Laglast

Master Roland says I am a dunce if I do not make them; and shall abide as I am, the laglast of the school, till I better know how to scan my lines, and have learnt the difference between a trochee and a spondee; […]

It may be taken for granted, it is said, that where the cleverest boys are best taught, there the laglasts will be whipped up most sharply.