The true and readie way to learne the Latine tongue attested by three excelently learned and approved authours of three nations, viz. Eilhardus Lubinus, a German, Mr. Richard Carew, of Anthony in Cornwall, the French Lord of Montaigne : presented to the unpartiall, both publick and private considerations fo those that seek the advancement of learning in those nations / by Samuel Hartlib ...
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             The true and readie way to learne the Latine tongue attested by three excelently learned and approved authours of three nations, viz. Eilhardus Lubinus, a German, Mr. Richard Carew, of Anthony in Cornwall, the French Lord of Montaigne : presented to the unpartiall, both publick and private considerations fo those that seek the advancement of learning in those nations / by Samuel Hartlib ...
             Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.
          
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           Lubin, Eilhard, 1565-1621.
           Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.
           Carew, Richard, -- Sir, d. 1643?
           Latin language -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800.
        
      
    
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           THE
           True
           and
           Readie
           Way
           To
           Learne
           the
           LATINE
           TONGUE
           .
           Attested
           by
           Three
           Excellently
           Learned
           and
           Approved
           Authours
           of
           Three
           Nations
           :
           
             
               Viz.
               
            
             
               
                 
                   Eilhardus
                   Lubinus
                   ,
                   
                     a
                     German
                     ,
                  
                
                 
                   Mr.
                   Richard
                   Carew
                   ,
                   
                     of
                  
                   Anthony
                   
                     in
                  
                   Cornwall
                   ;
                
                 
                   
                     The
                     French
                     Lord
                     of
                  
                   Montaigne
                   .
                
              
            
          
           Presented
           to
           the
           Vnpartiall
           ,
           both
           Publick
           and
           Private
           Considerations
           of
           those
           that
           seek
           the
           Advancement
           of
           
             LEARNING
          
           in
           these
           
             NATIONS
             .
          
        
         
           
             By
          
           Samuel
           Hartlib
           ,
           
             
               Esq
            
          
        
         
           
             LONDON
          
           Printed
           by
           
             R.
          
           and
           
             W.
             Leybourn
          
           for
           the
           Common-wealth
           of
           
             Learning
             ,
          
           MDCLIV
           .
        
      
       
       
       
         
           TO
           The
           Right
           Honourable
           ,
           
             FRANCIS
             ROVS
             ,
          
           Esquire
           :
           SPEAKER
           of
           the
           PARLIAMENT
           Of
           the
           
             Common-Wealth
          
           of
           ENGLAND
           .
        
         
           
             
               Mr.
            
             SPEAKER
             ,
          
        
         
           ALthough
           the
           Designes
           of
           this
           Age
           do
           tend
           ,
           as
           I
           am
           verily
           perswaded
           ,
           to
           a
           thorough
           Reformation
           ;
           yet
           hitherto
           we
           cannot
           see
           much
           more
           then
           the
           Overthrow
           and
           Deformation
           of
           former
           Establishments
           :
           partly
           ,
           because
           there
           is
           much
           rubbish
           to
           be
           removed
           ;
           partly
           ,
           because
           it
           is
           not
           
           possible
           to
           build
           a
           new
           House
           where
           an
           old
           one
           is
           standing
           ,
           till
           the
           old
           one
           be
           pulled
           down
           .
           Yet
           no
           wise
           man
           will
           lay
           his
           old
           habitation
           waste
           ,
           till
           he
           know
           what
           to
           erect
           instead
           thereof
           :
           Hence
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           a
           New
           Modell
           is
           commonly
           first
           prepared
           before
           the
           old
           one
           be
           removed
           .
           I
           know
           not
           how
           far
           this
           Course
           hath
           been
           taken
           by
           others
           ,
           but
           in
           the
           Sphere
           wherein
           I
           have
           walked
           ,
           my
           Aime
           hath
           been
           rather
           to
           take
           away
           the
           Difficulties
           then
           to
           lay
           them
           open
           ,
           rather
           to
           suggest
           a
           Remedie
           then
           to
           discourse
           of
           the
           Disease
           ;
           for
           there
           is
           no
           end
           of
           Complaints
           on
           all
           hands
           ,
           seeing
           each
           Party
           doth
           lay
           open
           the
           others
           faults
           ;
           and
           few
           or
           none
           tell
           us
           ,
           how
           they
           ought
           to
           be
           mended
           .
           For
           indeed
           it
           is
           easier
           to
           see
           a
           mote
           or
           a
           web
           in
           another
           mans
           eye
           ,
           then
           to
           take
           it
           out
           ,
           and
           most
           men
           think
           themselves
           justified
           ,
           when
           they
           have
           condemned
           others
           ,
           whose
           way
           is
           different
           from
           that
           which
           they
           have
           Chosen
           .
           And
           although
           this
           seems
           to
           be
           in
           all
           other
           matters
           the
           Ordinary
           Practice
           ;
           yet
           in
           the
           Wayes
           of
           Education
           ,
           and
           the
           Reformation
           of
           Schools
           (
           the
           deepest
           foundation
           of
           all
           other
           good
           Settlement
           both
           in
           Church
           and
           Common-wealth
           )
           it
           hath
           not
           been
           followed
           hitherto
           .
           But
           my
           honoured
           Friend
           Mr.
           
             John
             Amos
             Comenius
             ,
          
           and
           some
           other
           Fellow-labourers
           and
           Correspondents
           in
           this
           Work
           with
           my self
           ,
           have
           studied
           to
           make
           as
           little
           Alteration
           
           as
           could
           be
           ,
           seeking
           onely
           the
           best
           Advantages
           which
           upon
           the
           Ordinary
           Foundations
           of
           School-teaching
           could
           be
           introduced
           :
           and
           in
           this
           Endeavour
           for
           a
           great
           many
           years
           we
           have
           Continued
           ,
           and
           many
           wayes
           attempts
           have
           been
           made
           to
           facilitate
           the
           Course
           of
           Universall
           Learning
           ,
           and
           especially
           the
           teaching
           of
           Learned
           Tongues
           ;
           and
           to
           abridge
           the
           time
           which
           is
           spent
           ,
           and
           to
           ease
           the
           toil
           which
           is
           taken
           therein
           :
           but
           when
           all
           is
           done
           ,
           we
           finde
           after
           long
           experience
           ,
           that
           it
           will
           be
           impossible
           to
           raise
           a
           Firme
           and
           Commodious
           Building
           upon
           the
           Old
           Foundation
           ;
           for
           which
           Cause
           I
           must
           needs
           shew
           now
           the
           weaknesse
           and
           defaults
           thereof
           .
           And
           because
           it
           is
           no
           small
           difficultie
           and
           hazard
           to
           venture
           upon
           the
           contradicting
           of
           a
           Custome
           so
           Universally
           received
           ,
           as
           is
           the
           Grammatical
           Tyranny
           of
           teaching
           Tongues
           ;
           Therefore
           I
           am
           willing
           to
           make
           an
           Appeal
           ,
           and
           seek
           out
           an
           Eminent
           Patron
           for
           this
           bold
           Attempt
           ,
           not
           doubting
           that
           Your
           Impartiall
           Judgement
           ,
           not
           wedded
           to
           things
           ,
           because
           they
           are
           Customary
           and
           received
           ,
           will
           look
           into
           this
           thing
           with
           a
           more
           single
           eye
           ,
           to
           discern
           the
           truth
           of
           that
           which
           is
           offered
           ,
           then
           others
           can
           do
           ,
           that
           are
           either
           so
           far
           engaged
           unto
           the
           Road-way
           ,
           that
           they
           will
           not
           think
           of
           any
           better
           
           Course
           to
           be
           taken
           ;
           or
           suspect
           all
           New
           Designes
           as
           light
           Projects
           of
           unsetled
           braines
           :
           but
           I
           hope
           Your
           Solid
           Judgement
           and
           large
           Experience
           of
           my
           constant
           behaviour
           will
           absolve
           me
           from
           the
           guilt
           of
           Levity
           ,
           in
           prosecuting
           all
           the
           Wayes
           whereby
           Learning
           may
           be
           advanced
           .
           Seeing
           it
           hath
           been
           a
           great
           part
           of
           my
           Study
           above
           these
           twenty
           years
           ;
           nor
           have
           I
           been
           alone
           in
           this
           Work
           ,
           but
           many
           others
           of
           great
           Worth
           and
           Abilities
           ,
           have
           been
           obliged
           to
           contribute
           their
           help
           unto
           me
           .
           Nor
           is
           it
           the
           Scope
           of
           this
           Treatise
           (
           wherein
           others
           speak
           more
           then
           I
           )
           so
           much
           to
           overthrow
           what
           is
           in
           use
           ,
           as
           to
           introduce
           a
           Better
           ,
           Easier
           ,
           and
           Readier
           Way
           of
           Teaching
           :
           But
           how
           to
           Introduce
           the
           Way
           which
           is
           here
           intimated
           into
           the
           Publique
           Schools
           of
           this
           Common-wealth
           ,
           will
           be
           a
           matter
           of
           further
           deliberation
           then
           is
           fit
           for
           me
           now
           to
           enter
           upon
           ;
           it
           may
           be
           hoped
           ,
           that
           the
           Honourable
           Committee
           for
           the
           Advancement
           of
           Learning
           ,
           will
           be
           inclined
           to
           reflect
           upon
           this
           matter
           ,
           and
           consider
           the
           feasablenesse
           thereof
           :
           and
           haply
           something
           as
           a
           Proposall
           in
           this
           Kinde
           may
           be
           offered
           unto
           them
           ;
           wherein
           Your
           Grave
           Recommendation
           to
           set
           their
           thoughts
           a working
           may
           have
           a
           special
           influence
           in
           due
           time
           ;
           Therefore
           ,
           lest
           I
           
           might
           seem
           at
           this
           time
           troublesome
           more
           then
           is
           needful
           ,
           I
           shall
           take
           my
           leave
           ,
           and
           humbly
           subscribe
           my self
           ver
           ,
        
         
           
             Your
             Honours
             most
             devoted
             and
             obliged
             Servant
             ,
             Samuel
             Hartlib
             .
          
        
      
       
       
         
           
             L.
             
               Verul
            
             in
             his
             Book
             of
             the
             Advancement
             of
             Learning
             .
          
        
         
           ALL
           those
           things
           are
           to
           be
           held
           possible
           and
           performable
           ,
           which
           may
           be
           accomplisht
           by
           some
           Persons
           ,
           though
           not
           by
           every
           one
           ;
           and
           which
           may
           be
           done
           by
           the
           united
           labours
           of
           many
           ,
           though
           not
           by
           any
           one
           apart
           ;
           and
           which
           may
           be
           finisht
           by
           the
           Publique
           Care
           and
           Charge
           ,
           though
           not
           by
           the
           Ability
           and
           Industry
           of
           Particular
           Persons
           .
        
      
    
     
       
       
         
           THE
           True
           and
           Ready
           Way
           to
           learn
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           expressed
           in
           an
           
             Epistolary
             Discourse
          
           of
           
             Eilhardus
             Lubinus
             ,
          
           before
           his
           New
           Edition
           of
           the
           
             New
             TESTAMENT
             .
          
        
         
           To
           The
           most
           Illustrious
           and
           High
           Prince
           ,
           and
           Lord
           
             PHILIP
             ,
          
           Duke
           of
           the
           
             Stetinenses
             ,
             Pomerans
             ,
             Cassubians
             ,
          
           and
           
             Vandals
             :
          
           Prince
           of
           
             Rugia
             :
          
           Earl
           of
           
             Gutzcow
             :
          
           Lord
           of
           
             Lowenburg
             ,
          
           and
           
             Butow
             ;
          
           My
           very
           Good
           LORD
           ;
           Grace
           and
           peace
           in
           
             CHRIST
             JESUS
             .
          
        
         
           I
           Shall
           endeavour
           ,
           most
           Illustrious
           Prince
           ,
           and
           my
           singular
           good
           Lord
           ,
           to
           perform
           that
           in
           this
           my
           Preliminarie
           Epistle
           ,
           prefixed
           to
           this
           New
           Edition
           of
           the
           New
           Testament
           ,
           which
           I
           promised
           a
           great
           while
           ago
           ,
           in
           matter
           of
           my
           Judgement
           or
           Advice
           ,
           such
           as
           it
           is
           ;
           touching
           a
           certain
           Ready
           and
           Short
           Way
           and
           Course
           ,
           whereby
           the
           younger
           sort
           may
           seeme
           to
           be
           in
           a
           possibility
           of
           being
           brought
           to
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           without
           either
           great
           labour
           or
           long
           time
           .
           Any
           honest
           man
           knowes
           he
           is
           bound
           to
           make
           good
           to
           every
           private
           person
           ,
           though
           never
           
           so
           mean
           ,
           those
           things
           which
           he
           hath
           undertoo●●
           how
           much
           more
           may
           I
           conceive
           my self
           obliged
           to
           such
           a
           Prince
           !
           whom
           ,
           even
           for
           his
           excellent
           Vertue
           and
           rare
           Learning
           in
           such
           a
           Fortune
           ,
           all
           the
           learned
           Common-wealths
           ,
           throughout
           the
           whole
           Christian
           World
           ,
           do
           admire
           and
           reverence
           .
           And
           seeing
           I
           am
           not
           ignorant
           of
           what
           I
           promised
           your
           Highnesse
           ;
           and
           how
           free
           I
           have
           been
           in
           my
           promises
           ;
           there
           remains
           ,
           it
           should
           seem
           nothing
           else
           for
           me
           ,
           but
           either
           to
           perform
           my
           promises
           ,
           and
           indeed
           to
           perform
           them
           so
           ,
           as
           may
           prove
           satisfactory
           to
           my
           promising
           ,
           and
           your
           Highnesse's
           expectation
           ;
           or
           to
           run
           the
           hazard
           of
           that
           thing
           with
           your
           Highnesse
           ,
           which
           is
           to
           every
           good
           and
           discreet
           man
           most
           precious
           .
           For
           since
           it
           would
           be
           very
           heavie
           to
           me
           to
           incur
           with
           any
           other
           the
           brand
           of
           vanity
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           of
           rashnesse
           ;
           how
           much
           heavier
           would
           it
           be
           to
           me
           to
           undergo
           the
           suspicion
           of
           that
           fault
           with
           your
           Highnesse
           ?
           And
           to
           whose
           most
           sound
           judgement
           bred
           ,
           increased
           ,
           and
           confirmed
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           Humane
           Arts
           and
           Learning
           ,
           I
           attribute
           so
           much
           ;
           that
           while
           I
           here
           publickly
           expose
           this
           Counsell
           of
           mine
           ,
           concerning
           the
           matter
           propounded
           ,
           to
           so
           many
           judgements
           of
           Learned
           men
           ,
           which
           I
           easily
           foresee
           will
           not
           be
           alike
           right
           and
           candid
           in
           all
           ,
           and
           whilest
           among
           all
           the
           learned
           Princes
           of
           all
           
             Germany
             ,
          
           I
           make
           cho●●●
           of
           You
           out
           of
           the
           number
           of
           them
           all
           ,
           as
           the
           Prince
           and
           Leader
           for
           the
           onely
           and
           sole
           Patron
           of
           this
           my
           undertaking
           :
           I
           see
           I
           must
           take
           pains
           herein
           chiefly
           ,
           first
           of
           all
           to
           approve
           this
           my
           cause
           to
           him
           in
           whom
           I
           reverently
           seek
           ,
           and
           by
           Gods
           help
           may
           finde
           defence
           and
           Patronage
           thereunto
           ;
           and
           to
           whom
           ,
           if
           I
           shall
           ,
           as
           I
           humbly
           hope
           ,
           make
           good
           proof
           thereof
           ,
           I
           shall
           be
           the
           surer
           of
           many
           others
           ,
           and
           put
           my self
           to
           lesse
           care
           and
           trouble
           :
           
             which
             same
          
           yet
           I
           friendly
           beseech
           ,
           whoever
           of
           them
           shall
           vouchsafe
           to
           read
           and
           consider
           with
           me
           those
           things
           which
           I
           propose
           ,
           that
           whatever
           they
           are
           like
           to
           be
           ,
           
             
               
                 Explorata
                 priùs
                 quàm
                 sint
                 ,
                 damnata
                 relinquant
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 They
                 would
                 be
                 pleased
                 not
                 to
                 passe
                 their
                 doome
                 ,
              
               
                 Untill
                 they
                 fully
                 to
                 a
                 triall
                 come
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           I
           know
           well
           what
           hath
           befallen
           others
           ,
           promising
           such
           matters
           as
           these
           ,
           and
           what
           doth
           daily
           betide
           men
           indeed
           of
           no
           small
           note
           ,
           and
           how
           exceeding
           hard
           it
           is
           to
           pacifie
           those
           Dictators
           and
           Monarchs
           of
           Schools
           ,
           who
           crave
           to
           be
           heard
           alone
           touching
           these
           businesses
           ,
           and
           in
           affairs
           of
           this
           nature
           ;
           and
           who
           are
           of
           opinion
           ,
           that
           the
           task
           of
           censuring
           is
           assigned
           to
           them
           onely
           :
           As
           those
           be
           like
           ,
           who
           have
           either
           been
           otherwise
           instructed
           in
           Schools
           themselves
           by
           their
           Masters
           ,
           when
           they
           were
           formerly
           
           Scholars
           ;
           or
           because
           they
           themselves
           ,
           being
           now
           Masters
           ,
           teach
           their
           Scholars
           otherwise
           of
           their
           own
           accord
           .
           
