was willing to be made to flower.

Perhaps some may wonder why it should be that Lord Robert had desire of a boy for his mistress, but such idle wonderings must come only from those who have no great acquaintance with boys; any who have acquaintance more than passing will declare that there is delight more to be found in a boy than simply that he may provide in a bed. To make discourse with a boy at dinner, even though he be fully clothed, is one such delight, as is to be seen in company with him in gatherings of society and smile with pride as he engages with his elders in easy converse.

A boy may provide a man with many and varied delights, and in a manner more amenable to a man's nature than any woman may do, for boys have no desire to dominate and demand; they know by nature that skilful sodomy can bring about their wishes and desires.

This Earl Robert well knew and understood, but to young Henry such was a barely glimpsed mystery.

As yet still more boy than youth, young Henry at fifteen years of age presented to the world a personable figure. By nature his form was slender, though his delight in riding to the chase had added shape and substance some, so for his age he had a most acceptable leg. His hair, more the colour of Autumn leaves than that of summer ripe corn, was, according to the fashion of the day, worn long, though not in the tight curls so in favour, but more in gentle waves that lapped upon his shoulders, a crafted frame to his almost elfin face.

By disposition, though much inclined to the chase, Henry's young passion was for poetry, his ordinary filled with his attempts at that most complicated form of penmanship, all of such, it must be stated, devoid of any worth. Greatly he longed to pen such verses as those he read of Mr William Shakespeare, though the construction of a sonnet was much beyond his skills.

What must it be, he wondered much and often, to be compared to a summer's day? To hear whispered that he was more lovely and more beautiful? And how, he wondered also, could one be master and mistress both? And that of passion too?

Being as he was a boy, and one of fifteen years, he made some consideration that Mr Shakespeare's exquisite sonnets were to do somewhat with sodomy, for he could find no doubts that they were written to a boy, so easy was it for his mind to think of himself as that boy, swooning with adoration into the arms of the man who wrote so.

Sodomy was a sin, but not a sin that gave young Henry great concern being that he thought it were a sin that were much related to that of Onan, and that a sin Henry had much acquaintance with, and found to be most amenable.

Thus it was, and greatly to Lady Winchelsea's peace of mind, that her son greeted the news that an earl had some wish for him as mistress, not with horror and stubborn denial, but with enquiry if that Earl would write him pretty sonnets.

Lady Winchelsea wondered indeed if young Henry understood the nature of sodomy, though she enquired not of that, but told the boy his father expected of him that he would do his duty and trusted that were sufficient.

For the boy it were a matter of some adventure and excitement, the meaning of `master mistress' now seeming most clear, and if he was regaled with sonnets or no, Henry was a boy and thus most eager to make discovery of a new sin.

Upon arrival the Earl was informed that the Lady was in her private chambers and would receive him there, an arrangement the Earl had much approval of as it presented to the servants the appearance of his impending dalliance with the lady and so concealed the reality that it were the son and not the mother he had wish to dally with.

His natural expectation was that there would be some small talk, perhaps assurances sought that he did indeed wish for the boy as mistress and not mere catamite, for though a boy may expect and indeed sometimes obtain some small advancement from being catamite, more surely would he have hope for such were he elevated from catamite to mistress.

It was therefore of some surprise that the Lady did not engage the Earl in such small talk, nor did she wait till servants were once more safely below stairs before leading the eager Earl to the boy's chamber, and indeed, she led him not there at all, but to her own bedchamber instead.

"Tut, my Lord," she admonished when the Earl expressed surprise, "Have you no knowing of the ways of household maids? The bedsheets will be most closely inspected in the morn, and what tittle will be tattled if they should show no signs of anything but sleep?"

Indeed the Earl had no such knowledge, but still he wondered why he should be taken to the Lady's bedchamber till he made observation of the lady's bed.

That bed did not await the lady's presence, nor was it intended for sleep alone, for in it was the reason for the Earl's visit and the object of his desire, presented in such wise as no doubt could be entertained that the Earl's desire should have accommodation.

