![]() NARRATOR: And when the testing was done, John Hancock, at the Governor’s right, took hold of his pen and wrote: PHILLIS: “The monarch’s folly makes the people regret,” sir. MATHER: Translate this, girl: Delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi. ![]() PHILLIS: “First follow Nature and your judgment frame by her just standard, which is still the same.” MATHER: Speak for me the first line of Pope’s “Essay on Criticism.” PHILLIS: The Reverend Samuel Sewall, Sir. And a small black girl faced them as the governor said: Governor, and around the table scholars and distinguished men - John Mather, John Moorhead, James Pitts. At the head sat Governor Thomas Hutchinson, at his right John Hancock, at his left Andrew Oliver, Lt. ![]() The faces of the men she faced were not smiling. NARRATOR: The room had a high ceiling and the oval table gleamed. ![]()
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