             
               
                 
                   Et
                   qui
                   turpe
                   putant
                   parêre
                   minoribus
                   ,
                   &
                   quae
                
              
               
                 
                   Imberbes
                   didicêre
                   ,
                   senes
                   perdenda
                   fateri
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
                 And
                 yielding
                 to
                 inferiours
                 ,
                 count
                 a
                 shame
                 ,
              
               
                 And
                 that
                 their
                 age
                 ,
                 what
                 youth
                 learn'd
                 ,
                 should
                 disclaim
                 ,
              
            
          
        
         
           Who
           also
           
             mete
          
           all
           things
           by
           the
           measure
           of
           their
           own
           private
           judgement
           ,
           and
           do
           sentence
           whatsoever
           is
           not
           agreeable
           thereto
           ,
           absurd
           and
           impossible
           ;
           not
           taking
           into
           their
           consideration
           ,
           that
           many
           New
           things
           are
           found
           out
           daily
           (
           though
           these
           things
           are
           even
           ancient
           ,
           and
           obvious
           to
           any
           one
           that
           makes
           enquiry
           )
           and
           that
           one
           may
           finde
           out
           more
           things
           then
           another
           ,
           but
           not
           any
           one
           man
           all
           .
           Therefore
           he
           ,
           voluntarily
           laies
           himselfe
           open
           to
           be
           exploded
           with
           their
           hisses
           ,
           or
           torne
           with
           their
           bites
           ,
           or
           stabb'd
           with
           their
           writings
           ,
           whosoever
           in
           this
           Scholastical
           Common-wealth
           doth
           never
           so
           little
           remove
           their
           Statutes
           ,
           or
           hath
           not
           their
           Edicts
           and
           Ordinances
           in
           sacred
           esteem
           .
           Neverthelesse
           ,
           I
           have
           adventured
           by
           Gods
           guidance
           ,
           and
           favourable
           assistance
           ,
           and
           trusting
           to
           ,
           and
           relying
           upon
           your
           Patronage
           ,
           most
           High
           Prince
           ,
           who
           are
           his
           Deputy
           or
           Vice-gerent
           ,
           for
           the
           helping
           the
           Learned
           Common-wealth
           ,
           and
           herein
           sacred
           Divinity
           especially
           ,
           in
           this
           last
           and
           festered
           age
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           sick
           of
           so
           many
           diseases
           and
           maladies
           ,
           and
           herein
           out
           of
           love
           and
           affection
           to
           the
           Tongues
           now
           a dying
           ,
           and
           even
           now
           almost
           extinct
           ,
           not
           onely
           to
           set
           forth
           this
           New
           Edition
           of
           the
           New
           Testament
           ,
           and
           that
           at
           my
           own
           pains
           and
           charges
           (
           when
           none
           of
           the
           Book-sellers
           now
           mainly
           busied
           in
           thrusting
           out
           worldly
           trifles
           ,
           would
           bestow
           the
           cost
           upon
           this
           Work
           )
           whereby
           together
           with
           Piety
           ,
           and
           the
           Words
           of
           eternal
           life
           ,
           three
           Tongues
           ,
           either
           alone
           ,
           or
           compared
           with
           one
           another
           ,
           may
           be
           readily
           read
           ,
           and
           learned
           under
           one
           labour
           ;
           and
           in
           a
           manner
           at
           once
           :
           But
           also
           to
           expose
           to
           the
           judgements
           of
           the
           more
           learned
           this
           my
           Advice
           about
           learning
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           set
           before
           this
           Edition
           of
           the
           New
           Testament
           ;
           out
           of
           a
           very
           good
           aime
           and
           endeavour
           of
           my
           minde
           (
           which
           he
           knows
           ,
           from
           whom
           nothing
           is
           concealed
           )
           and
           I
           would
           to
           God
           with
           successe
           and
           an
           event
           answerable
           thereunto
           :
           and
           this
           ,
           questionlesse
           ,
           to
           be
           exploded
           by
           many
           ,
           to
           be
           entertained
           by
           few
           ,
           and
           perhaps
           by
           none
           :
           Whom
           yet
           let
           me
           wish
           so
           long
           to
           suspend
           and
           forbear
           their
           approbation
           or
           dislike
           ,
           till
           this
           my
           Invention
           ,
           whether
           
           it
           be
           gold
           ,
           or
           lead
           ,
           or
           even
           clay
           ,
           when
           it
           is
           tried
           by
           the
           accurate
           examination
           of
           experience
           ,
           may
           either
           prove
           and
           manifest
           its
           integrity
           ,
           and
           be
           received
           ;
           or
           bewray
           his
           vanity
           ,
           and
           then
           at
           last
           be
           hissed
           out
           with
           its
           Authour
           .
           Nor
           do
           I
           desire
           any
           thing
           more
           ,
           then
           that
           God
           would
           stir
           up
           some
           Patron
           of
           Learning
           and
           the
           Tongues
           ,
           who
           would
           vouchsafe
           to
           make
           triall
           of
           this
           matter
           ;
           which
           very
           thing
           ,
           if
           I
           shall
           attain
           ,
           I
           shall
           think
           I
           have
           got
           a
           very
           worthy
           recompence
           and
           reward
           for
           this
           my
           own
           (
           call
           it
           as
           you
           will
           )
           diligence
           or
           lazinesse
           .
           And
           though
           this
           very
           thing
           ,
           whatever
           it
           be
           ,
           is
           not
           conceived
           or
           brought
           forth
           by
           me
           just
           at
           this
           time
           ;
           forasmuch
           as
           I
           have
           been
           in
           travail
           with
           this
           conceit
           in
           my
           minde
           now
           for
           this
           eighteen
           years
           and
           more
           ;
           yet
           not
           even
           now
           ,
           whilst
           I
           am
           delivered
           of
           it
           fearfully
           and
           anxiously
           ,
           had
           it
           seemed
           to
           me
           mature
           for
           the
           birth
           .
           
             
               
                 Et
                 quod
                 prodiret
                 dias
                 in
                 luminis
                 auras
              
               
                 Dignum
                 —
              
            
             
               
                 And
                 that
                 which
                 should
                 deserve
                 by
                 proper
                 right
                 ,
              
               
                 To
                 come
                 abroad
                 into
                 the
                 open
                 light
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           If
           I
           had
           not
           thought
           it
           might
           be
           timely
           set
           against
           Barbarisme
           now
           coming
           on
           ,
           and
           the
           overthrow
           of
           Learning
           and
           the
           Tongues
           ;
           for
           resisting
           which
           ,
           this
           appears
           to
           be
           the
           onely
           fence
           and
           remedie
           ,
           which
           is
           left
           :
           if
           I
           had
           not
           likewise
           begun
           to
           have
           proof
           of
           the
           certainty
           hereof
           by
           the
           Example
           of
           some
           at
           home
           ;
           if
           I
           had
           not
           ,
           lastly
           ,
           seen
           other
           very
           excellent
           men
           promise
           things
           of
           like
           sort
           ,
           with
           whom
           I
           dare
           be
           bold
           to
           undergo
           with
           so
           much
           the
           more
           confidence
           this
           common
           hazard
           .
           And
           whose
           wholesome
           and
           rare
           Inventions
           touching
           this
           matter
           ,
           although
           I
           do
           not
           disallow
           ,
           nor
           remain
           ignorant
           thereof
           ,
           in
           that
           I
           have
           conferred
           at
           large
           about
           this
           thing
           already
           ,
           two
           years
           ago
           with
           one
           of
           the
           chief
           of
           them
           ,
           my
           old
           friend
           ,
           and
           a
           very
           excellent
           man
           at
           
             Franckford
          
           at
           the
           
             Main
             ;
          
           and
           then
           also
           laid
           open
           to
           him
           my
           intent
           of
           setting
           out
           these
           things
           ;
           yet
           I
           divulge
           here
           none
           of
           those
           businesses
           which
           were
           invented
           by
           him
           ,
           and
           I
           hitherto
           not
           published
           ,
           but
           leave
           them
           safe
           and
           sound
           to
           their
           Authour
           .
           And
           here
           onely
           put
           forth
           those
           things
           which
           have
           already
           afore-hand
           been
           devised
           by
           me
           ,
           touching
           the
           same
           ,
           which
           ,
           if
           they
           may
           sometimes
           chance
           to
           be
           compared
           together
           with
           the
           Inventions
           of
           others
           ,
           it
           will
           not
           be
           haply
           unprofitable
           .
           For
           whether
           they
           agree
           with
           them
           ,
           their
           consent
           will
           be
           beneficiall
           ;
           or
           whether
           they
           disagree
           ,
           their
           comparing
           may
           
           be
           of
           use
           .
           And
           which
           things
           ,
           such
           as
           they
           are
           ,
           both
           learned
           men
           will
           judge
           ,
           and
           Reason
           ,
           being
           Umpire
           ,
           will
           shew
           ;
           and
           Experience
           ,
           which
           I
           principally
           wish
           ,
           being
           the
           discoverer
           ,
           will
           declare
           .
           There
           are
           Two
           things
           ,
           which
           it
           stands
           me
           in
           hand
           to
           demonstrate
           ,
           being
           about
           to
           expose
           my
           Counsel
           or
           Advice
           touching
           the
           learning
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           .
           The
           first
           is
           ,
           that
           that
           common
           Way
           of
           learning
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           which
           is
           hitherto
           used
           in
           Schools
           ,
           is
           clogged
           with
           much
           labour
           ,
           wearisomnesse
           ,
           and
           difficulty
           .
           The
           other
           is
           ,
           that
           another
           plainer
           ,
           readier
           ,
           and
           shorter
           Way
           for
           the
           leading
           to
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           may
           not
           onely
           be
           made
           ;
           but
           that
           we
           should
           also
           enquire
           ,
           explain
           ,
           and
           shew
           what
           that
           is
           ,
           or
           peradventure
           may
           be
           .
           Now
           whether
           this
           way
           be
           found
           out
           by
           me
           ,
           Learned
           men
           will
           judge
           ,
           and
           Experience
           it self
           ,
           which
           I
           do
           wish
           ,
           will
           descry
           .
           Surely
           ,
           if
           I
           should
           affirm
           that
           I
           have
           not
           been
           the
           hindermost
           amongst
           them
           ,
           who
           have
           sought
           or
           enquried
           for
           it
           ,
           I
           should
           not
           lie
           .
           My
           endevours
           upon
           
             Plautus
             ,
          
           the
           Prince
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           will
           witnesse
           ,
           which
           I
           assayed
           now
           twenty
           years
           ago
           to
           translate
           into
           our
           own
           native
           Germane
           ,
           or
           Dutch
           language
           ,
           that
           it
           might
           answer
           word
           for
           word
           ,
           the
           Germane
           or
           High
           Dutch
           put
           under
           the
           Latine
           ,
           a
           in
           this
           Edition
           of
           the
           Testament
           :
           And
           a
           Grammatical
           Book
           ,
           into
           which
           are
           heaped
           together
           all
           the
           words
           of
           all
           the
           Latine
           tongue
           ,
           being
           brought
           into
           their
           ranks
           ,
           and
           fitted
           to
           their
           precepts
           and
           rules
           :
           And
           a
           Book
           which
           I
           have
           entituled
           ,
           
             A
             Key
             to
             the
             Greek
             Tongue
             ,
          
           and
           my
           Paraphrases
           of
           the
           three
           Satyrists
           ,
           wherein
           I
           have
           inserted
           the
           Poets
           words
           ;
           which
           very
           thing
           likewise
           I
           have
           endeavoured
           in
           the
           Paraphrase
           of
           the
           New
           Testament
           ,
           with
           certain
           other
           things
           ,
           which
           as
           yet
           lie
           hid
           at
           my
           house
           among
           my
           papers
           or
           Note-books
           ;
           In
           which
           surely
           ,
           if
           I
           have
           not
           found
           ▪
           I
           have
           surely
           sought
           certain
           short
           Cuts
           ,
           or
           advantageous
           Courses
           for
           the
           overcoming
           of
           many
           and
           great
           difficulties
           .
           For
           now
           a
           long
           time
           ,
           and
           for
           many
           years
           this
           thought
           hath
           come
           into
           my
           minde
           ,
           and
           busied
           ,
           and
           troubled
           me
           ,
           what
           should
           be
           the
           Reason
           ,
           that
           when
           all
           other
           Tongues
           ,
           even
           those
           ,
           which
           not
           onely
           have
           nothing
           common
           with
           our
           German
           Speech
           ,
           as
           the
           Spanish
           and
           Italian
           ;
           but
           those
           also
           in
           whose
           pronunciation
           we
           ,
           Germanes
           ,
           finde
           by
           experience
           the
           greatest
           hardship
           ,
           as
           be
           the
           Polonian
           and
           the
           French
           ,
           may
           in
           some
           reasonable
           sort
           be
           learned
           by
           many
           Germans
           in
           two
           ,
           or
           to
           be
           sure
           ,
           in
           three
           years
           space
           ,
           yea
           ,
           out
           of
           
             Spain
             ,
             Italy
             ,
             France
             ,
             Poloniae
             ,
          
           in
           
             Germany
          
           it self
           ,
           in
           the
           Schools
           even
           of
           private
           Masters
           :
           Onely
           these
           Three
           Tongues
           ,
           Latine
           ,
           Greek
           ,
           and
           Hebrew
           ,
           in
           which
           the
           holy
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           Humane
           Learning
           ,
           Faculties
           ,
           Arts
           and
           Sciences
           are
           
           either
           extant
           in
           writing
           ,
           or
           are
           taught
           and
           learned
           by
           Interpreters
           ,
           are
           learned
           in
           so
           long
           a
           space
           of
           lifes
           time
           ,
           and
           with
           such
           miserable
           paines
           both
           to
           the
           Teacher
           and
           Learner
           that
           some
           there
           are
           ,
           who
           being
           spent
           and
           wearied
           out
           with
           the
           tediousnesse
           and
           impatience
           of
           so
           wretched
           a
           teaching
           ,
           do
           begin
           to
           hate
           and
           forsake
           the
           study
           of
           Learning
           :
           others
           ,
           who
           persevere
           ,
           can
           hardly
           be
           brought
           thither
           before
           they
           be
           eighteen
           ,
           or
           even
           twenty
           years
           of
           age
           ,
           so
           as
           they
           can
           scantly
           at
           last
           with
           much
           ado
           sobbingly
           and
           stammeringly
           utter
           a
           few
           Latine
           words
           ,
           who
           the
           mean
           time
           scarce
           so
           much
           as
           slightly
           touch
           the
           Greek
           or
           Hebrew
           Tongues
           .
           And
           which
           thing
           is
           to
           be
           the
           more
           admired
           ,
           and
           hath
           seemed
           to
           me
           no
           other
           then
           monstrous
           ,
           inasmuch
           as
           I
           am
           verily
           perswaded
           of
           this
           ,
           (
           and
           whereof
           neither
           any
           that
           is
           well
           in
           his
           wits
           ,
           I
           think
           ,
           will
           ever
           make
           doubt
           )
           that
           these
           three
           Tongues
           have
           nothing
           peculiar
           and
           proper
           over
           other
           Tongues
           ,
           whereby
           they
           cannot
           be
           learned
           as
           well
           as
           others
           ,
           by
           Use
           ,
           Custome
           ,
           and
           Exercise
           .
           Yea
           ,
           which
           formerly
           Infants
           and
           Children
           learned
           ;
           the
           Romanes
           or
           Latines
           ,
           the
           Romane
           or
           Latine
           ;
           the
           Greeks
           ,
           the
           Greek
           ;
           the
           Hebrews
           ,
           the
           Hebrew
           ,
           to
           whom
           these
           Tongues
           were
           proper
           and
           naturall
           ,
           together
           with
           the
           milk
           of
           their
           Mother
           or
           Nurse
           from
           their
           Mothers
           ,
           Nurses
           ,
           Keepers
           that
           bare
           them
           about
           ,
           School-masters
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           liv'd
           in
           their
           houses
           ,
           by
           Use
           and
           Custome
           ,
           just
           as
           our
           Infants
           and
           Children
           do
           learn
           their
           Mother
           ,
           own-Countrey
           Germane
           Tongue
           .
           Which
           three
           Tongues
           also
           others
           ,
           to
           whom
           they
           were
           not
           Countreyly-peculiar
           ,
           could
           long
           since
           learn
           by
           Custome
           and
           Use
           in
           two
           years
           ,
           certainly
           ,
           that
           we
           may
           allow
           them
           so
           much
           time
           ,
           as
           may
           be
           enough
           and
           too
           much
           in
           three
           years
           space
           .
           For
           the
           Romanes
           or
           Latines
           learned
           the
           Greek
           Tongue
           at
           
             Athens
             ;
          
           and
           the
           Greeks
           ,
           the
           Latine
           at
           
             Rome
             ;
          
           and
           both
           these
           Greeks
           and
           Romanes
           ,
           the
           Hebrew
           Tongue
           among
           the
           Jews
           in
           
             Palestine
             ;
          
           as
           the
           Jews
           on
           the
           other
           part
           learned
           in
           
             Greece
          
           and
           
             Italy
          
           the
           Greek
           or
           Latine
           Tongue
           by
           Use
           and
           Custome
           ,
           which
           very
           thing
           whosoever
           shall
           consider
           with
           me
           more
           accurately
           ,
           he
           cannot
           doubtlesse
           chuse
           but
           grant
           that
           some
           Means
           and
           Way
           may
           be
           found
           out
           ,
           whereby
           these
           Three
           Tongues
           ,
           as
           formerly
           they
           could
           be
           learned
           by
           Use
           ,
           and
           Custome
           in
           a
           shorter
           space
           of
           time
           ,
           even
           as
           other
           Tongues
           are
           learned
           ,
           so
           they
           may
           yet
           be
           learned
           .
           Now
           touching
           the
           vulgar
           Way
           of
           instructing
           Children
           in
           Schools
           ,
           though
           even
           I
           my self
           have
           sometime
           ,
           being
           a
           young
           Scholar
           at
           School
           ,
           undergone
           it
           ,
           and
           growen
           further
           into
           years
           have
           discharged
           it
           ,
           being
           appointed
           a
           School-master
           and
           Tutor
           for
           the
           teaching
           of
           the
           younger
           sort
           ,
           (
           indeed
           not
           without
           both
           very
           great
           irksomnesse
           
           somnesse
           of
           life
           and
           losse
           of
           time
           )
           to
           speak
           what
           I
           think
           ,
           yea
           ,
           as
           the
           matter
           is
           ,
           being
           indifferent
           what
           ever
           others
           are
           ready
           to
           think
           or
           speak
           to
           the
           contrary
           ,
           it
           seems
           to
           me
           to
           be
           such
           ,
           and
           so
           introduced
           into
           Schools
           ,
           just
           as
           if
           one
           out
           of
           hired
           pains
           and
           study
           had
           been
           commanded
           to
           devise
           some
           Mean
           or
           way
           ,
           whereby
           Masters
           and
           Scholars
           too
           ,
           might
           bring
           ,
           and
           be
           brought
           on
           to
           the
           knowledge
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           not
           without
           huge
           labours
           ,
           great
           weariness
           ,
           infinite
           toils
           ;
           and
           finally
           ,
           not
           without
           a
           very
           long
           interval
           and
           space
           of
           time
           .
           