Henry reclined against piled pillows, his upper body unclothed in full, a position he had maintained with utmost stillness since his mother had arranged with care a sheet a mere fraction above where his boy hairs grew and bid him remain unmoving.

So plainly was the boy purposed for sodomy that the Earl doubted much that he was clothed more below the sheet than above, a doubting he must wait for the departure of the boy's mother to make certain of.

Depart she did, and with consideration, bidding `Good night' and taking her leave so sodomy may begin.

"Know you why I am here?" the Earl enquired, politeness requiring he did not make straight to join the boy in bed.

"Indeed, my Lord," Henry answered and spoke the speech he had much rehearsed, drawing words and phrases from the sonnets of Mr Shakespeare, thinking they more suitable than any his own mind could conceive, "My mother has given me understanding that you have some wish that I be the master mistress of your passion, though I know not why that should be, for a summer's day is more lovely and more beautiful than I, and indeed, my eyes are nothing like the sun, though perhaps by chance Nature has added something and prick'd me out for your pleasure."

"Most prettily spoken," the Earl, impressed, declared.

"Mostly," the boy confessed, "The words are those of one Mr Shakespeare and not my own, for he did write most wonderful sonnets, and I believe they to be of sodomy desired, and, Sir, it is for sodomy that you have desire of me, is it not so?"

"And are you content for sodomy?" the Earl asked, finding words more difficult to come by than had the boy, for he had expected to be presented with the boy full clothed and to have need to seduce, and this were different entire.

"I believe so, Sir," Henry had rehearsed words for this occasion also, though Mr Shakespeare had none to aid him so all were his own, "I opine that sodomy must be something of a pleasure, for if it were not, why should men wish for it and boys consent to it?"

"Why indeed?" Earl Robert was obliged to smile, for that it seemed almost that the boy were seducing him and not he the boy, yet some doubt did he have that young Henry knew any more of sodomy than the word itself. He spoke of it freely enough but his mother's word were that he was a tight rosebud still, his flower yet to open.

The Earl reached forward and withdrew the bedsheet that was so cunningly arranged to cover and yet reveal.

"Nature indeed has prick'd you out for pleasure," he remarked, making observation of what was revealed, an observation that gave Henry cause both to blush some and also smile, for boys, be they boys who know of sodomy or no, all have liking to hear praise made of that part of them.

Henry, truth to tell, knew of sodomy but only the pretty words of Mr Shakespeare and his own fanciful, romantic imaginings that came when nightly he made a boy's use of that which Nature had given him to prick him out for pleasure, though by the dawn to come, many discoveries he would have made under the tutorage of Earl Robert and many wonders would have been revealed to him, but for his siblings such was not the case.

They, all three, were not the heir but were the spares, of importance only should some misfortunate fortune make promotion of them, and they did not have chamber and bed each for themselves as did Henry, but shared both chamber and bed together.

Edward, the first in the line of spares, was now thirteen, and a boy in appearance much like to his older brother Henry, but in disposition in no way so. While Henry dreamed dreams of romance and sonnets of love and penned execrable verse in his ordinary, Edward wrestled with stable boys and dreamed of glory and wealth, scattering a fleet of the Dutch with but his own redoubtable ship before he sailed that same ship to far off Africa to fill the holds with black gold that he would sell in the islands of the Caribbean and so make his fortune.

Such had been his imaginings when he made his way to the stables on a morn with intent to wrestle with a stable boy there who displayed more inclination than others to rough and tumble with the second son of the Lord of the Manor than did the other boys who were more circumspect in their behaviour.

The sounds Edward heard as he approached the stables were much like to the sounds made when wrestling, grunts and groans and muffled squeals, but the sight he saw were like to no wrestling he had any knowledge of, though wrestling of a sort it surely had to be.

The stable boy was bent over a bale of hay, an older groom pinning him there by weight of body on him, and pushing most hard into him, no doubt to make him cry submission.

