I actually have a longer C/P story that I wrote the first part of - must be 3 or 4 years ago (or longer) and just never finished it.

an apprenticelike training scheme

Up then, and try thee in playing, and scatter the griefs from thy soul, For not long shalt thou lack thy homefare, since even now did they roll Thy ship adown to the water, and her folk are bound for the main."

A: 'yea like I used to have all these little parers and little fancy girly parers but then I was like I'd probably get into trouble ... people would be like 'why do you have that'... so I went for a plain pencil parer'.