             
               
                 Quae
                 quoties
                 repeto
                 ,
                 vel
                 iniquâ
                 mente
                 revolve
                 ,
              
               
                 Concutior
                 toties
                 ,
                 penitísque
                 horresco
                 medullis
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Which
                 while
                 I
                 sean
                 ,
                 or
                 griev'd
                 to
                 minde
                 recall
                 ,
              
               
                 I
                 shake
                 with
                 fear
                 ,
                 and
                 do
                 a
                 trembling
                 fall
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           In
           the
           first
           place
           the
           precepts
           of
           Grammar
           are
           so
           many
           times
           in
           a
           manner
           increased
           ,
           so
           oft
           changed
           ,
           as
           often
           as
           a
           new
           Moderatour
           is
           put
           in
           authority
           for
           the
           School
           ,
           and
           who
           except
           he
           brings
           something
           that
           is
           new
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           alter
           the
           old
           ,
           he
           may
           seem
           perhaps
           the
           less
           learned
           to
           himself
           in
           his
           own
           judgement
           .
           Certainly
           as
           oft
           as
           a
           youth
           goes
           away
           from
           one
           School
           to
           another
           ,
           so
           often
           is
           his
           old
           Grammar
           to
           be
           unlearned
           ,
           and
           a
           new
           one
           to
           be
           learned
           .
           By
           which
           things
           the
           tender
           mindes
           of
           the
           younger
           sort
           are
           not
           onely
           hindered
           and
           troubled
           ,
           but
           also
           that
           Golden
           age
           is
           both
           worn
           out
           and
           tormented
           .
           And
           I
           pray
           you
           what
           end
           and
           measure
           is
           there
           of
           these
           kinde
           of
           Rules
           or
           Precepts
           ?
           when
           as
           there
           are
           now
           every where
           found
           more
           Grammatical
           Books
           in
           Schools
           ,
           then
           there
           are
           Schools
           themselves
           well
           neer
           or
           upon
           the
           matter
           ,
           forasmuch
           as
           they
           are
           oftentimes
           changed
           in
           one
           School
           .
           And
           when
           all
           is
           done
           ,
           what
           else
           is
           this
           Grammatical
           teaching
           ,
           but
           a
           stoppage
           and
           let
           to
           studies
           ,
           but
           a
           wastful
           spoiler
           of
           childish
           ,
           yea
           ,
           of
           youthful
           age
           ,
           but
           a
           hanging
           ,
           like
           torture
           of
           an
           ingenuous
           minde
           or
           disposition
           ,
           but
           lastly
           ,
           a
           driver
           away
           of
           the
           best
           wits
           out
           of
           Schools
           ?
           and
           whereon
           hitherto
           ,
           to
           the
           unvaluable
           and
           irrecoverable
           hurt
           and
           damage
           of
           mans
           whole
           life
           ,
           which
           is
           so
           short
           and
           so
           fleeting
           ,
           is
           bestowed
           all
           that
           space
           of
           child-hood
           ,
           stripling-age
           ,
           yea
           truly
           in
           many
           ,
           even
           of
           their
           youthful
           estate
           to
           the
           20th
           .
           year
           &
           upwards
           ,
           That
           most
           pleasant
           Spring
           of
           a
           mans
           whole
           life
           ,
           and
           whose
           untouched
           flowers
           ,
           and
           tenderest
           roses
           these
           most
           crabbed
           ,
           and
           to
           ingenuous
           and
           noble
           mindes
           most
           unpleasing
           and
           formidable
           petty
           precepts
           of
           Grammar
           do
           crop
           and
           pluck
           off
           ,
           and
           whereof
           anon
           there
           is
           no
           more
           use
           :
           which
           a
           
           little
           after
           are
           no
           more
           to
           be
           practised
           or
           mentioned
           ,
           but
           to
           be
           left
           off
           and
           committed
           to
           oblivion
           .
           And
           yet
           in
           learning
           which
           ,
           yea
           ,
           in
           learning
           them
           by
           heart
           ,
           and
           presently
           in
           unlearning
           them
           so
           many
           years
           hath
           been
           bestowed
           and
           set
           over
           upon
           their
           accompt
           ;
           as
           with
           which
           they
           might
           have
           learned
           these
           three
           Tongues
           ,
           and
           have
           been
           brought
           on
           to
           the
           Principles
           and
           Foundations
           of
           Arts
           ,
           and
           Faculties
           .
           Which
           things
           whilst
           I
           have
           often
           weighed
           and
           considered
           ,
           I
           have
           been
           moved
           ,
           I
           confess
           more
           then
           once
           to
           think
           ,
           and
           perswade
           my self
           verily
           they
           were
           brought
           into
           Schools
           at
           first
           from
           some
           evill
           and
           envious
           
             Genius
             ,
          
           being
           an
           enemy
           to
           Mankinde
           ,
           by
           the
           means
           of
           certain
           unlucky
           Monkes
           .
           There
           is
           moreover
           another
           calamity
           not
           much
           inferiour
           to
           the
           former
           :
           Scholars
           ought
           to
           love
           their
           Masters
           as
           their
           own
           Parents
           ;
           forasmuch
           as
           even
           they
           themselves
           are
           Parents
           ,
           not
           of
           bodies
           ,
           but
           of
           mindes
           .
           Now
           these
           for
           the
           most
           part
           they
           hate
           and
           fear
           ,
           yea
           oftentimes
           they
           dread
           and
           tremble
           at
           as
           Tyrants
           ,
           and
           their
           tormenting
           Executioners
           ,
           being
           formidable
           for
           their
           rods
           and
           lashes
           ,
           or
           jerks
           .
           All
           this
           mischief
           is
           due
           well
           nigh
           to
           the
           inculcating
           of
           Grammatical
           precepts
           .
           Which
           according
           to
           this
           vulgar
           way
           of
           teaching
           Children
           in
           Schools
           ,
           are
           wholly
           to
           be
           inculcated
           into
           boyes
           ,
           nor
           can
           they
           be
           inculcated
           ,
           or
           put
           into
           their
           heads
           ,
           but
           by
           blowes
           and
           stripes
           ;
           because
           of
           what
           things
           Childrens
           age
           is
           not
           yet
           capable
           ,
           those
           things
           is
           naturally
           refuseth
           and
           disdaines
           .
           Now
           what
           and
           how
           great
           a
           calamity
           of
           Masters
           ,
           and
           likewise
           of
           Scholars
           is
           this
           ?
           the
           most
           boyes
           hate
           Schools
           ,
           as
           houses
           of
           Correction
           ,
           scourging
           places
           ,
           or
           meer
           whipping
           posts
           ,
           and
           scarce
           ever
           come
           at
           them
           of
           their
           own
           accord
           ,
           where
           this
           teaching
           of
           Children
           is
           used
           as
           a
           medicine
           of
           mindes
           to
           unwilling
           and
           forced
           Scholars
           by
           their
           Masters
           whom
           they
           fly
           and
           hatefully
           abhor
           .
           A
           sick
           person
           is
           scarce
           ever
           restored
           to
           his
           health
           by
           a
           Physician
           whom
           he
           hates
           ;
           confidence
           indeed
           of
           the
           ones
           good
           will
           towards
           the
           other
           can
           only
           do
           this
           .
           Now
           this
           is
           sometimes
           wholly
           banished
           out
           of
           Schools
           ,
           both
           by
           the
           Teachers
           and
           the
           Learners
           ,
           through
           that
           common
           teaching
           ,
           whereby
           the
           Grammar
           is
           inculcated
           ,
           which
           cannot
           chuse
           but
           make
           Masters
           themselves
           austere
           ,
           harsh
           and
           erabbed
           ,
           while
           they
           are
           enjoyned
           to
           do
           that
           ,
           by
           which
           violence
           is
           offered
           to
           boyish
           age
           ,
           and
           that
           which
           is
           contrary
           ,
           bad
           and
           hurtfull
           to
           nature
           .
           For
           boyes
           are
           bid
           to
           apprehend
           those
           things
           ,
           whereof
           that
           age
           is
           not
           yet
           capable
           ;
           and
           are
           commanded
           to
           learn
           those
           things
           without
           book
           ,
           
             
               
                 Tanquam
                 ungues
                 digitosque
                 suos
                 —
              
            
             
             
               
                 And
                 to
                 their
                 coming
                 so
                 their
                 mindes
                 do
                 bend
                 ,
              
               
                 As
                 they
                 may
                 have
                 them
                 at
                 their
                 fingers
                 end
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           Whose
           use
           is
           shewn
           to
           them
           very
           slowly
           and
           sparingly
           ,
           scarce
           in
           a
           most
           long
           space
           of
           time
           in
           those
           few
           Examples
           .
           And
           to
           which
           Precepts
           Masters
           so
           oblige
           and
           binde
           their
           Scholars
           and
           themselves
           ;
           as
           if
           it
           were
           a
           thing
           impossible
           ,
           that
           they
           should
           know
           and
           be
           able
           to
           speak
           ought
           in
           Latine
           ,
           except
           it
           be
           also
           added
           according
           to
           what
           Precepts
           of
           Grammar
           ,
           or
           Rules
           of
           
             Syntax
             ,
          
           that
           may
           be
           so
           spoken
           aright
           according
           to
           Art
           .
           Whereupon
           it
           often
           happens
           that
           even
           Masters
           themselves
           cannot
           speak
           readily
           .
           He
           shall
           never
           speak
           promptly
           ,
           and
           with
           expedition
           ,
           or
           quickly
           ,
           who
           hath
           tied
           and
           fettered
           himself
           with
           these
           Rules
           of
           Grammar
           .
           I
           have
           sometime
           laught
           at
           a
           dancing
           boy
           at
           
             Collen
             ,
          
           who
           from
           a
           continuall
           Exercise
           of
           dancing
           had
           got
           him
           a
           kinde
           of
           habit
           ,
           and
           from
           thence
           would
           now
           and
           then
           unawares
           as
           he
           was
           walking
           seriously
           in
           the
           streets
           ,
           begin
           to
           dance
           ;
           for
           as
           he
           treading
           daily
           according
           to
           the
           measures
           and
           orders
           of
           dancings
           had
           contracted
           this
           to
           himself
           ;
           so
           these
           while
           they
           are
           bound
           onely
           to
           the
           Rules
           and
           Lawes
           of
           Grammar
           ,
           nor
           handle
           almost
           any
           thing
           else
           then
           Rules
           or
           Precepts
           ,
           and
           are
           more
           exercised
           in
           the
           Precepts
           of
           Art
           ,
           then
           in
           the
           Use
           and
           Examples
           of
           Precepts
           ,
           they
           themselves
           will
           scarce
           ever
           learn
           to
           speak
           readily
           or
           teach
           others
           .
           I
           could
           shew
           this
           by
           memorable
           Examples
           ,
           were
           they
           not
           over-odious
           and
           too
           unworthy
           to
           be
           well
           brought
           to
           this
           place
           .
           To
           speak
           onely
           of
           Scholars
           ,
           I
           saw
           a
           gentile
           youth
           of
           a
           brave
           towardlinesse
           ,
           already
           seventeen
           years
           old
           ,
           or
           more
           ,
           for
           the
           trying
           of
           whose
           proficiency
           and
           benefiting
           in
           studies
           I
           my self
           with
           some
           others
           was
           made
           use
           of
           .
           He
           under
           his
           Master
           had
           learned
           exactly
           at
           the
           fingers
           end
           the
           Precepts
           or
           Rules
           of
           Grammar
           ,
           together
           with
           the
           Examples
           which
           were
           added
           to
           the
           Precepts
           ,
           but
           he
           could
           not
           rehearse
           them
           otherwise
           then
           Parats
           ,
           
             illud
             suum
          
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           ,
           that
           all
           hail
           ,
           God
           save
           you
           ,
           or
           forme
           of
           salutation
           of
           theirs
           ,
           or
           then
           Pies
           or
           Crowes
           recite
           mens
           words
           .
           For
           he
           knew
           neither
           the
           Use
           of
           Rules
           nor
           Examples
           ,
           but
           committed
           all
           things
           to
           memory
           at
           the
           command
           of
           his
           Master
           ,
           as
           if
           it
           were
           enough
           to
           learn
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           to
           repeat
           the
           Rules
           of
           Grammar
           which
           thou
           doest
           not
           understand
           ,
           or
           of
           whose
           use
           thou
           art
           ignorant
           ;
           for
           scarce
           could
           he
           combine
           or
           put
           together
           three
           or
           four
           Latine
           words
           stumblingly
           or
           stutteringly
           ,
           as
           if
           he
           were
           troubled
           with
           the
           hichet
           or
           yexing
           .
           Who
           will
           ever
           make
           question
           that
           he
           might
           ,
           in
           that
           golden
           time
           ,
           wherein
           lie
           wore
           out
           the
           flower
           of
           his
           
           youthfull
           age
           in
           those
           unhappy
           and
           unprofitable
           Precepts
           ,
           have
           been
           able
           to
           have
           learned
           three
           or
           four
           Tongues
           ,
           if
           he
           had
           used
           due
           Meanes
           to
           that
           End
           ,
           and
           had
           had
           right
           teaching
           ?
           Masters
           in
           teaching
           these
           Rules
           ,
           and
           Scholars
           in
           learning
           do
           in
           the
           Schools
           most
           miserably
           tire
           and
           vex
           themselves
           lean
           with
           labours
           ,
           wearisomnesses
           ,
           and
           toilsome
           cares
           more
           heavie
           then
           death
           ;
           and
           with
           which
           ,
           as
           Histories
           tell
           us
           ,
           
             Dionysius
          
           the
           Sicilian
           Tyrant
           was
           very
           well
           punished
           at
           
             Corinth
             ,
          
           where
           ,
           when
           he
           was
           deprived
           of
           his
           Kingdome
           ,
           he
           set
           up
           a
           Grammar-School
           ;
           and
           from
           whence
           the
           Satyrist
           not
           without
           great
           reason
           exclaimes
           ,
           
             
               
                 
                   Occidit
                   miseros
                   Crambe
                   repetita
                   Magistros
                   ,
                
              
               
                 
                   Nam
                   quaecunque
                   sedens
                   modò
                   dixerat
                   ,
                   haec
                   eadem
                   stans
                
              
               
                 
                   Proferet
                   ,
                   atque
                   eadem
                   cantabit
                   versibus
                   iisdem
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
                 Twice
                 boiled
                 Colewort
                 doth
                 poor
                 Masters
                 slay
                 ,
              
               
                 For
                 what
                 but
                 newly
                 he
                 did
                 sitting
                 say
                 ,
              
               
                 The
                 same
                 he
                 standing
                 doth
                 relate
                 ,
                 and
                 sings
                 ,
              
               
                 In
                 the
                 same
                 verses
                 just
                 those
                 very
                 things
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           Whereupon
           it
           's
           no
           marvell
           indeed
           that
           School-Masters
           grow
           hard
           to
           please
           ,
           austere
           ,
           crabbed
           ,
           and
           way-ward
           ,
           and
           thrust
           all
           the
           most
           excellent
           wits
           out
           of
           Schools
           ,
           which
           the
           nobler
           and
           the
           better
           they
           be
           ,
           the
           more
           impatient
           they
           are
           of
           this
           servile
           teaching
           in
           Schools
           ;
           yea
           moreover
           ,
           so
           great
           are
           the
           troubles
           which
           Masters
           have
           in
           Schools
           ,
           so
           great
           are
           their
           labours
           ,
           if
           they
           desire
           to
           be
           faithful
           and
           diligent
           ,
           that
           
             Hercules
          
           could
           scarcely
           ,
           if
           the
           fable
           were
           true
           ,
           be
           put
           to
           more
           in
           cleansing
           King
           
             Augeas
          
           stable
           .
           And
           which
           labours
           are
           yet
           as
           little
           set
           by
           by
           the
           most
           ;
           forasmuch
           as
           so
           small
           and
           mean
           a
           stipend
           is
           setled
           thereupon
           for
           such
           immense
           toile
           and
           pains
           taking
           :
           and
           whose
           labours
           ,
           if
           they
           were
           to
           be
           recompensed
           and
           requited
           with
           their
           due
           reward
           and
           wages
           ,
           a
           double
           ,
           threefold
           ,
           yea
           ,
           a
           four-fold
           greater
           stipend
           or
           allowance
           ought
           to
           be
           setled
           upon
           them
           .
           Which
           very
           thing
           proceeds
           from
           this
           occasion
           chiefly
           ,
           because
           by
           so
           laborious
           ,
           and
           (
           to
           say
           the
           truth
           )
           so
           preposterous
           a
           teaching
           through
           the
           inculcating
           of
           Grammar-rules
           ,
           Masters
           profit
           so
           little
           in
           so
           long
           a
           time
           by
           teaching
           ,
           and
           Scholars
           by
           learning
           .
           And
           though
           by
           these
           Grammar
           Rules
           so
           often
           changed
           many
           blocks
           and
           impediments
           are
           laid
           in
           the
           way
           of
           youthful
           age
           ;
           yet
           could
           they
           be
           made
           never
           so
           exact
           ,
           to
           which
           nothing
           could
           be
           further
           added
           ,
           and
           from
           which
           nothing
           could
           be
           any
           more
           diminished
           ;
           were
           there
           also
           order
           taken
           by
           the
           Emperours
           
           Edict
           ,
           that
           there
           should
           not
           a
           jot
           of
           them
           be
           changed
           ,
           and
           that
           these
           Rules
           or
           Precepts
           should
           be
           commonly
           propounded
           in
           all
           Schools
           ,
           neverthelesse
           could
           I
           hereby
           think
           that
           the
           teaching
           of
           Children
           were
           provided
           for
           sufficiently
           .
           Because
           that
           these
           Rules
           even
           ,
           whatever
           they
           may
           come
           to
           at
           length
           ,
           do
           not
           suit
           with
           Childrens
           age
           .
           For
           this
           is
           in
           all
           teaching
           to
           be
           regarded
           above
           all
           things
           ,
           that
           the
           teaching
           of
           them
           who
           are
           to
           be
           taught
           ,
           be
           fitted
           to
           their
           capacity
           ;
           and
           from
           the
           unobserving
           whereof
           ,
           all
           this
           mischief
           in
           Schools
           hitherto
           seems
           to
           have
           been
           bred
           and
           sprung
           up
           .
           Now
           what
           ,
           and
           how
           monstrous
           an
           absurdity
           is
           it
           ,
           to
           propound
           those
           things
           to
           childish
           age
           ,
           for
           the
           perceiving
           whereof
           it
           is
           not
           yet
           capable
           ?
           and
           to
           require
           of
           Children
           ,
           that
           they
           accomodate
           or
           apply
           words
           of
           Art
           to
           the
           termes
           and
           names
           of
           Things
           ,
           and
           to
           propound
           to
           Children
           
             Entia
             Rationis
             ,
          
           barely
           devised
           Beings
           ,
           and
           Words
           of
           a
           second
           Notion
           or
           intention
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           called
           who
           know
           not
           as
           yet
           Things
           ,
           and
           the
           names
           of
           Things
           ,
           
             Entia
             primae
             Intentionis
             ,
          
           or
           Beings
           ,
           whose
           meaning
           is
           to
           be
           first
           understood
           :
           and
           to
           bid
           them
           give
           an
           account
           ,
           why
           they
           speak
           Latine
           right
           ,
           before
           they
           can
           in
           any
           wise
           speak
           properly
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           ,
           before
           they
           have
           knowledge
           of
           the
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           ?
           Right
           as
           if
           one
           should
           ask
           a
           Countreyman
           the
           reason
           ,
           why
           the
           Loadstone
           drawes
           iron
           ,
           before
           he
           know
           it
           drawes
           it
           ;
           or
           one
           that
           's
           unskill'd
           in
           