The stable boy was determined in his insistence not to cry `Submit' and pushed back against the groom and grunted much with the effort as he did so, and Edward was much entertained by this form of wrestle, the more so perhaps because both stable boy and groom had their britches at their ankles and Edward was observing the bared buttocks of the groom as he thrust down on the stable boy.

This style of wrestle were one that Edward knew upon the instant to be a thing he desired more knowledge of and determined to seek out the stable boy at some later time and demand instruction on the manner of the wrestle holds employed, and why they were to be employed with lowered britches.

The stable boy proved much reluctant to discourse on the nature of that sport, believing it to be a country thing and not a game boys of more noble birth would have any wish to play, but Edward was in no wise disconcerted by the bashfulness of a mere stable boy and made promise, should the boy prove both a goodly teacher and an acceptable opponent when rules had been mastered, Edward would make him Lieutenant on his ship and he would so enjoy the fame and glory of the defeat at sea of the Dutch and also the wealth and fortune gained from the selling of black African gold in the Caribbean.

The stable boy knew nothing of black African gold nor anything of where the Caribbean might be, but `fame' and `fortune' were words he had some knowing of and on promise of such he agreed to give instruction to Edward in how the game was played, should Edward make discovery of some suitable and secret place where instruction may be given.

Most plain he made it that the game was in general played by one that was older than the other, but this feeble objection Edward straight dismissed – was he not thirteen and the stable boy but twelve?

So it was that Edward learned of the two most employed holds in the game of sodomy; in one the younger took the member of the older in his mouth and sucked upon it till seed did flow, and in the other the elder placed his member in the arse of the younger and both then moved together until the object of the game were accomplished.

Edward was most entranced by this new game, and was he not the oldest of the three spares, and did not Charles and James, the younger two, nightly share a bed with him?

Thus while Henry dreamed of romance and penned awful verse in his ordinary, his younger siblings played at sodomy and lost all wish that they should have separate chambers and beds.

But now, while his younger brothers played their boy games of sodomy, which extended not beyond those two holds that Edward had learned of from the stable boy, Henry found discovery that sodomy involved more ways than that in which a man may take pleasure from and give delight to a boy.

Earl Robert was a greatly accomplished sodomite, much skilled in that ancient art, and though he penned no sonnets to slender and romantic Henry, he played such tunes upon his body that many times was the boy near to fainting, so exquisite was the music made upon him.

Many times and oft did the Earl take that part of Henry that Nature has given boys but not so women into his mouth and Henry was lost in the wonder of it and made many soft noises of delight. Louder by far were the noises made when Henry was brought to the discovery that though the chests of boys are flat and hard and do not swell as those of women do, yet still do they have important place in sodomy, and nipples, when licked and gently bitten, do lead a boy's thoughts most assuredly to buggery, though never had he known such thoughts before.

So it was with Henry, and much he began to cast his mind to that part of Earl Robert that men have as do boys, and wondered much how it would be to hold and even to take in his mouth, as his part had been so by Lord Robert, but as he was but an innocent boy and much below the status of the man who was sodomising him, these things he dared not to do unless he were so bid.

Fortunate then for Henry that the Earl had sodomised many boys, and fortunate also, as Henry would discover, that Nature had prick'd him out to take his pleasure with boys, for though his member had length sufficient ample for the task, in girth it were more rapier than sabre.

"Sweet it would be," the Earl made venture into honeyed words, "Were my cock brought to crowing by your soft lips," and straight Henry made assay to grant the Earl's request, and being as the Earl possessed stiletto more than dagger, it were a task easily accomplished.

Though the boy's efforts were performed with a notable lack of skill, it being the first time he had ventured into sodomy so, yet still the Earl expressed his pleasure, marvelling aloud at the wondrous softness of Henry's lips and the glory of the warm, wet cavern of his mouth, sweet words that pleased Henry much.

That this were all with intent to prepare Henry for the opening of his rosebud should never be doubted, for though that the Earl was a man of honour and had full intent to take Henry as his mistress, one such as Earl Robert were not the man to be abed with a boy and set himself for sleep and with that boy unbuggered still, and so the Earl declined to have his cock brought to crowing by Henry's soft and silky mouth.

