text:  But doubtless as the philosopher has remarked there is no sweet without its bitter or as the poet has said "no rose without its thorn " or better perhaps as another great poet of antiquity has clothed the sentiment-- ----"Medio de fonte leporum Surgit amari aliquid;" for it was made an express stipulation of the latter office--namely the charge of the honourable young gentleman being the second son of the noble Earl Fitzoswald in Yorkshire--that the great Lady Mallerden should have joint superintendence of his studies with me and the direction of his conduct and also his religious education