             Mathematicks
             ,
          
           why
           in
           a
           Triangle
           three
           Angles
           are
           equall
           to
           two
           straight
           ones
           ,
           before
           he
           know
           that
           it
           is
           so
           .
           For
           neither
           is
           it
           possible
           for
           these
           boyes
           hitherto
           to
           know
           any
           word
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           Noun
           ,
           or
           Verb
           ,
           unlesse
           they
           know
           before
           ,
           or
           together
           ,
           what
           Figure
           ,
           Case
           ,
           Mood
           ,
           Tense
           ,
           Person
           ,
           &c.
           every
           one
           of
           them
           is
           ;
           to
           learn
           any
           Phrase
           ,
           any
           Sentence
           ,
           unlesse
           before
           or
           together
           they
           be
           able
           to
           give
           an
           account
           ,
           by
           what
           Rule
           of
           the
           
             Syntax
          
           they
           may
           speak
           so
           after
           this
           ,
           and
           not
           after
           another
           manner
           .
           All
           which
           things
           are
           contrived
           and
           appointed
           to
           this
           intent
           ,
           that
           a
           boy
           first
           learn
           the
           terms
           of
           Art
           ,
           before
           he
           learn
           the
           names
           of
           Things
           .
           In
           the
           abridgments
           of
           the
           Grammar
           ,
           which
           are
           commonly
           used
           amongst
           us
           ,
           there
           are
           reckoned
           an
           hundred
           and
           fourscore
           words
           of
           Art
           and
           above
           ;
           in
           the
           
             Syntax
          
           seventy
           and
           more
           Rules
           ,
           with
           as
           many
           Exceptions
           ;
           and
           most
           of
           which
           are
           so
           obscure
           ,
           that
           they
           can
           scant
           be
           understood
           by
           those
           of
           greater
           age
           ,
           who
           are
           already
           well
           grown
           ,
           and
           more
           forward
           in
           judgement
           and
           learning
           .
           Now
           what
           else
           are
           all
           these
           things
           at
           last
           ,
           but
           so
           many
           Impediments
           and
           Hinderances
           to
           Childrens
           age
           ;
           yea
           ,
           so
           many
           Mischiefs
           and
           Gallowses
           set
           up
           for
           the
           same
           ,
           so
           many
           trifling
           lets
           and
           incumbrances
           ,
           with
           which
           boyes
           are
           deteined
           and
           
           troubled
           in
           the
           same
           fashion
           that
           little
           young
           chickens
           are
           fettered
           with
           the
           intanglements
           of
           womens
           hairs
           thrown
           out
           a
           doors
           ,
           and
           wrapped
           about
           ▪
           their
           legs
           ?
           Verily
           ,
           as
           if
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           neither
           could
           ,
           nor
           ought
           to
           be
           learned
           ,
           save
           with
           main
           and
           lamentable
           labour
           ,
           and
           so
           great
           a
           losse
           of
           youthfull
           age
           .
           Now
           if
           anyone
           ask
           touching
           such
           words
           of
           Art
           any
           of
           our
           Countrey-men
           in
           our
           own
           Germane
           Tongue
           ,
           which
           we
           have
           learned
           without
           any
           Precepts
           ,
           by
           Use
           onely
           ,
           and
           demand
           a
           Reason
           ,
           why
           we
           speak
           in
           our
           Tongue
           after
           this
           ,
           and
           not
           another
           manner
           ?
           he
           might
           well
           be
           judged
           to
           be
           mad
           ,
           as
           one
           who
           doth
           not
           rest
           contented
           with
           the
           common
           Use
           and
           Custome
           of
           speaking
           ,
           
             
               
                 Quem
                 penes
                 arbitrium
                 est
                 ,
                 &
                 jus
                 ,
                 &
                 norma
                 lequendi
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Whose
                 meer
                 arbitrament
                 ,
                 and
                 powerfull
                 sway
                 ,
              
               
                 Both
                 Lawes
                 and
                 Rules
                 of
                 Language
                 do
                 obay
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           And
           which
           is
           the
           most
           certain
           Umpire
           ,
           Mistress
           ,
           and
           Judge
           above
           or
           beyond
           all
           exception
           ,
           but
           craves
           a
           reason
           ,
           why
           we
           speak
           on
           this
           wise
           ?
           to
           know
           which
           ,
           there
           is
           no
           need
           at
           all
           .
           But
           if
           upon
           this
           condition
           onely
           men
           were
           to
           be
           esteemed
           to
           have
           good
           knowledge
           and
           skill
           in
           the
           Latine
           speech
           ,
           so
           far
           forth
           as
           they
           know
           these
           words
           of
           Art
           ,
           and
           are
           able
           to
           accomodate
           them
           to
           their
           speech
           ,
           not
           so
           much
           ,
           forsooth
           ,
           as
           
             Varro
          
           the
           most
           learned
           of
           the
           Latines
           ,
           nor
           
             Plautus
          
           the
           Prince
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           should
           be
           thought
           to
           have
           spoke
           Latine
           ,
           who
           were
           perhaps
           ignorant
           ,
           and
           no
           doubt
           very
           learnedly
           ignorant
           of
           these
           words
           of
           Art
           ,
           with
           wich
           boyes
           are
           tortured
           .
           If
           one
           were
           desirous
           to
           teach
           an
           Insant
           to
           walk
           ,
           and
           should
           set
           him
           not
           onely
           upon
           slippery
           ice
           ,
           but
           likewise
           put
           upon
           his
           feet
           shoes
           laid
           with
           plates
           of
           most
           polisht
           iron
           ,
           and
           moreover
           apply
           stilts
           to
           his
           feet
           also
           ;
           and
           were
           desirous
           first
           to
           teach
           him
           to
           go
           artificially
           ,
           before
           he
           can
           go
           even
           naturally
           ,
           and
           on
           any
           fashion
           :
           he
           would
           be
           accounted
           indeed
           no
           other
           then
           stark
           srantick
           .
           They
           truly
           in
           myopinion
           have
           long
           since
           been
           taken
           with
           the
           like
           madnes
           ,
           who
           first
           of
           all
           brought
           into
           Schools
           this
           already
           for
           so
           many
           ages
           used
           way
           of
           teaching
           boyes
           by
           Rules
           and
           Precepts
           .
           And
           far
           madder
           then
           which
           hitherto
           were
           those
           ,
           who
           propounded
           to
           boyes
           the
           Precepts
           of
           Grammar
           ,
           obscure
           in
           themselves
           ,
           and
           besides
           that
           ,
           inclosed
           in
           Verses
           ,
           in
           Verses
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           so
           obscure
           ,
           as
           may
           seem
           even
           to
           us
           who
           are
           further
           ,
           grown
           in
           years
           ,
           to
           stand
           in
           need
           of
           some
           
             Oedipus
          
           to
           understand
           them
           .
           Whereunto
           belong
           also
           those
           so
           many
           other
           
             Compendium
             's
          
           devised
           by
           many
           ,
           and
           those
           
           which
           are
           accumulated
           every
           day
           more
           then
           other
           :
           And
           those
           which
           are
           devised
           indeed
           out
           of
           a
           good
           intendment
           and
           endeavour
           ,
           but
           prove
           very
           unhappy
           in
           the
           event
           :
           so
           as
           those
           
             Compendium's
          
           or
           near
           Cuts
           are
           found
           by
           meer
           Use
           to
           be
           no
           other
           then
           
             Dispendium's
          
           ,
           or
           a
           long
           way
           about
           and
           Impediments
           of
           youthful
           age
           .
           I
           saw
           one
           who
           went
           about
           to
           reduce
           all
           the
           Rules
           of
           the
           
             Syntax
          
           into
           seven
           or
           fewer
           ,
           which
           in
           our
           vulgar
           or
           ordinary
           Books
           are
           found
           to
           be
           seventy
           and
           more
           ;
           who
           while
           he
           laboured
           to
           avoid
           prolixity
           ,
           fell
           into
           obscurity
           .
           When
           at
           length
           after
           full
           sore
           labours
           and
           infinite
           tediousnesse
           ,
           they
           are
           brought
           not
           as
           boyes
           or
           striplings
           ,
           but
           as
           young
           men
           ,
           to
           that
           passe
           ,
           that
           they
           can
           make
           Latine
           on
           any
           sort
           ,
           according
           to
           those
           so
           oft
           augmented
           and
           altered
           Rules
           and
           Precepts
           of
           Grammar
           ,
           and
           can
           ,
           as
           the
           saying
           is
           ,
           swim
           without
           a
           bark
           ,
           and
           are
           brought
           on
           to
           read
           Authours
           ,
           they
           themselves
           now
           begin
           to
           speak
           Latine
           without
           any
           aid
           of
           Grammaticall
           Precepts
           :
           and
           here
           by
           and
           by
           again
           forget
           these
           very
           Grammaticall
           Precepts
           ,
           which
           they
           learned
           being
           boyes
           and
           striplings
           with
           grievous
           labour
           ,
           of
           which
           truly
           there
           is
           not
           ,
           as
           hath
           been
           aforesaid
           ,
           any
           more
           Use
           .
           Now
           then
           how
           inestimable
           a
           losse
           is
           it
           ,
           to
           bestow
           twelve
           ,
           nay
           fifteen
           years
           upon
           those
           things
           ,
           and
           to
           weare
           out
           the
           most
           precious
           time
           of
           life
           in
           learning
           them
           without
           Book
           ,
           which
           are
           a
           while
           after
           to
           be
           unlearned
           ,
           certainly
           to
           be
           forgotten
           ,
           and
           by
           them
           to
           hinder
           the
           towardly
           growth
           of
           a
           tender
           wit
           ;
           by
           them
           to
           offend
           and
           afllict
           ;
           yea
           ,
           to
           break
           and
           weaken
           it
           ,
           whereof
           that
           age
           is
           not
           yet
           capable
           ,
           and
           which
           are
           afterwards
           unprofitable
           ,
           and
           which
           are
           to
           be
           of
           that
           esteem
           those
           matters
           are
           of
           ,
           which
           we
           never
           learned
           ?
           What
           should
           I
           say
           ?
           that
           these
           Precepts
           likely
           within
           a
           little
           while
           to
           be
           unprofitable
           are
           throughly
           learned
           by
           School
           boyes
           ,
           no
           otherwise
           ;
           nor
           are
           they
           any
           otherwise
           exacted
           ,
           then
           if
           they
           were
           the
           Oracles
           of
           God
           ,
           without
           which
           we
           can
           neither
           be
           well
           here
           ,
           nor
           hereafter
           .
           To
           which
           furthermore
           may
           be
           added
           the
           mention
           of
           Masters
           ,
           who
           require
           that
           to
           these
           Grammar-rules
           their
           own
           Dictates
           and
           Precepts
           be
           well
           learned
           :
           and
           in
           the
           learning
           whereof
           ,
           if
           boyes
           do
           but
           stick
           never
           so
           little
           ,
           or
           stumble
           at
           them
           ,
           presently
           comes
           the
           Rod
           and
           lash
           in
           use
           .
           For
           hence
           it
           falls
           out
           that
           to
           Masters
           themselves
           ,
           as
           
             Diogenes
          
           said
           ,
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           ;
           &
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           ,
           Scholar
           like
           become
           choler-like
           employments
           ;
           and
           hearing
           ,
           grow
           wearing
           places
           :
           that
           the
           School
           to
           learners
           of
           an
           ingenuous
           sport
           becomes
           a
           Gallows-like
           torture
           due
           to
           slavish
           Malefactors
           .
           And
           that
           servile
           fear
           which
           boys
           get
           in
           Schools
           from
           this
           teaching
           ,
           sticks
           by
           many
           all
           their
           life
           long
           I
           knew
           a
           certain
           man
           ,
           who
           devoutly
           
           and
           solemnly
           affirm'd
           to
           me
           ,
           he
           learn'd
           the
           Grammar
           &
           the
           Latin
           tongue
           at
           School
           under
           so
           harsh
           &
           severe
           Masters
           ,
           that
           he
           oftentimes
           after
           he
           was
           grown
           to
           mans
           estate
           thought
           in
           his
           dreams
           he
           still
           lived
           &
           trembled
           under
           his
           jerking
           Master
           .
           Now
           how
           much
           better
           were
           it
           to
           teach
           boys
           in
           an
           ingenuous
           School
           with
           moderation
           and
           fair
           dealing
           ,
           and
           to
           bring
           good
           wits
           to
           the
           study
           of
           the
           liberall
           Arts
           ,
           not
           servilely
           ,
           but
           courteously
           and
           tenderly
           ?
           For
           what
           is
           thus
           learned
           ,
           is
           welcome
           to
           nature
           ,
           and
           takes
           better
           and
           firmer
           hold
           ;
           whereas
           on
           the
           contrary
           whatsoever
           is
           violent
           goes
           against
           nature
           ,
           and
           but
           seldome
           continues
           or
           lasts
           long
           .
           Whereto
           likewise
           accrues
           this
           mischief
           no
           lesse
           then
           the
           former
           ,
           that
           young
           Scholars
           when
           they
           have
           scarcely
           with
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           labour
           learned
           a
           few
           Latine
           names
           and
           words
           ,
           they
           have
           eft-soones
           exercises
           set
           them
           ,
           which
           are
           to
           translate
           Dutch
           into
           Latine
           :
           that
           is
           ,
           they
           are
           bid
           to
           make
           that
           which
           as
           yet
           they
           never
           conceiv'd
           .
           They
           would
           do
           far
           better
           and
           more
           handsomely
           ,
           if
           they
           were
           to
           turn
           things
           out
           of
           Latine
           into
           their
           own
           Dutch
           Tongue
           ,
           or
           were
           to
           expresse
           and
           construe
           Latine
           in
           Dutch
           .
           For
           into
           what
           Tongue
           any
           one
           desires
           to
           translate
           another
           tongue
           ,
           and
           by
           what
           Tongue
           as
           an
           Interpreter
           any
           one
           hath
           a
           minde
           to
           learn
           any
           other
           Tongue
           ,
           that
           Tongue
           which
           he
           useth
           by
           way
           of
           interpretation
           ought
           to
           be
           very
           well
           known
           unto
           him
           .
           Now
           what
           absurdity
           is
           it
           to
           require
           of
           a
           boy
           to
           translate
           his
           Mother
           German
           tongue
           into
           Latine
           ,
           which
           he
           hath
           not
           yet
           learned
           ,
           but
           still
           learneth
           ?
           which
           truly
           seems
           alike
           absurd
           ;
           as
           if
           a
           Virgin
           were
           bid
           to
           bring
           forth
           children
           .
           And
           hence
           moreover
           is
           that
           foul
           matter
           ,
           that
           Barbarismes
           and
           Germanismes
           do
           every where
           stain
           the
           purity
           of
           Latine
           Speech
           ;
           to
           wit
           ,
           when
           boyes
           are
           commanded
           by
           their
           own
           proper
           invention
           ,
           or
           of
           their
           own
           heads
           to
           conjoyn
           terms
           and
           words
           collected
           out
           of
           
             Dasypodius
             ,
          
           Vocabulary
           
             Sylva's
          
           ,
           and
           Dictionaries
           according
           to
           the
           Precepts
           and
           Rules
           of
           Grammar
           ,
           and
           to
           forme
           or
           frame
           to
           themselves
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           according
           to
           the
           Precepts
           of
           Grammar
           by
           their
           own
           industry
           .
           Which
           when
           they
           are
           not
           drawn
           out
           of
           the
           full
           fountains
           of
           Latine
           ,
           nay
           of
           Romane
           Authours
           ,
           but
           out
           of
           shrunk-up
           ,
           dry
           ,
           and
           liquorlesse
           rivolets
           of
           the
           Latine
           ,
           and
           sometimes
           scarcely
           Latine
           Speech
           ;
           and
           that
           in
           a
           manner
           not
           by
           the
           guidance
           of
           Masters
           ,
           but
           by
           the
           unfortunate
           attempt
           of
           their
           very
           Scholars
           ;
           we
           need
           not
           go
           far
           to
           seek
           ,
           to
           say
           as
           
             Persius
          
           hath
           it
           ;
           
             
               
                 —
                 
                   Vnde
                   haec
                   sartago
                   loquendi
                
              
               
                 
                   Venerit
                   in
                   linguas
                   .
                