Lord Robert, being most peculiarly equipped to bugger boys, and in especial those with still unopened rosebuds, Henry suffered but some mild discomfort when his petals were obliged to open and he made discard of virginity with near to careless ease.

Content that Henry would prove suitable as mistress, the boy displaying only content with sodomy, though in private Henry did lament some that Earl Robert penned no pretty sonnets to his soft mouth, his always ready prick or his ever willing boy quim, the Earl made visits more to the house of Lord Winchelsea to paint the canvas of appearance that he found the lady's bosom of some attraction and that by chance he had discovered merit some in the boy that may profit from advancement.

All would doubtless have proceeded as the Earl had contrived had not the notice of Edward, the eldest of the spares, been drawn to the way that Henry walked in a manner most like the walk of the stable boy after he had played at wrestle with the groom, James and Charles also when all wrestled in that same manner.

That Henry played at wrestle with the Earl in that form the stable boy had told him the proper name for were `buggery', Edward had no doubting of, for what other cause could there be for Henry to walk so and only in the morns after the Earl had made visit for the night?

Edward observed the Earl and made wonder of the nature of his pizzle, of how large it were and if it should be that it could make entry to the rear of a boy of fifteen as easy as did his to that of Charles, who were eleven, and Charles also so with James who was but nine, and as yet would only permit himself to use his mouth with Edward for fear his older brother were already grown too large for him.

Enquiry Edward made of the stable boy of the nature of the groom he wrestled with, the groom being a man full grown, and were told that indeed a man full grown were of a far greater size than any boy, and at the first much had it hurt, but still did a boy find great delight in being buggered and the fuller he were filled, the greater were the delight.

So did Edward observe the Earl with ever greater interest, his mind filled with consideration as to the dimensions of the Earl and if he filled Henry to the brim or no, and being as he were a boy of but thirteen, his thoughts declared themselves most plainly on his face.

Earl Robert was not a man who gave a comely boy a passing glance and then forgot him when the glance were done, and Edward were a comely boy in both form and feature, smaller yet more firmly built than was his older brother, Henry.

Edward's face, and most his eyes, betrayed a boy who has made discovery some of sodomy and has a wish to know more of it, and such, combined with fairness of form and feature, gave the Earl cause to ponder on the possibility of sodomitic enterprise, and how such, if accomplished, may differ from that provided by the oldest brother.

Dreamy and romantic by nature, Henry was most suited to being mistress for a sodomite, for also was he dreamy and romantic in the bed, accepting kisses and buggery both with languid compliance and evident satisfaction, but Edward's disposition gave promise of sodomy of a different nature entire.

Where Henry dreamed romantic dreams of sonnets of love, Edward dreamed dreams of glory and of fame, of Dutch ships sunk by the very dozen and of ship's holds filled with black African gold. Where Henry's rosebud had blossomed into a thornless bloom, Edward's would doubtless make sharp demands, pricking as much as it were prick'd.

Such a one had no place as a mistress, yet Edward, though but thirteen, gave promise much of adding spice to the meat of sodomy, and such a one, if turned to catamite, held prospect of much great pleasure.

That he should take the heir of Lord Winchelsea's estate as mistress and the first of the spares as catamite besides, troubled the mind of Earl Robert not at all; should some misfortune befall the heir, such advancement as had been promised him would fall then to the spare, who would indeed be spare no more and so would Lord Winchelsea's estate be still advanced.

So then did Earl Robert seek and contrive occasion to have converse with Edward to make discovery of how his mind were set on many things, though all with the purpose of divining if he be amenable to sodomy or no.

Such divination were a matter of little difficulty, for Edward were often to be seen in consort with the stable boy who was ever most desirous to play at wrestle, and as young Edward showed but passing interest in horses and interest far more in the boy who cleaned the stables, Earl Robert came to conclusion as to why that should be so.