              
            
             
             
               
                 How
                 this
                 rude
                 kinde
                 of
                 speaking
                 first
                 began
                 ,
              
               
                 In
                 harsh
                 sounds
                 like
                 the
                 hissing
                 frying-pan
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           By
           what
           means
           comes
           in
           that
           unevenness
           of
           style
           among
           many
           ,
           in
           which
           one
           may
           every where
           meet
           with
           
             Barbarismes
             ,
             Germanismes
             ,
          
           and
           
             Solaecismes
             ,
          
           and
           wherein
           new
           words
           are
           coupled
           with
           those
           that
           are
           stale
           and
           out
           of
           use
           ,
           and
           ancient
           ones
           with
           such
           as
           are
           upstart
           and
           lately
           made
           ;
           rashly
           ,
           or
           by
           hab
           nab
           and
           without
           any
           judgement
           ;
           and
           in
           which
           there
           is
           nothing
           at
           all
           smooth
           ,
           but
           some
           such
           thing
           ,
           or
           not
           unlike
           it
           indeed
           ,
           as
           the
           
             Satyrist
          
           describes
           in
           the
           front
           of
           the
           Art
           of
           Poetry
           .
           And
           if
           any
           shall
           ask
           me
           ,
           since
           I
           mislike
           that
           usual
           and
           old
           way
           of
           teaching
           ,
           What
           other
           New
           One
           is
           it
           then
           ,
           which
           I
           can
           approve
           of
           ,
           or
           set
           forth
           ?
           I
           shall
           perhaps
           not
           absurdly
           give
           in
           that
           for
           an
           Answer
           here
           ,
           which
           he
           spoke
           :
           
             
               
                 Quos
                 fugiam
                 teneo
                 ,
                 quos
                 sequar
                 haud
                 video
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 I
                 know
                 full
                 well
                 whom
                 I
                 should
                 strive
                 to
                 flie
                 ,
              
               
                 But
                 whom
                 I
                 ought
                 to
                 follow
                 do
                 not
                 spie
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           Forasmuch
           as
           it
           is
           farre
           easier
           for
           me
           in
           this
           place
           to
           shew
           and
           confute
           things
           which
           are
           false
           and
           amiss
           ,
           then
           to
           affirm
           other
           that
           are
           better
           and
           righter
           .
           Howbeit
           I
           am
           already
           determined
           here
           to
           expose
           and
           set
           before
           the
           censures
           of
           good
           men
           ,
           what
           I
           think
           of
           this
           matter
           ,
           and
           what
           my
           meditations
           and
           thoughts
           have
           formerly
           been
           concerning
           it
           .
           And
           which
           whatsoever
           they
           are
           ,
           if
           Experience
           it self
           ,
           the
           touchstone
           for
           such
           businesses
           ,
           were
           applied
           to
           them
           ,
           and
           might
           render
           a
           proof
           of
           the
           things
           which
           I
           am
           about
           to
           tell
           ,
           I
           should
           be
           conceited
           it
           would
           go
           better
           with
           them
           .
           But
           if
           I
           have
           not
           yet
           found
           the
           most
           compendious
           way
           ,
           nevertheless
           ,
           I
           am
           confident
           and
           know
           these
           things
           whatever
           they
           are
           ,
           to
           be
           such
           ,
           as
           if
           any
           one
           vouchsafe
           to
           make
           trial
           of
           them
           ,
           they
           may
           serve
           ,
           as
           they
           say
           ,
           to
           break
           at
           first
           the
           ice
           of
           that
           difficulty
           ,
           wherewith
           Schools
           are
           hitherto
           incumbred
           .
           And
           who
           need
           make
           any
           doubt
           that
           more
           may
           be
           added
           daily
           to
           such
           Inventions
           ?
           Certainly
           the
           very
           Exercise
           and
           Use
           thereof
           will
           shew
           every
           day
           more
           things
           that
           it
           may
           at
           length
           (
           all
           obstacles
           being
           removed
           ,
           which
           have
           made
           this
           .
           Way
           unto
           honest
           and
           pious
           Arts
           and
           Learning
           hard
           to
           all
           ,
           and
           to
           many
           invincible
           )
           declare
           it selfe
           to
           be
           plain
           and
           ready
           .
           Yea
           ,
           if
           I
           shall
           seem
           perhaps
           to
           have
           propounded
           nothing
           ,
           
           which
           may
           be
           thought
           worth
           the
           labour
           ,
           I
           shall
           present
           at
           least
           an
           handle
           ,
           and
           an
           occasion
           to
           others
           either
           to
           enquire
           things
           not
           found
           out
           ,
           or
           to
           shevv
           things
           found
           out
           to
           every
           one
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           envy
           Mankinde
           that
           which
           God
           hath
           shewed
           them
           in
           the
           behalf
           of
           its
           welfare
           ,
           but
           to
           expose
           it
           to
           the
           whole
           World
           .
           For
           this
           is
           the
           nature
           of
           all
           good
           men
           to
           communicate
           to
           all
           ,
           for
           which
           things
           by
           how
           much
           the
           more
           and
           unto
           the
           more
           they
           are
           communicated
           ,
           by
           so
           much
           the
           more
           ,
           and
           the
           rather
           do
           they
           serve
           and
           suffice
           all
           .
           And
           now
           to
           begin
           from
           the
           first
           principlus
           of
           Reading
           ,
           and
           from
           the
           entrances
           and
           grounds
           of
           Letters
           ,
           I
           think
           a
           boy
           before
           the
           fifth
           or
           sixth
           year
           of
           his
           age
           ,
           according
           to
           those
           powers
           of
           towardnesse
           and
           wit
           ,
           which
           put
           forth
           themselves
           ,
           ought
           not
           to
           be
           put
           to
           this
           teaching
           :
           and
           that
           not
           onely
           for
           this
           Reason
           ,
           because
           that
           tender
           age
           being
           as
           it
           were
           a
           little
           tender
           branch
           ,
           but
           even
           newly
           shot
           out
           ,
           ought
           not
           to
           be
           swayed
           with
           this
           kinde
           of
           teaching
           (
           although
           it
           be
           likely
           to
           have
           little
           tediousnesse
           and
           trouble
           )
           as
           it
           were
           with
           a
           certain
           burthen
           :
           But
           also
           because
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           it
           ought
           to
           learn
           its
           own
           Countrey-language
           ,
           by
           which
           as
           an
           Interpreter
           it
           may
           learn
           the
           Latine
           the
           better
           and
           more
           fully
           .
           And
           with
           which
           Mother-tongue
           the
           fuller
           Children
           shall
           be
           indued
           ,
           the
           sooner
           will
           they
           profit
           in
           those
           things
           which
           I
           shall
           speak
           of
           .
           The
           mean
           while
           also
           that
           age
           being
           a
           little
           more
           confirmed
           ,
           will
           be
           the
           apter
           and
           sitter
           to
           receive
           Learning
           .
           For
           we
           must
           beware
           of
           these
           two
           things
           before
           all
           other
           in
           all
           teaching
           ,
           and
           in
           this
           especially
           ,
           that
           we
           offer
           not
           to
           poure
           a
           sirkin
           into
           him
           who
           can
           scarce
           take
           a
           spoonfull
           ;
           and
           that
           we
           lay
           not
           many
           pounds
           upon
           him
           who
           can
           scarcely
           bear
           a
           few
           drams
           :
           That
           we
           do
           not
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           rashly
           impose
           ought
           ,
           as
           't
           is
           done
           hitherto
           upon
           the
           age
           of
           Children
           ,
           which
           it
           may
           not
           be
           able
           to
           bear
           .
           The
           other
           is
           ,
           that
           all
           those
           things
           ,
           which
           are
           on
           this
           wise
           ,
           according
           to
           their
           capacity
           propounded
           to
           them
           ,
           be
           so
           imposed
           ,
           and
           so
           required
           of
           them
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           do
           nothing
           with
           an
           ill
           will
           ,
           by
           force
           and
           constraint
           ,
           but
           perform
           all
           things
           as
           far
           as
           may
           be
           ,
           freely
           ,
           and
           of
           their
           own
           accord
           ,
           with
           a
           certain
           ready
           willingnesse
           or
           delightfull
           desire
           of
           the
           minde
           .
           Whence
           I
           am
           verily
           of
           opinion
           ,
           that
           rods
           ,
           and
           strokes
           ,
           those
           servile
           instruments
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           do
           not
           well
           sort
           and
           agree
           with
           ingenuous
           natures
           ,
           ought
           not
           to
           be
           used
           in
           Schools
           ,
           but
           to
           be
           far
           removed
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           applied
           to
           slaves
           and
           naughty
           servants
           that
           are
           of
           a
           servile
           inclination
           :
           and
           such
           as
           in
           Schools
           timely
           bewray
           themselves
           by
           their
           own
           discovery
           ,
           and
           are
           timely
           to
           be
           removed
           thence
           ,
           not
           onely
           for
           the
           slownesse
           of
           disposition
           ,
           which
           is
           for
           the
           
           most
           part
           proper
           to
           servile
           natures
           ,
           but
           also
           for
           that
           shrewdnesse
           ,
           which
           is
           for
           the
           most
           part
           joyned
           with
           it
           :
           And
           to
           which
           if
           there
           be
           the
           addition
           of
           the
           helps
           of
           Learning
           and
           Arts
           ,
           they
           will
           be
           but
           turned
           into
           weapons
           of
           wickednesse
           ,
           and
           be
           swords
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           boyes
           ,
           yea
           of
           mad
           folks
           ,
           for
           to
           cut
           their
           own
           and
           others
           throats
           withall
           .
           But
           there
           are
           other
           kindes
           of
           punishments
           which
           would
           be
           made
           use
           of
           with
           ingenuous
           Children
           and
           liberall
           mindes
           ,
           and
           wherewith
           they
           are
           sorer
           punished
           ,
           and
           more
           cruelly
           vext
           ,
           then
           with
           any
           the
           sharpest
           and
           smartest
           lashes
           of
           rods
           .
           As
           for
           instance
           ,
           that
           those
           who
           do
           not
           as
           they
           should
           do
           ,
           who
           minde
           not
           what
           their
           Masters
           say
           unto
           them
           ,
           who
           obey
           not
           their
           Masters
           commands
           ,
           or
           are
           otherwise
           found
           too
           negligent
           and
           tardy
           ,
           or
           taken
           in
           ill
           and
           unhappy
           turnes
           ,
           be
           set
           either
           in
           the
           lowest
           place
           beneath
           all
           ,
           or
           be
           enjoyned
           while
           others
           sit
           to
           stand
           in
           some
           certain
           place
           set
           apart
           ,
           or
           severed
           from
           the
           other
           company
           for
           idle
           and
           lazy
           boyes
           ;
           or
           be
           made
           to
           wear
           some
           mark
           or
           ensigne
           of
           an
           asse
           ,
           upon
           their
           shoulders
           ,
           or
           to
           put
           on
           for
           a
           while
           the
           habit
           of
           a
           fool
           in
           a
           play
           ,
           or
           be
           punished
           with
           some
           such
           like
           kinde
           of
           penalties
           which
           the
           favourable
           discretion
           of
           School-masters
           may
           easily
           devise
           and
           finde
           out
           ,
           such
           a
           sort
           of
           punishment
           will
           not
           onely
           more
           grieve
           and
           fret
           to
           the
           heart
           generous
           and
           free
           natures
           ,
           then
           if
           they
           were
           tormented
           with
           the
           most
           exquisite
           dolours
           or
           pains
           of
           the
           body
           :
           but
           will
           also
           discern
           and
           distinguish
           them
           from
           servile
           dispositions
           .
           For
           whosoever
           shall
           set
           at
           naught
           or
           contemn
           this
           manner
           of
           punishment
           ,
           and
           is
           led
           neither
           with
           any
           sweetnesse
           of
           commendation
           ,
           nor
           offended
           at
           or
           moved
           with
           the
           bitternesse
           of
           dispraise
           :
           it
           's
           an
           argument
           of
           a
           dis-ingenuous
           inclination
           ,
           of
           an
           ignoble
           minde
           ;
           and
           whereof
           there
           can
           neither
           be
           any
           great
           hope
           or
           expectation
           to
           speak
           of
           ,
           conceived
           .
           And
           as
           the
           ser●ile
           and
           slothfull
           are
           to
           be
           discerned
           and
           restrained
           by
           such
           a
           kinde
           of
           punishment
           ;
           so
           contrariwise
           ,
           fiery
           ,
           forward
           ,
           and
           quick
           dispositions
           are
           still
           to
           be
           put
           on
           and
           further
           excited
           by
           more
           honourable
           places
           and
           higher
           formes
           :
           That
           those
           who
           approve
           their
           towardnesse
           or
           diligence
           above
           others
           to
           the
           Master
           ,
           may
           obtain
           likewise
           a
           more
           honourable
           or
           eminent
           place
           then
           the
           rest
           .
           Now
           what
           places
           are
           assigned
           to
           any
           one
           ,
           whether
           the
           highest
           of
           reward
           ,
           or
           the
           lowest
           in
           matter
           of
           punishment
           ,
           ought
           not
           to
           be
           assigned
           longer
           ,
           then
           any
           one
           shall
           deserve
           it
           either
           by
           naughtinesse
           and
           negligence
           ;
           or
           shall
           maintain
           and
           keep
           it
           by
           goodnesse
           and
           diligence
           .
           For
           so
           it
           will
           be
           ,
           that
           neither
           the
           first
           shall
           trust
           in
           this
           their
           degree
           of
           honour
           ,
           and
           as
           it
           comes
           to
           pass
           
           slack
           in
           their
           diligence
           ;
           nor
           the
           lowest
           despair
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           could
           not
           get
           out
           of
           the
           place
           of
           sluggards
           again
           by
           their
           diligence
           .
           Seeing
           both
           the
           foremost
           ,
           if
           they
           grow
           too
           negligent
           ,
           may
           by
           the
           hindemost
           ,
           being
           more
           diligent
           ,
           be
           cast
           dovvn
           from
           their
           upper
           degree
           ,
           and
           thrust
           out
           of
           their
           place
           ;
           that
           so
           the
           highest
           may
           be
           lovvest
           ;
           and
           again
           ,
           the
           lovvest
           and
           last
           by
           using
           of
           diligence
           and
           industry
           ,
           of
           the
           last
           may
           become
           the
           middlemost
           ,
           yea
           the
           highest
           .
           And
           better
           it
           vvere
           that
           there
           should
           be
           instituted
           such
           Exercises
           of
           a
           laudable
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           ,
           or
           desire
           of
           honour
           ,
           and
           nevv
           places
           allotted
           to
           one
           or
           other
           in
           reference
           to
           every
           ones
           diligence
           or
           negligence
           ,
           not
           every
           half
           year
           ,
           after
           the
           appointed
           Examinations
           ,
           as
           useth
           to
           be
           in
           our
           Schools
           but
           every
           week
           ,
           yea
           truly
           every
           day
           ,
           that
           so
           one
           after
           another
           might
           be
           stirred
           up
           and
           encouraged
           to
           diligence
           by
           this
           commendable
           Emulation
           and
           Ambition
           .
           Now
           to
           touch
           some
           few
           things
           by
           way
           of
           an
           Essay
           or
           fore-taste
           concerning
           the
           first
           Principles
           of
           Learning
           ,
           even
           the
           very
           Characters
           of
           Letters
           ,
           how
           these
           may
           be
           learned
           by
           a
           boy
           of
           five
           or
           six
           years
           of
           age
           compendiously
           without
           either
           long
           labour
           or
           time
           .
           Passing
           painful
           and
           tedious
           is
           that
           way
           which
           is
           brought
           into
           Schools
           ,
           and
           used
           hitherto
           ,
           when
           they
           learn
           out
           of
           A
           ,
           B
           ,
           C
           ,
           Books
           to
           know
           the
           Letters
           ,
           to
           put
           them
           together
           in
           syllables
           ,
           and
           to
           pronounce
           them
           ;
           and
           so
           in
           conclusion
           to
           read
           .
           For
           as
           to
           the
           knowing
           of
           the
           formes
           or
           shapes
           of
           Letters
           ,
           and
           the
           discerning
           of
           one
           from
           another
           ,
           that
           hardship
           may
           be
           overcome
           far
           more
           compendiously
           and
           easily
           ,
           if
           certain
           Instruments
           be
           made
           to
           represent
           every
           letter
           in
           its
           outward
           forme
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           may
           derive
           their
           names
           from
           severall
           letters
           .
           By
           which
           help
           Children
           may
           learn
           to
           know
           the
           Letters
           even
           a
           playing
           with
           one
           another
           ,
           out
           of
           doubt
           in
           a
           very
           few
           dayes
           .
           Now
           for
           these
           Letters
           ,
           to
           what
           Instruments
           and
           Images
           they
           are
           to
           be
           applied
           and
           expressed
           ,
           the
           Manner
           thereof
           hath
           been
           devised
           long
           since
           not
           unhandsomely
           .
           Now
           I
           do
           not
           here
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           cavils
           of
           the
           preposterously
           vvise
           ,
           set
           out
           this
           Manner
           or
           way
           ,
           seeing
           it
           contains
           many
           things
           ridiculous
           ,
           and
           vvhich
           are
           fitted
           to
           childrens
           age
           .
           Hovvbeit
           ,
           they
           are
           such
           as
           may
           have
           that
           of
           the
           Poet
           verified
           concerning
           them
           ,
           
             
               
                 Hae
                 nugae
                 in
                 seria
                 ducunt
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 These
                 petty
                 toyes
                 display
              
               
                 To
                 serious
                 things
                 a
                 vvay
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
         
           And
           may
           bring
           boyes
           even
           vvhile
           they
           be
           at
           their
           sports
           with
           incredible
           saving
           of
           time
           and
           labour
           thither
           ;
           vvhither
           they
           are
           brought
           both
           by
           the
           wofull
           labour
           of
           their
           Masters
           that
           teach
           ,
           and
           tediousnesse
           of
           the
           boyes
           that
           learn
           scarcely
           in
           a
           long
           time
           ,
           yea
           scarcely
           without
           rods
           and
           stripes
           .
           For
           visible
           Images
           or
           Resemblances
           of
           this
           sort
           running
           into
           the
           eyes
           ,
           fitted
           to
           the
           formes
           or
           fashions
           of
           Letters
           ,
           and
           marked
           with
           the
           names
           of
           Letters
           ,
           are
           far
           sooner
           and
           more
           thoroughly
           imprinted
           in
           the
           minde
           and
           memory
           of
           boyes
           ,
           and
           in
           their
           impression
           stick
           far
           more
           firmly
           and
           closely
           .
           For
           the
           tender
           mindes
           of
           younger
           ones
           do
           ask
           ;
           yea
           ,
           meer
           nature
           and
           humane
           reason
           doth
           require
           this
           ,
           that
           those
           things
           which
           ought
           to
           be
           comprehended
           by
           the
           minde
           in
           the
           treasury
           of
           the
           memory
           ,
           should
           be
           by
           some
           certain
           outward
           notes
           and
           figures
           ,
           as
           it
           were
           helps
           by
           the
           looking
           on
           of
           the
           eyes
           ,
           and
           the
           sense
           of
           seeing
           imprinted
           upon
           the
           understanding
           of
           the
           minde
           ,
           and
           on
           the
           memory
           by
           a
           stronger
           imagination
           ,
           because
           that
           ,
           as
           Naturalists
           know
           very
           well
           ,
           there
           can
           be
           nothing
           in
           the
           understanding
           ,
           which
           is
           not
           before
           in
           the
           sense
           .
           And
           as
           that
           which
           hath
           been
           in
           the
           sense
           is
           more
           notable
           ,
           or
           even
           more
           ridiculous
           ,
           so
           it
           strikes
           or
           stamps
           the
           imagination
           more
           strongly
           ,
           and
           imprints
           its
           forme
           upon
           the
           very
           memory
           more
           inwardly
           ,
           and
           so
           also
           sticks
           the
           surer
           and
           the
           longer
           in
           the
           memories
           treasury
           ,
           as
           't
           is
           known
           to
           those
           who
           professe
           an
           Artificiall
           Memory
           ,
           which
           is
           performed
           by
           images
           and
           places
           .
           As
           for
           example
           ,
           the
           letter
           L
           ,
           not
           the
           turn'd
           ,
           but
           the
           running
           one
           ,
           as
           it
           's
           called
           by
           Printers
           ,
           being
           made
           very
           exactly
           in
           wood
           or
           brasse
           ,
           is
           represented
           by
           that
           Instrument
           where
           with
           we
           measure
           linnen
           ,
           and
           cloth
           ,
           and
           other
           things
           .
           And
           that
           Instrument
           ,
           seeing
           it
           is
           called
           in
           our
           Countrey-Idiome
           or
           proper
           speech
           an
           Ell
           ,
           and
           is
           sufficiently
           known
           to
           boyes
           ,
           a
           man
           may
           easily
           bring
           it
           for
           to
           get
           the
           knowledge
           of
           the
           forme
           of
           the
           Letter
           L
           at
           once
           shewing
           ,
           or
           the
           first
           sight
           ,
           and
           to
           expresse
           the
           naming
           thereof
           .
           The
           same
           may
           be
           done
           in
           all
           the
           other
           letters
           ,
           to
           which
           no
           less
           remarkable
           Images
           ,
           for
           effecting
           the
           same
           thing
           ,
           may
           be
           accommodated
           .
           Now
           when
           by
           such
           like
           Images
           of
           creatures
           ,
           Instruments
           ,
           or
           most
           known
           Things
           ,
           and
           fitted
           to
           the
           letters
           ,
           figures
           ,
           and
           namings
           ,
           they
           have
           learned
           all
           the
           letters
           well
           ;
           those
           letters
           on
           some
           greater
           board
           or
           table
           being
           expressed
           in
           their
           own
           naturall
           Characters
           ought
           to
           be
           depainted
           ,
           and
           propounded
           so
           great
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           even
           be
           manifestly
           seen
           by
           all
           at
           a
           right
           distance
           ,
           and
           to
           which
           Letters
           those
           Images
           of
           living
           Creatures
           or
           Instruments
           ,
           (
           wherewith
           we
           said
           a
           little
           before
           the
           figures
           
           and
           names
           of
           letters
           were
           to
           be
           expressed
           )
           being
           already
           fore-known
           to
           Children
           ,
           ought
           to
           be
           put
           and
           fitted
           very
           close
           ,
           by
           this
           help
           a
           childe
           may
           easily
           learn
           to
           know
           the
           letters
           ,
           and
           to
           expresse
           every
           one
           by
           it's
           own
           name
           .
           Which
           thing
           when
           't
           is
           well
           done
           the
           order
           then
           of
           nature
           doth
           further
           require
           ,
           that
           after
           this
           apprehension
           of
           single
           Letters
           ,
           they
           learn
           to
           set
           them
           together
           ;
           and
           by
           sundry
           joynings
           together
           of
           letters
           ,
           to
           expresse
           all
           Syllables
           ,
           which
           may
           arise
           thence
           .
           Here
           now
           in
           some
           other
           greater
           Table
           those
           Letters
           ,
           together
           with
           those
           aforesaid
           Images
           ,
           being
           set
           over
           or
           above
           to
           the
           vowels
           ,
           and
           likewise
           to
           the
           consonants
           ,
           may
           be
           so
           disposed
           one
           with
           another
           in
           three
           lines
           ;
           as
           the
           consonants
           from
           
             b
          
           to
           
             m
             ,
          
           may
           be
           placed
           in
           the
           upper
           line
           ;
           the
           other
           consonants
           from
           
             n
          
           to
           
             z
             ,
          
           in
           the
           lower
           ,
           and
           the
           five
           vowels
           in
           the
           middle
           place
           between
           the
           consonants
           in
           the
           middle
           line
           .
           From
           which
           letters
           thus
           disposed
           or
           ordered
           ,
           and
           already
           known
           to
           Children
           ,
           School-masters
           shall
           be
           able
           to
           expresse
           any
           syllables
           whatsoever
           ,
           and
           to
           shew
           to
           children
           all
           the
           variety
           of
           syllables
           ,
           whether
           a
           Syllable
           consist
           of
           one
           letter
           being
           a
           vowel
           ,
           or
           of
           two
           ,
           
             viz.
          
           a
           vowel
           and
           a
           consonant
           ;
           or
           of
           three
           ,
           as
           of
           one
           vowel
           and
           of
           two
           or
           four
           ,
           or
           lastly
           of
           five
           consonants
           ▪
           That
           so
           a
           passage
           may
           be
           absolutely
           made
           through
           all
           the
           varieties
           of
           syllables
           ;
           and
           that
           no
           syllable
           resulting
           from
           the
           divers
           composition
           of
           the
           consonants
           in
           the
           first
           and
           third
           lines
           ,
           with
           the
           vowels
           in
           the
           middle
           line
           ,
           may
           in
           any
           wise
           be
           passed
           by
           untouched
           ,
           or
           not
           expressed
           ,
           whether
           a
           vowel
           occupy
           the
           first
           ,
           second
           ,
           third
           ,
           or
           fourth
           place
           in
           a
           syllable
           .
           And
           the
           Master
           with
           some
           little
           pointing-stick
           passing
           through
           all
           the
           variety
           of
           Syllables
           in
           the
           first
           ,
           second
           ,
           and
           third●
           line
           ,
           and
           laying
           it
           on
           every
           letter
           ,
           shall
           shew
           what
           letters
           are
           to
           be
           brought
           together
           into
           one
           syllable
           ,
           and
           shall
           exercise
           the
           Children
           for
           some
           certain
           dayes
           in
           the
           collecting
           of
           those
           letters
           into
           syllables
           .
           Which
           exercise
           shall
           teach
           Children
           more
           fully
           the
           names
           of
           the
           Letters
           ,
           when
           they
           are
           so
           often
           repeated
           ,
           together
           with
           those
           Images
           joyned
           thereto
           ,
           in
           which
           the
           formes
           ,
           and
           appellations
           ,
           or
           callings
           of
           the
           Letters
           are
           expressed
           .
           And
           this
           excercise
           may
           hold
           and
           last
           so
           long
           ,
           till
           such
           time
           as
           they
           shall
           come
           to
           know
           those
           Letters
           well
           ,
           whether
           vowels
           or
           consonants
           ,
           and
           also
           begin
           to
           understand
           ,
           what
           articulate
           voice
           the
           Letters
           joyned
           together
           among
           themseves
           into
           some
           syllable
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           uttered
           with
           one
           breath
           and
           a
           single
           sound
           ,
           may
           express
           .
           Now
           if
           this
           be
           not
           done
           in
           the
           space
           of
           a
           few
           weeks
           ,
           it
           shall
           be
           either
           long
           of
           the
           negligence
           and
           idlenesse
           of
           Masters
           ;
           or
           at
           least
           of
           the
           too
           
           gross
           dulness
           &
           stupidity
           of
           the
           boy
           ,
           which
           is
           to
           be
           taught
           .
           In
           which
           exercise
           ,
           while
           the
           Master
           is
           employed
           ,
           he
           shall
           especially
           indeavour
           this
           ,
           that
           all
           attend
           diligently
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           be
           every
           one
           set
           to
           the
           Table
           hung
           up
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           shew
           all
           the
           letters
           by
           putting
           the
           little
           stick
           or
           wand
           upon
           them
           ,
           or
           pronounce
           and
           expresse
           them
           ,
           being
           pointed
           out
           by
           the
           Master
           ;
           or
           else
           be
           punished
           in
           the
           manner
           before
           mentioned
           .
           For
           so
           it
           will
           come
           to
           pass
           ,
           that
           by
           one
           ,
           and
           that
           indeed
           an
           easie
           labour
           ,
           they
           may
           teach
           all
           ;
           whereas
           otherwise
           when
           they
           are
           driven
           to
           teach
           all
           ,
           
             viz.
          
           every
           one
           in
           their
           own
           A
           ,
           B
           ,
           C
           ,
           or
           Alphabeticall
           Books
           ,
           they
           must
           of
           necessity
           bestow
           and
           spend
           ten
           times
           more
           labour
           in
           teaching
           one
           ,
           then
           in
           this
           way
           which
           I
           have
           spoken
           of
           even
           in
           teaching
           an
           hundred
           ,
           or
           more
           together
           .
           Whereto
           also
           this
           is
           to
           be
           added
           ,
           that
           ,
           when
           so
           many
           ,
           being
           equals
           ,
           are
           taught
           together
           with
           one
           and
           the
           same
           labour
           ,
           they
           become
           inflamed
           and
           put
           into
           courage
           by
           the
           emulation
           of
           one
           another
           ,
           accounting
           it
           a
           shameful
           and
           base
           businesse
           for
           them
           to
           be
           out-gone
           and
           left
           behinde
           by
           their
           equals
           .
        
         
           When
           they
           have
           now
           well
           learned
           these
           Letters
           by
           these
           helps
           of
           Images
           ,
           and
           have
           begun
           to
           expresse
           Syllables
           in
           Letters
           joyned
           or
           put
           together
           ,
           on
           that
           manner
           as
           I
           have
           said
           ,
           now
           these
           aids
           of
           figments
           or
           imaginary
           devices
           being
           laid
           aside
           for
           one
           turn
           or
           two
           as
           yet
           ,
           in
           the
           manner
           formerly
           explained
           ;
           let
           there
           be
           a
           passing
           through
           all
           the
           varieties
           of
           Syllables
           ,
           that
           so
           they
           may
           learn
           to
           know
           the
           Letters
           placed
           on
           that
           wise
           alone
           ,
           and
           by
           themselves
           ,
           without
           such
           an
           Image
           ,
           and
           to
           expresse
           any
           one
           in
           it self
           ,
           and
           with
           others
           .
        
         
           Now
           that
           all
           things
           which
           appertain
           to
           Reading
           ,
           may
           be
           more
           fully
           and
           abundantly
           learned
           ,
           there
           are
           yet
           further
           two
           or
           more
           greater
           .
           Tables
           to
           be
           used
           ,
           wherein
           all
           the
           Syllables
           of
           two
           ,
           three
           ,
           four
           ,
           five
           ,
           or
           more
           Letters
           may
           be
           expressed
           ,
           not
           indeed
           as
           in
           the
           former
           Table
           ,
           in
           Letters
           severed
           or
           dis-joyned
           from
           one
           another
           ,
           and
           in
           three
           lines
           onely
           so
           disposed
           ,
           as
           they
           cannot
           but
           by
           the
           Masters
           guiding
           and
           shewing
           with
           a
           stick
           put
           thereon
           be
           brought
           into
           a
           Syllable
           ,
           but
           so
           as
           they
           may
           be
           seen
           expressed
           in
           letters
           ,
           joyned
           together
           one
           with
           another
           .
           And
           in
           these
           Tables
           ,
           let
           the
           very
           whole
           variety
           of
           Syllables
           ,
           none
           at
           all
           excepted
           ,
           be
           set
           expresly
           before
           the
           eyes
           in
           joyned
           letters
           .
           And
           let
           all
           and
           singular
           boyes
           ,
           without
           passing
           by
           any
           ,
           be
           set
           to
           these
           ▪
           in
           that
           order
           which
           shall
           seem
           fitting
           to
           their
           Masters
           ,
           and
           let
           them
           ,
           taking
           a
           twig
           into
           their
           hands
           ,
           note
           the
           several
           Letters
           which
           are
           to
           be
           joyned
           together
           in
           a
           syllable
           ,
           
           by
           putting
           it
           thereupon
           ,
           let
           them
           also
           expresse
           them
           with
           an
           articulate
           voice
           in
           all
           the
           Syllables
           ,
           to
           which
           the
           rest
           are
           to
           attend
           diligently
           .
           Whence
           truly
           it
           will
           fall
           out
           ,
           that
           in
           a
           little
           time
           both
           by
           their
           eyes
           and
           eares
           they
           may
           very
           fully
           perceive
           all
           the
           diversity
           and
           variety
           of
           the
           Letters
           either
           alone
           ,
           or
           joyned
           with
           others
           ;
           as
           likewise
           of
           Syllables
           ,
           of
           which
           those
           innumerable
           words
           in
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           
             viz.
          
           Nouns
           and
           Verbs
           are
           made
           up
           ;
           nor
           may
           there
           be
           any
           thing
           left
           ,
           which
           may
           in
           any
           sort
           further
           stop
           or
           hinder
           them
           in
           reading
           .
        
         
           When
           these
           foundations
           of
           Reading
           are
           on
           this
           manner
           well
           laid
           ,
           then
           a
           further
           progresse
           may
           be
           made
           to
           the
           exercise
           of
           Painting
           or
           Writing
           ,
           which
           thing
           is
           to
           be
           referred
           to
           the
           trust
           of
           faithfull
           Masters
           and
           Artists
           in
           that
           kinde
           ,
           who
           shall
           at
           first
           by
           few
           draughts
           of
           Characters
           shew
           the
           grounds
           of
           all
           the
           Letters
           ,
           and
           teach
           the
           Writing
           of
           them
           all
           easily
           and
           neatly
           .
        
         
           Now
           that
           we
           may
           come
           at
           last
           by
           Gods
           help
           to
           learn
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           compendiously
           ,
           and
           in
           as
           short
           a
           space
           of
           time
           as
           may
           be
           ;
           to
           it
           there
           seems
           &
           Twofold
           Course
           and
           Way
           may
           be
           taken
           and
           contrived
           .
           The
           one
           whereof
           is
           the
           surest
           and
           readiest
           ,
           by
           which
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           alone
           may
           be
           dispatched
           ,
           and
           whereof
           I
           shall
           give
           notice
           in
           a
           few
           words
           hereafter
           .
           The
           other
           is
           a
           little
           more
           painful
           ,
           and
           more
           cumbersome
           ,
           or
           ungain
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           our
           own
           Countrey-German-speech
           ,
           with
           which
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           either
           alwayes
           or
           for
           a
           while
           marches
           joyntly
           ,
           no
           otherwise
           then
           a
           Roman
           Matron
           with
           her
           German
           Interpreter
           ;
           yet
           it
           is
           four
           times
           ,
           as
           I
           relying
           on
           Gods
           assistance
           do
           verily
           perswade
           my self
           ,
           more
           ready
           or
           gainer
           then
           that
           wherewith
           Masters
           and
           Scholars
           macerate
           themselves
           hitherto
           in
           Schools
           .
        
         
           Now
           that
           which
           I
           signified
           a
           little
           before
           touching
           Reading
           ,
           that
           this
           tender
           age
           for
           the
           obtaining
           a
           speedier
           knowledge
           of
           the
           Characters
           of
           Letters
           is
           to
           be
           helpt
           with
           some
           certain
           Instruments
           or
           Images
           running
           into
           the
           eyes
           ;
           the
           same
           also
           I
           here
           repeat
           in
           the
           learning
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           especially
           when
           children
           are
           to
           be
           taught
           :
           who
           are
           to
           be
           brought
           into
           a
           place
           where
           all
           things
           which
           may
           be
           seen
           by
           the
           eyes
           ,
           touched
           with
           the
           hands
           ,
           set
           forth
           by
           the
           pensil
           or
           the
           pen
           ,
           even
           as
           many
           as
           we
           shall
           meet
           with
           throughout
           the
           whole
           world
           ,
           to
           be
           expressed
           in
           Latine
           words
           ,
           may
           be
           shewed
           to
           them
           in
           a
           well-disposed
           order
           ▪
           For
           from
           these
           things
           falling
           under
           the
           sense
           of
           the
           eyes
           ,
           and
           as
           it
           were
           more
           knovvn
           ,
           vve
           vvill
           make
           entrance
           and
           begin
           to
           learn
           the
           Latine
           speech
           .
           Four-footed
           living
           
           Creatures
           ,
           creeping
           Things
           ,
           Fishes
           ,
           and
           Birds
           ,
           vvhich
           can
           neither
           be
           gotten
           ,
           nor
           live
           well
           in
           these
           parts
           ,
           ought
           to
           be
           painted
           .
           Others
           also
           ,
           which
           because
           of
           their
           bulk
           and
           greatnesse
           cannot
           be
           shut
           up
           in
           houses
           ,
           may
           be
           made
           in
           a
           lesser
           forme
           ,
           or
           drawn
           with
           the
           pensil
           ,
           yet
           of
           such
           a
           bignesse
           as
           they
           may
           be
           well
           seen
           by
           boyes
           even
           afar
           off
           .
           
             And
             I
             would
             to
             God
             ,
             that
             among
             so
             great
             a
             multitude
             and
             store
             of
             Books
             with
             which
             the
             world
             is
             now
             troubled
             ,
             and
             in
             so
             great
             covetousnesse
             and
             greedinesse
             of
             Stationers
             every
             way
             hunting
             after
             gain
             ,
             there
             might
             but
             have
             such
             a
             Book
             ,
             as
             I
             have
             so
             often
             counselled
             and
             perswaded
             the
             Book-sellers
             ,
             and
             Artists
             in
             the
             Low-Countreys
             unto
             ,
             once
             come
             forth
             into
             Print
             ;
             in
             which
             all
             things
             whatsoever
             which
             may
             be
             devised
             and
             written
             ,
             and
             seen
             by
             the
             eyes
             ,
             might
             be
             described
             ,
             so
             as
             there
             might
             be
             also
             added
             to
             all
             things
             ,
             and
             all
             parts
             and
             members
             of
             things
             ,
             it
             s
             own
             proper
             word
             ,
             it
             s
             own
             proper
             appellation
             or
             term
             expressed
             in
             the
             Latine
             and
             Dutch
             Tongue
             .
          