Edward also had made conclusion, and that were that Earl Robert's desire was not for converse, but for a different thing entire, and this dismayed Edward not at all. Indeed it lit a fuse of sibling rivalry in Edward; no doubt he entertained that the Earl were buggering Henry, and if the heir, why not then the spare?

Metaphors of summer days and rosebuds yet to open were for Henry and not for Edward; he was but thirteen and had not yet made learning of how to say a thing and mean another, thus was his converse with Earl Robert most plain and direct.

"I perceive you have some wish to bugger me, my Lord," Edward stated, "That you bugger Henry is most evident, and now you wish to make comparison between the heir and a spare."

Presented thus with such open understanding, Earl Robert made no attempt at dissemblance but went straight to the negotiation of what was required as reward for being buggered. Henry was to be Oxford educated and found after position of some importance, but Edward wished only for fame and fortune.

Fame Earl Robert could not provide, but prospect of fortune some was within his power. The Earl had but recently become cognisant of that same trade in black gold that so filled the imagination of young Edward and had purchased a share in a vessel that would sail to Africa to buy black gold and then to the Caribbean where it may be sold at handsome profit, and if Edward had some hankering for adventure, a position as apprentice to the Master could be found for him and some share also in the monies made.

That Edward could rise from apprentice to Master and then to owner of a ship that traded in black gold and so acquire wealth considerable were indeed sufficient for the boy to consent straight to being buggered, smiling as he did so that this offer were so much like the one he had himself made to the stable boy.

It would be unjust to labour under the misapprehension that Edward were concerned only with himself, for when he had given himself to the Earl for sodomy some, but not yet for buggery proper, he made reminder to Earl Robert that he were not the only spare, and two more there were who were in need of some consideration.

One were eleven and the other nine and both with buds that had been opened some, and should the Earl take all into his household, surely then he would be in possession of a boy for every season, or at the very least from the early spring of James' young mouth to the high summer of Henry's arse, and could any sodomite have wish for more?

That sodomy and buggery both are of great aid to any boy that has a wish to make advancement in life was surely evidenced by the four sons of Lord and Lady Winchelsea.

Henry prospered much at Oxford and grew to be Secretary to Earl Robert's estate, a position of much importance and some notable wealth; Charles, of disposition more languid than even Henry, applied himself to the painting of pictures, and made some fame and fortune, his especial talent being in making portraits of the sons of noblemen that were much admired.

The youngest, James, went also to Oxford, and his learning he put to much use when he were made Master of a school the Earl founded for the better education of the sons of lesser gentlemen. Most uprightly and morally did James run that school, most fiercely beating the bare arse of any boy found in a morn to be in a bed other than the one he had occupied when the Master made his nightly round.

Beds there were sufficient for there to be no need for any to contain other than two boys, and each night, after supper and before bed, the older boys played dice or cards, the winners making choice of the younger who they would take that night. This James had introduced, both that boys should learn the proper way to play at cards and dice, an essential part of any young gentleman's education, and also as a device so the biggest and oldest of the boys did not have sole claim of the youngest and prettiest.

That boys must be in the same bed in the morn as they were at night were to prevent the young and pretty from being passed from bed to bed and so buggered more than that they should be.

As for Edward, he prospered greatly, growing wealthier year by year as the trade in black gold grew and prospered. By twenty Edward were the Master of a ship of that trade, and at five and twenty he had wealth sufficient to make purchase of such of his own.

He returned not to England, but set up house in the islands of the Caribbean, staffing it entire with young and pretty pieces of black gold, and lived a most fulfilling life of sodomy and buggery.

As for the Earl, he was not deprived of boys when Henry and the spares aged beyond suitability for sodomy and buggery; was he not the patron of a school, and were not the boys of that school of proper ages to be sodomised and buggered, and were they not all versed and educated in those arts?

Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn, Earl Robert in England, Edward in his island, James in his school and Charles in his studio, had boys aplenty for each and every season.

Only Henry, who as he were the heir and was so obliged to marry and produce both heir and spares, had need to make secret use of boys of the kitchen and the stable, and so he did, no matter what the weather.

 

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