           Which
           thing
           how
           great
           an
           advantage
           it
           would
           be
           like
           to
           bring
           to
           the
           learning
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           more
           fully
           and
           more
           quickly
           is
           incredible
           to
           be
           spoken
           .
           Now
           the
           words
           for
           these
           things
           ,
           albert
           they
           may
           extend
           themselves
           in
           number
           to
           some
           thousands
           ,
           yet
           by
           this
           means
           and
           help
           which
           I
           have
           named
           ,
           they
           may
           be
           learned
           of
           boyes
           in
           the
           space
           of
           a
           few
           weeks
           .
           For
           as
           I
           have
           said
           formerly
           of
           Letters
           ,
           that
           outward
           view
           or
           survey
           of
           visible
           Things
           by
           the
           sense
           of
           seeing
           ,
           sets
           a
           stronger
           stamp
           upon
           the
           imagination
           ,
           and
           the
           waxen
           Tables
           of
           the
           memory
           of
           younger
           ones
           ,
           and
           imprints
           the
           image
           and
           the
           terming
           of
           every
           thing
           far
           more
           thoroughly
           and
           deeply
           ,
           then
           if
           it
           were
           brought
           by
           the
           ears
           ,
           as
           it
           were
           by
           more
           uncertain
           messengers
           to
           the
           Memories
           treasury
           .
           For
           those
           things
           which
           are
           visible
           ,
           ought
           to
           enter
           by
           the
           sight
           ,
           and
           not
           by
           hearing
           .
           As
           on
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           what
           things
           are
           perceived
           by
           the
           sense
           of
           hearing
           ,
           as
           sounds
           ,
           and
           all
           kindes
           of
           voices
           be
           ,
           those
           are
           subject
           to
           the
           judgement
           of
           the
           ears
           ,
           and
           can
           no
           more
           be
           seen
           or
           painted
           ;
           then
           that
           Eccho
           ,
           the
           Painter
           whereof
           
             Ausonius
          
           jeers
           and
           laughs
           at
           .
           In
           the
           vulgar
           or
           ordinary
           way
           of
           teaching
           ,
           all
           things
           are
           referred
           to
           the
           ears
           ,
           which
           ought
           to
           be
           known
           and
           perceived
           by
           the
           judgement
           of
           the
           eyes
           .
           And
           School-masters
           have
           judged
           it
           sufficient
           ,
           if
           Scholars
           could
           perceive
           onely
           by
           the
           ears
           the
           words
           or
           terms
           for
           things
           ,
           notwithstanding
           they
           have
           never
           hitherto
           seen
           or
           cast
           their
           eyes
           upon
           many
           of
           them
           .
           Visible
           things
           are
           first
           to
           be
           known
           by
           the
           eyes
           ,
           before
           their
           Appellations
           and
           words
           should
           be
           perceived
           by
           the
           ears
           .
           For
           first
           ,
           care
           ought
           to
           be
           taken
           that
           we
           may
           see
           Things
           ,
           know
           them
           ,
           and
           discern
           them
           one
           from
           another
           ,
           which
           is
           done
           
           by
           the
           benefit
           of
           the
           eyes
           ,
           before
           that
           there
           be
           the
           word
           for
           every
           thing
           ,
           and
           a
           shewing
           what
           term
           it
           hath
           ,
           which
           thing
           is
           perceived
           by
           the
           sense
           of
           the
           ears
           .
           Moreover
           ,
           the
           sight
           comprehends
           things
           far
           surer
           then
           the
           hearing
           ,
           whereupon
           he
           in
           the
           Comoedy
           had
           rather
           have
           one
           eye-witness
           then
           ten
           ear-witnesses
           .
           And
           
             Horace
          
           saith
           ,
           
             
               
                 Segniùs
                 irritant
                 animos
                 demissa
                 per
                 aurens
                 ,
              
               
                 Quàm
                 quae
                 sunt
                 oculis
                 subjecta
                 fidelibus
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 The
                 ear
                 not
                 in
                 such
                 quick
                 and
                 moving
                 wise
              
               
                 Conveys
                 things
                 to
                 the
                 minde
                 ,
                 as
                 do
                 the
                 eyes
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           Yea
           rightly
           in
           this
           teaching
           is
           the
           one
           conjoyned
           with
           the
           other
           ,
           that
           both
           the
           eyes
           and
           the
           ears
           may
           perceive
           and
           know
           those
           things
           which
           are
           proper
           to
           them
           in
           particular
           .
           For
           appellations
           and
           terms
           of
           things
           expressed
           by
           the
           sound
           of
           the
           tongue
           ,
           are
           perceived
           by
           the
           ears
           ;
           so
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           the
           very
           Things
           which
           are
           meant
           by
           these
           appellations
           and
           termes
           ,
           are
           perceived
           by
           the
           eyes
           .
           And
           the
           joyning
           ,
           together
           of
           these
           two
           is
           by
           far
           the
           profitablest
           and
           the
           bravest
           course
           and
           passing
           sit
           and
           appliable
           to
           the
           age
           of
           Children
           .
           For
           as
           it
           avails
           little
           in
           common
           and
           ordinary
           converse
           with
           men
           to
           know
           Things
           themselves
           which
           thou
           canst
           not
           expresse
           by
           their
           certain
           names
           and
           appellations
           :
           So
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           it
           vvill
           not
           benefit
           thee
           at
           all
           to
           learn
           and
           knovv
           vvords
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           ignorant
           of
           Things
           vvhich
           are
           intimated
           thereby
           .
           For
           none
           shall
           over-apply
           vvords
           to
           their
           ovvn
           matters
           in
           a
           right
           manner
           ,
           during
           his
           ignorance
           of
           Things
           .
           There
           are
           such
           as
           these
           in
           abundance
           ,
           vvhich
           boyes
           learn
           out
           of
           
             Nomenclators
             ,
          
           and
           other
           
             Lexicons
             ,
          
           no
           othervvise
           then
           Parrats
           ,
           vvho
           understand
           not
           mens
           vvords
           ,
           and
           knovv
           not
           vvhat
           it
           is
           vvhich
           they
           learn
           and
           speak
           .
           And
           of
           vvhich
           sort
           are
           the
           most
           of
           those
           
             Homoeoteleuta
             ,
          
           or
           riming
           verses
           ,
           vvhich
           vvere
           devised
           as
           
             Compendium's
          
           or
           advantages
           for
           the
           helping
           of
           childrens
           age
           ,
           out
           of
           a
           good
           intention
           truly
           ,
           and
           vvould
           to
           God
           vvith
           event
           and
           successe
           ansvverable
           thereto
           ,
           as
           are
           these
           ,
           
             Manus
             &
             Pignus
             ,
             Mors
             &
             Sors
             ,
          
           vvhich
           in
           our
           ovvn
           Tongue
           end
           in
           one
           Syllable
           ,
           
             Handt
             ,
             Pandt
             ,
             Dodt
             ,
             Lott
             .
          
           When
           boyes
           ,
           for
           the
           most
           part
           are
           ignorant
           vvhat
           Lot
           and
           vvhat
           a
           Pavvn
           is
           .
           And
           vvhat
           doth
           it
           profit
           one
           to
           knovv
           vvhat
           Latine
           vvord
           ansvvers
           to
           the
           Dutch
           ,
           if
           he
           be
           ignorant
           of
           that
           matter
           ?
        
         
         
           Therefore
           when
           boyes
           are
           taught
           ,
           what
           Latine
           word
           answers
           to
           the
           Dutch
           ,
           the
           thing
           it self
           which
           is
           signified
           by
           that
           Dutch
           or
           Latine
           word
           ought
           to
           be
           shewed
           them
           together
           ,
           and
           all
           under
           one
           .
           Yea
           ,
           those
           Things
           ought
           to
           be
           shewn
           in
           the
           first
           place
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           observe
           and
           mark
           them
           well
           by
           their
           eyes
           and
           fancies
           .
           Then
           the
           appellation
           and
           name
           of
           the
           Thing
           is
           to
           be
           added
           afterwards
           .
           And
           in
           this
           regard
           it
           were
           better
           ,
           I
           suppose
           ,
           that
           children
           ,
           while
           they
           are
           over-little
           ,
           and
           remain
           ignorant
           ,
           as
           yet
           of
           the
           vulgar
           namings
           of
           Things
           even
           in
           their
           own
           Countreyspeech
           ,
           were
           not
           put
           to
           this
           teaching
           .
           Whatsoever
           it
           be
           ,
           in
           vain
           are
           words
           learned
           ,
           of
           whose
           Things
           we
           are
           still
           ignorant
           .
           Therefore
           let
           Things
           themselves
           or
           at
           least
           the
           Images
           of
           Things
           ,
           whether
           painted
           or
           engraven
           ,
           be
           exposed
           to
           the
           eyes
           of
           children
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           know
           ,
           what
           those
           Things
           are
           whose
           appellations
           and
           names
           they
           get
           by
           heart
           ,
           that
           so
           they
           may
           learn
           somethings
           solidly
           .
           For
           by
           such
           helps
           childrens
           tender
           age
           is
           to
           be
           assisted
           :
           and
           manifold
           are
           the
           benefits
           which
           it
           receives
           from
           hence
           .
           For
           they
           both
           learn
           Things
           themselves
           ,
           and
           the
           proper
           appellations
           of
           those
           very
           Things
           ,
           which
           they
           have
           perceived
           ,
           and
           the
           genuine
           names
           and
           words
           in
           each
           Language
           ,
           as
           well
           in
           their
           own
           Mother
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           which
           they
           ought
           to
           learn
           by
           the
           interpretative
           Dutch
           .
           And
           this
           knowledge
           onely
           is
           certain
           and
           solid
           ,
           by
           which
           a
           certain
           and
           solid
           foundation
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           is
           laid
           ,
           the
           beginning
           or
           entrance
           being
           made
           from
           Things
           falling
           under
           the
           sense
           of
           the
           eyes
           ,
           and
           those
           indeed
           most
           known
           ,
           and
           daily
           obvious
           .
        
         
           Furthermore
           ,
           all
           Things
           which
           can
           be
           perceived
           by
           the
           sense
           of
           the
           eyes
           ,
           described
           or
           imagined
           ,
           ought
           by
           some
           sure
           way
           ,
           the
           beginning
           being
           made
           from
           things
           more
           known
           ,
           to
           be
           shewed
           to
           children
           ,
           and
           set
           before
           their
           eyes
           .
           The
           beginning
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           being
           made
           from
           Things
           more
           known
           ,
           and
           from
           those
           Things
           which
           first
           of
           all
           occur
           to
           children
           that
           begin
           to
           speak
           ,
           and
           which
           they
           have
           first
           of
           all
           begun
           to
           know
           ,
           and
           to
           name
           with
           a
           stammering
           voice
           in
           their
           own
           Mother-Tongue
           ,
           as
           are
           the
           Things
           which
           be
           in
           the
           House
           ,
           in
           the
           Bed-chamber
           ,
           in
           the
           Dining-room
           ,
           in
           the
           Kitchin
           ,
           in
           the
           Street
           ,
           which
           are
           daily
           obvious
           to
           them
           ,
           and
           lie
           as
           it
           were
           in
           their
           way
           before
           them
           ,
           or
           things
           themselves
           (
           which
           if
           they
           be
           lightly
           had
           ,
           are
           altogether
           to
           be
           preferred
           )
           or
           at
           least
           the
           pictures
           of
           these
           very
           Things
           which
           are
           sufficiently
           known
           .
           That
           so
           there
           may
           be
           a
           passage
           from
           the
           first
           most
           common
           Things
           to
           severall
           others
           ;
           and
           as
           it
           were
           an
           ascent
           by
           little
           and
           little
           from
           the
           lowest
           to
           the
           higher
           .
           Living
           Creatures
           
           as
           we
           have
           mentioned
           before
           ,
           ought
           to
           be
           painted
           ,
           and
           none
           but
           those
           at
           the
           first
           which
           are
           known
           to
           Children
           that
           begin
           to
           learn
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           .
           Moreover
           ,
           all
           those
           terms
           or
           words
           ,
           whose
           Things
           thereby
           signified
           can
           be
           seen
           and
           painted
           ,
           may
           be
           taken
           out
           of
           the
           
             Nomenclater
          
           of
           that
           most
           excellent
           man
           
             Hadrianus
             Junius
             ,
          
           or
           others
           ;
           Provided
           that
           the
           
             Exordium
          
           or
           beginning
           be
           made
           from
           those
           which
           are
           more
           known
           .
           Here
           let
           there
           be
           presented
           and
           offered
           to
           the
           eyes
           all
           Houshold-Instruments
           ,
           Things
           belonging
           to
           Smiths
           or
           Carpenters
           craft
           ;
           Things
           appertaining
           to
           the
           Countrey
           ,
           to
           War
           ,
           to
           Shipping
           ,
           to
           Fishing
           ,
           to
           Hunting
           ,
           to
           Tailory
           ,
           to
           Musick
           ,
           and
           to
           Sewing
           ,
           whatsoever
           is
           to
           be
           met
           with
           in
           the
           businesse
           of
           Books
           or
           Study
           in
           mans
           body
           ,
           and
           in
           all
           its
           parts
           and
           members
           :
           All
           living
           creatures
           ,
           four-footed
           Beasts
           ,
           Birds
           ,
           Fishes
           ,
           Wormes
           ,
           Insects
           ,
           Colours
           ,
           Herbs
           ,
           Trees
           ,
           Fruits
           ,
           all
           womenly
           Instruments
           ,
           and
           those
           that
           belong
           to
           Weaving
           ,
           Baking
           ,
           Riding
           ,
           Playing
           ,
           and
           Building
           ,
           &c.
           
           Lastly
           ,
           all
           those
           Things
           which
           are
           set
           before
           the
           eyes
           ,
           which
           if
           they
           cannot
           conveniently
           be
           had
           in
           Things
           themselves
           ,
           surely
           they
           may
           be
           painted
           .
           Let
           younger
           ones
           be
           brought
           to
           these
           things
           ,
           or
           to
           the
           Images
           of
           Things
           well
           known
           already
           from
           the
           contemplation
           of
           the
           Things
           themselves
           ,
           depainted
           in
           Tables
           ,
           the
           namings
           of
           which
           Things
           they
           shall
           first
           learn
           in
           their
           own
           ,
           and
           then
           in
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           which
           will
           be
           sooner
           then
           one
           would
           think
           effected
           .
           Now
           these
           Pictures
           of
           severall
           Things
           may
           be
           so
           drawn
           ,
           as
           there
           may
           be
           three
           ,
           four
           ,
           or
           more
           Pictures
           ,
           according
           as
           the
           manner
           of
           severall
           Things
           doth
           require
           ,
           painted
           in
           greater
           pages
           ,
           yet
           so
           as
           they
           may
           be
           well
           distinguished
           one
           from
           another
           by
           a
           due
           space
           ,
           and
           so
           as
           the
           Latine
           word
           joyned
           with
           the
           Dutch
           being
           put
           under
           ,
           may
           be
           writ
           the
           next
           to
           them
           ,
           in
           letters
           of
           that
           bignesse
           ,
           as
           may
           be
           read
           by
           boyes
           who
           have
           learned
           already
           to
           read
           ,
           and
           so
           also
           furthermore
           as
           a
           certain
           line
           drawn
           from
           the
           words
           written
           by
           the
           very
           Things
           ,
           may
           shew
           what
           words
           mark
           out
           any
           of
           the
           Things
           .
           These
           Things
           thus
           painted
           and
           joyned
           to
           their
           words
           ,
           shall
           answer
           to
           those
           first
           Elements
           of
           Letters
           .
           For
           as
           of
           those
           put
           together
           there
           are
           made
           Syllables
           ;
           so
           of
           these
           Things
           divided
           or
           compounded
           there
           are
           made
           Sentences
           And
           this
           Way
           is
           natural
           and
           suitable
           to
           childrens
           capacity
           ,
           of
           which
           in
           all
           the
           teaching
           of
           children
           especially
           and
           before
           all
           things
           one
           ought
           to
           have
           a
           due
           regard
           .
           Whence
           that
           common
           manner
           of
           teaching
           is
           the
           more
           to
           be
           condemned
           ,
           in
           which
           there
           are
           first
           of
           all
           words
           of
           Art
           propounded
           to
           boyes
           ,
           whose
           Things
           signified
           by
           the
           words
           
           can
           neither
           be
           painted
           ,
           nor
           counterfeited
           ,
           and
           in
           this
           respect
           are
           not
           to
           be
           conceived
           by
           the
           imagination
           of
           children
           .
           The
           Tables
           and
           Pages
           in
           which
           these
           Images
           of
           visible
           Things
           ,
           as
           I
           have
           said
           ,
           are
           painted
           ,
           may
           be
           so
           composed
           ,
           as
           they
           may
           be
           folded
           after
           the
           manner
           of
           leaves
           in
           a
           great
           Book
           ,
           and
           be
           set
           in
           a
           very
           notable
           place
           .
           In
           knowing
           these
           Things
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           explaining
           of
           them
           by
           their
           own
           words
           children
           ought
           to
           be
           so
           long
           exercised
           ,
           till
           they
           shall
           have
           already
           perceived
           these
           words
           in
           some
           sort
           .
           I
           say
           ,
           in
           some
           sort
           ;
           for
           I
           would
           not
           have
           children
           be
           long
           stayed
           and
           busied
           in
           the
           knowing
           of
           these
           naked
           and
           separate
           words
           ,
           but
           timely
           to
           passe
           on
           to
           the
           composition
           and
           division
           of
           these
           words
           ,
           
             viz.
          
           to
           short
           Phrases
           and
           Sentences
           .
           In
           these
           Sentences
           let
           not
           these
           words
           be
           propounded
           alwayes
           in
           the
           Nominative
           or
           first
           Case
           onely
           ,
           but
           also
           in
           the
           Second
           and
           Third
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           Cases
           .
           Let
           not
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           these
           words
           be
           propounded
           alone
           ,
           as
           hiterto
           they
           have
           been
           ,
           but
           with
           other
           words
           and
           termes
           joyned
           in
           some
           certain
           Sentences
           .
           As
           for
           example
           ,
           let
           not
           these
           words
           as
           hitherto
           be
           propounded
           severally
           ,
           or
           by
           themselves
           and
           in
           the
           first
           Case
           ,
           
             Panis
             ,
          
           Bread
           ;
           
             Felis
             ,
          
           a
           Cat
           ;
           
             Sella
             ,
          
           a
           Stool
           ;
           
             Meksa
             ,
          
           a
           Table
           ;
           
             Scamnum
             ,
          
           a
           Bench
           .
           For
           if
           they
           shall
           stand
           the
           longer
           in
           learning
           these
           Words
           put
           sunderly
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           first
           Case
           :
           by
           and
           by
           when
           they
           ought
           to
           joyn
           them
           together
           with
           others
           ,
           and
           to
           connect
           them
           in
           some
           Sentence
           ,
           they
           do
           that
           for
           the
           most
           part
           in
           the
           first
           Case
           ,
           when
           the
           order
           of
           the
           Latine
           Speech
           requires
           other
           Cases
           .
           Besides
           these
           words
           thus
           naked
           and
           set
           alone
           are
           learned
           of
           boyes
           far
           more
           difficultly
           then
           if
           they
           he
           joyned
           with
           a
           Verb
           and
           a
           Noun
           ,
           as
           't
           is
           termed
           ,
           Adjective
           in
           some
           short
           Phrase
           or
           little
           Sentence
           ;
           as
           for
           example
           ,
           
             Panis
             in
             mensâ
             positus
             est
             ,
          
           The
           bread
           is
           set
           upon
           the
           table
           ;
           
             Felis
             vorat
             Marem
             ,
          
           The
           Cat
           devours
           the
           Mouse
           ;
           
             Puer
             sedet
             in
             sellâ
             ,
          
           The
           boy
           sits
           upon
           the
           stool
           ;
           
             Cants
             jacet
             sub
             mensâ
             ,
          
           The
           Dog
           lieth
           under
           the
           table
           ;
           
             Puella
             dormit
             in
             scamno
             ,
          
           The
           Girle
           sleeps
           upon
           the
           bench
           .
           And
           if
           such
           like
           names
           be
           thus
           with
           other
           words
           and
           termes
           in
           a
           short
           Phrase
           or
           little
           Sentence
           propounded
           to
           a
           childe
           ,
           so
           as
           he
           may
           ,
           considering
           the
           capacity
           of
           that
           age
           ,
           perceive
           it
           :
           much
           profit
           will
           redound
           from
           thence
           .
           For
           he
           will
           both
           learn
           all
           Things
           twice
           as
           soon
           ,
           and
           perceive
           twice
           ,
           nay
           thrice
           as
           much
           ,
           and
           be
           brought
           presently
           as
           it
           were
           into
           the
           very
           use
           and
           benefit
           of
           the
           Latine
           .
           And
           examples
           in
           this
           sort
           of
           Sentences
           may
           be
           so
           propounded
           ,
           as
           the
           Nouns
           or
           names
           may
           passe
           through
           all
           the
           Cases
           ,
           Numbers
           ,
           Declensions
           ,
           Genders
           ;
           and
           the
           Verbs
           through
           all
           Moods
           ,
           Tenses
           
           and
           Persons
           .
           For
           example
           ,
           A
           boy
           will
           not
           so
           easily
           understand
           what
           that
           is
           which
           is
           called
           
             Canis
             ,
             Praesepe
             ,
             Bos
             ,
             Faenum
             ,
             Cornu
             ,
             &c.
          
           if
           they
           be
           asunder
           or
           apart
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           were
           propounded
           in
           some
           short
           and
           perspicuous
           Sentence
           ;
           as
           suppose
           in
           this
           ,
           
             Cauisjacet
             in
             praesepi
             ,
          
           The
           Dog
           lies
           in
           the
           Manger
           :
           
             Bos
             habet
             Faenum
             in
             Cornu
             ,
          
           The
           Oxe
           hath
           hay
           upon
           his
           horne
           .
           Just
           as
           in
           a
           picture
           ,
           which
           consists
           of
           one
           single
           Thing
           ,
           and
           is
           express'd
           with
           one
           colour
           or
           
             Monochrom
          
           in
           a
           single
           living
           creature
           ,
           or
           Instrument
           ;
           as
           for
           instance
           ,
           in
           a
           Sheep
           ,
           Hog
           ,
           or
           Sword
           ,
           every
           one
           being
           severed
           and
           set
           by
           themselves
           ;
           it
           will
           never
           so
           much
           take
           or
           affect
           the
           eye
           and
           fancie
           of
           the
           looker
           on
           ,
           as
           some
           excellent
           picture
           ,
           in
           which
           all
           these
           are
           joyntly
           ,
           and
           in
           their
           colour
           distinctly
           set
           before
           the
           eyes
           ;
           as
           for
           example
           ,
           the
           Picture
           of
           furious
           
             Ajax
             ,
          
           killing
           Hogs
           and
           Sheep
           with
           his
           sword
           .
           And
           as
           a
           boy
           when
           he
           hath
           already
           well
           learned
           the
           single
           Letters
           ,
           will
           learn
           to
           read
           far
           sooner
           ,
           the
           more
           ,
           and
           the
           timelier
           he
           is
           exercised
           in
           putting
           together
           two
           Letters
           ,
           and
           anon
           more
           into
           one
           Syllable
           ,
           and
           in
           uttering
           them
           with
           one
           single
           voice
           ,
           then
           if
           :
           he
           should
           stay
           the
           longer
           upon
           the
           knowing
           and
           pronouncing
           of
           single
           Letters
           set
           severally
           one
           by
           one
           .
           So
           also
           will
           a
           boy
           learn
           to
           speak
           Latine
           far
           sooner
           ,
           if
           after
           he
           hath
           in
           some
           sort
           perceived
           the
           Latine
           words
           joyned
           together
           with
           their
           Things
           ,
           (
           which
           may
           in
           that
           manner
           ,
           as
           hath
           been
           formerly
           shewed
           ,
           be
           done
           by
           Gods
           help
           ,
           within
           a
           few
           weeks
           )
           he
           be
           the
           timelier
           exercised
           in
           these
           compounds
           of
           those
           simple
           words
           ,
           Nouns
           and
           Verbs
           ;
           to
           wit
           ,
           in
           Sentences
           and
           Phrases
           ,
           then
           if
           he
           should
           be
           deteined
           ,
           and
           stay
           the
           longer
           upon
           the
           learning
           the
           names
           of
           single
           Things
           or
           their
           Images
           .
           Therefore
           ,
           as
           Syllables
           are
           made
           of
           single
           Letters
           ,
           and
           words
           of
           Syllables
           ,
           consisting
           of
           two
           ,
           three
           ,
           four
           ,
           five
           ,
           or
           more
           Syllables
           ;
           so
           of
           single
           names
           ,
           terms
           ,
           and
           words
           ,
           there
           are
           made
           Phrases
           and
           Sentences
           ,
           some
           consisting
           of
           fewer
           ,
           others
           of
           more
           words
           .
           Lastly
           ,
           as
           words
           are
           made
           of
           Syllables
           ;
           so
           are
           Speeches
           and
           Sermons
           made
           of
           Sentences
           .
           Here
           then
           for
           the
           tender
           age
           of
           children
           a
           certain
           way
           to
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           might
           be
           made
           no
           lesse
           easie
           and
           ready
           then
           fine
           and
           delightful
           ,
           whereby
           both
           boyes
           and
           Masters
           might
           by
           a
           good
           reformation
           finde
           this
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           ;
           this
           displeasure
           ,
           leasure
           ;
           and
           the
           Learner
           ,
           this
           hateful
           torturing
           ,
           a
           grateful
           tutouring
           place
           ;
           and
           the
           Teacher
           ,
           this
           painful
           vocation
           ,
           a
           gainful
           vacation
           ;
           that
           the
           School
           might
           be
           answerable
           to
           its
           own
           name
           ,
           and
           be
           as
           't
           is
           termed
           .
           
             Ludus
             literarius
             .
          
           Which
           verily
           will
           come
           to
           passe
           ,
           if
           all
           those
           Things
           ,
           whoso
           Images
           set
           out
           before
           in
           Pictures
           ,
           and
           to
           which
           
           their
           own
           proper
           words
           have
           been
           written
           ,
           being
           after
           a
           sort
           perceived
           and
           known
           of
           boyes
           already
           ,
           as
           in
           making
           up
           Sentences
           ,
           names
           ,
           and
           words
           are
           compounded
           one
           with
           another
           :
           So
           also
           were
           Things
           expressed
           in
           the
           names
           and
           words
           of
           those
           Sentences
           shadowed
           out
           and
           expressed
           in
           certain
           Pictures
           .
           So
           as
           among
           the
           single
           Pictures
           of
           Things
           ,
           not
           so
           much
           as
           any
           Picture
           of
           a
           Thing
           may
           be
           passed
           by
           ,
           which
           may
           not
           be
           once
           or
           twice
           compounded
           with
           others
           to
           set
           before
           the
           eyes
           ,
           and
           expresse
           in
           a
           rude
           Picture
           some
           brief
           and
           pleasant
           Sentence
           suited
           and
           sorted
           to
           the
           capacity
           of
           Children
           .
           So
           as
           no
           word
           at
           least
           of
           those
           Things
           which
           may
           be
           seen
           ,
           or
           painted
           ,
           be
           over-slipt
           .
           But
           I
           would
           have
           these
           members
           of
           Sentences
           so
           made
           ,
           as
           there
           may
           not
           be
           for
           the
           expressing
           of
           these
           several
           Sentences
           ,
           or
           rather
           members
           of
           Sentences
           more
           then
           three
           ,
           four
           ,
           or
           five
           Things
           to
           be
           imitated
           in
           the
           Picture
           required
           .
           Now
           there
           is
           of
           such
           like
           Names
           visible
           and
           noted
           Things
           (
           for
           I
           speak
           here
           of
           them
           onely
           ,
           from
           which
           the
           beginning
           of
           this
           teaching
           is
           most
           rightly
           made
           )
           and
           which
           may
           be
           taken
           out
           of
           a
           
             Nomenclator
          
           and
           
             Lexicons
             ,
          
           and
           such
           have
           been
           noted
           by
           me
           a
           good
           while
           since
           ,
           some
           certain
           number
           .
           And
           by
           which
           names
           ,
           in
           the
           expressing
           these
           Sentences
           with
           a
           Picture
           ,
           a
           passage
           may
           be
           so
           made
           ,
           as
           not
           any
           name
           of
           those
           Things
           which
           are
           better
           known
           to
           children
           ,
           may
           be
           left
           untouched
           ,
           to
           which
           may
           be
           adjoyned
           Verbs
           and
           other
           parts
           of
           Speech
           .
           Also
           out
           of
           these
           Sentences
           there
           may
           be
           taken
           exercises
           ,
           in
           which
           they
           may
           go
           through
           all
           Numbers
           and
           Cases
           in
           Nounes
           ;
           and
           through
           all
           Tenses
           ,
           Moods
           ,
           and
           Persons
           in
           Verbs
           ,
           as
           we
           shall
           speak
           of
           afterwards
           .
           Nor
           is
           there
           any
           reason
           that
           any
           should
           be
           frighted
           with
           the
           multitude
           of
           Pictures
           ,
           which
           are
           requisite
           to
           expresse
           these
           members
           of
           Sentences
           ,
           in
           the
           which
           the
           names
           of
           all
           Things
           visible
           are
           conteined
           .
           For
           these
           Things
           compounded
           one
           with
           another
           ,
           are
           absolv'd
           or
           dispatch'd
           in
           far
           fewer
           Pictures
           ,
           then
           those
           single
           and
           simple
           Things
           above
           mentioned
           ,
           or
           not
           in
           many
           more
           however
           .
           For
           in
           these
           Pictures
           of
           compounded
           Things
           ,
           in
           which
           ,
           as
           I
           have
           said
           ,
           certain
           Sentences
           are
           expressed
           ,
           in
           one
           Picture
           three
           ,
           four
           ,
           five
           ,
           or
           even
           more
           Things
           may
           be
           joyned
           together
           .
           For
           example
           ,
           in
           expressing
           a
           Whetstone
           ,
           and
           a
           Rasor
           ,
           that
           remarkable
           History
           or
           Fable
           of
           
             Accius
             Navius
          
           may
           be
           used
           and
           propounded
           in
           that
           Picture
           with
           this
           inscription
           ,
           
             Accius
             secat
             cotem
             novaculâ
             ,
             Accius
          
           cuts
           a
           Whetstone
           in
           sunder
           with
           a
           rasor
           .
           In
           this
           Sentence
           and
           Picture
           two
           Nouns
           and
           one
           Verb
           are
           propounded
           .
           In
           the
           Picture
           ,
           in
           which
           
             Equitat
             puer
             in
             arundine
             longâ
             ,
          
           A
           boy
           
           rides
           upon
           a
           Hobby-horse
           :
           four
           words
           are
           learned
           ,
           two
           Noun
           Substantives
           ,
           with
           one
           Adjective
           ,
           and
           a
           Verb.
           
           In
           the
           Picture
           ,
           where
           
             Leo
             Asinum
             dilaniat
             curvis
             unguibus
             ,
          
           The
           Lion
           tears
           the
           Asse
           in
           pieces
           with
           his
           crooked
           pawes
           ;
           five
           words
           are
           learned
           ,
           three
           Substantives
           and
           an
           Adjective
           ,
           and
           a
           Verb.
           
           But
           I
           would
           not
           have
           these
           Sentences
           which
           are
           to
           be
           expressed
           in
           Pictures
           to
           exceed
           this
           number
           of
           five
           ,
           or
           the
           number
           six
           at
           the
           utmost
           .
           And
           by
           such
           like
           members
           of
           Sentences
           and
           Pictures
           one
           may
           easily
           passe
           through
           the
           whole
           University
           of
           all
           the
           more
           usual
           words
           in
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           by
           which
           visible
           Things
           are
           signified
           .
           Which
           thing
           at
           the
           first
           will
           put
           one
           to
           some
           labour
           and
           charge
           ,
           yet
           not
           very
           much
           .
           But
           these
           Pictures
           once
           so
           made
           and
           procured
           may
           afterwards
           last
           alwayes
           ,
           and
           serve
           for
           the
           teaching
           an
           infinite
           of
           boyes
           in
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           .
           And
           who
           would
           not
           redeem
           with
           a
           little
           cost
           so
           many
           years
           of
           mans
           life
           in
           many
           thousands
           of
           children
           ,
           whose
           turnes
           this
           one
           thing
           ,
           when
           't
           is
           once
           provided
           ,
           may
           serve
           ?
           And
           which
           things
           whatever
           they
           cost
           will
           most
           largely
           recompence
           their
           paines
           and
           charges
           which
           either
           a
           Prince
           or
           Common-wealth
           may
           easily
           sustain
           .
           For
           a
           boy
           will
           learn
           in
           an
           hour
           even
           twenty
           or
           more
           such
           Sentences
           so
           shewn
           in
           a
           Picture
           ,
           which
           being
           once
           and
           again
           repeated
           in
           the
           dayes
           following
           will
           most
           firmly
           and
           constantly
           stick
           by
           him
           .
           There
           shall
           be
           contained
           therefore
           in
           several
           Pages
           or
           Tables
           several
           Pictures
           of
           that
           bignesse
           ,
           as
           they
           may
           be
           well
           seen
           by
           all
           even
           afar
           off
           ,
           the
           Tables
           may
           be
           evenly
           joyned
           together
           in
           the
           manner
           of
           some
           great
           Book
           ,
           and
           set
           in
           a
           very
           clear
           place
           .
           And
           there
           shall
           be
           so
           many
           Books
           of
           this
           sort
           made
           ,
           as
           are
           sufficient
           for
           the
           holding
           all
           the
           Pictures
           ,
           wherein
           the
           more
           known
           visible
           things
           are
           expressed
           ,
           It
           will
           hence
           certainly
           come
           to
           passe
           ,
           that
           children
           may
           learn
           and
           learn
           indeed
           exactly
           the
           termes
           of
           all
           visible
           Things
           of
           this
           manner
           ,
           with
           many
           Verbs
           ,
           and
           other
           parts
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           .
           And
           in
           expressing
           which
           even
           learned
           and
           ancient
           men
           do
           often
           either
           stick
           or
           stumble
           .
           Now
           such
           Latine
           Sentences
           and
           members
           of
           Sentences
           which
           are
           to
           be
           expressed
           in
           Pictures
           ,
           ought
           to
           be
           pick't
           out
           with
           singular
           choice
           .
           To
           which
           thing
           there
           should
           be
           used
           not
           onely
           the
           most
           memorable
           Sacred
           Histories
           of
           the
           Old
           and
           New
           Testament
           ,
           expressed
           in
           their
           Pictures
           ,
           and
           explained
           in
           brief
           Sentences
           :
           for
           example
           sake
           ,
           
             That
             God
             created
             the
             heaven
             and
             the
             earth
             .
             The
             Serpent
             deceived
             our
             first
             Parents
             .
          
           Cain
           
             kill'd
             his
             brother
          
           Abel
           .
           
             The
             Delugo
             overflowes
             the
             world
             .
             Fire
             from
             heaven
             burnoth
          
           Sodome
           .
           Abraham
           
             is
             minded
             to
             sacrifice
             his
             son
          
           
           Isaac
           .
           And
           the
           other
           Histories
           chosen
           with
           accurate
           judgement
           ,
           so
           as
           they
           may
           be
           explained
           by
           adding
           such
           a
           Sentence
           ,
           whose
           Verbs
           and
           Nouns
           may
           be
           easily
           comprehended
           by
           children
           .
           But
           also
           all
           notable
           things
           may
           be
           chosen
           out
           of
           Heathenish
           Histories
           and
           Fables
           of
           
             Aesop
             ,
          
           the
           Poets
           and
           others
           .
           A
           rude
           knowledge
           of
           which
           kinde
           of
           Histories
           and
           Fables
           ,
           when
           children
           have
           as
           it
           were
           fore-tasted
           out
           of
           such
           manner
           of
           Pictures
           and
           Sentences
           ,
           afterwards
           being
           striplings
           and
           young
           men
           ,
           they
           will
           not
           onely
           more
           readily
           and
           quickly
           in
           the
           fuller
           reading
           of
           this
           sort
           of
           Histories
           and
           Fables
           perceive
           all
           things
           ,
           but
           also
           retein
           them
           in
           more
           faithfull
           memory
           .
           And
           in
           chusing
           this
           sort
           of
           Pictures
           that
           we
           may
           proceed
           in
           a
           more
           certain
           way
           ,
           all
           the
           termes
           of
           this
           sort
           of
           visible
           and
           more
           used
           Things
           may
           be
           noted
           ,
           and
           such
           a
           pleasant
           ,
           short
           ,
           &
           easie
           Sentence
           accommodated
           to
           each
           ,
           which
           may
           be
           expressed
           in
           such
           a
           Picture
           .
           For
           by
           that
           meanes
           the
           number
           of
           this
           sort
           of
           Pictures
           will
           be
           easily
           shewn
           ;
           nor
           will
           there
           be
           over-passed
           any
           term
           of
           any
           visible
           Thing
           untouched
           or
           omitted
           .
           Now
           what
           names
           of
           visible
           Things
           may
           not
           as
           yet
           be
           comprised
           in
           this
           sort
           of
           Histories
           or
           Fables
           ,
           may
           be
           easily
           added
           in
           any
           kinde
           of
           other
           Sentences
           ,
           devised
           according
           to
           our
           pleasure
           ,
           and
           expressed
           in
           a
           Picture
           .
           And
           while
           Masters
           teach
           their
           Scholars
           this
           sort
           of
           termes
           ,
           Nouns
           and
           Verbs
           in
           these
           Pictures
           and
           Sentences
           ,
           not
           onely
           the
           very
           Sentence
           which
           sets
           out
           in
           a
           few
           words
           the
           sum
           of
           the
           painted
           History
           or
           Table
           ,
           being
           written
           in
           greater
           letters
           ,
           ought
           to
           be
           set
           as
           the
           title
           to
           the
           Picture
           ;
           but
           also
           to
           those
           two
           ,
           three
           ,
           or
           four
           Things
           ,
           which
           are
           chiefly
           noted
           in
           the
           Picture
           ,
           to
           each
           their
           own
           Latine
           words
           ,
           under
           which
           the
           Dutch
           may
           be
           put
           ,
           ought
           to
           be
           set
           the
           next
           in
           bigger
           letters
           ,
           and
           by
           drawing
           a
           line
           ,
           the
           termes
           to
           be
           conjoyned
           with
           their
           Things
           which
           they
           note
           ;
           to
           the
           end
           ,
           that
           the
           weak
           judgement
           of
           children
           may
           not
           erre
           in
           applying
           the
           several
           terms
           to
           their
           Things
           .
           Now
           here
           Masters
           by
           the
           way
           should
           adde
           ,
           as
           they
           see
           good
           in
           these
           Sentences
           ,
           which
           are
           let
           to
           the
           Pictures
           ,
           the
           most
           full
           ,
           profitable
           ,
           and
           gallant
           exercises
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           are
           likely
           to
           be
           welcome
           and
           pleasant
           to
           children
           ,
           in
           which
           a
           passage
           may
           be
           made
           through
           the
           Cases
           and
           Numbers
           in
           Nouns
           ,
           and
           through
           the
           Tenses
           ,
           Moods
           ,
           and
           Persons
           in
           Verbs
           :
           As
           for
           example
           ,
           In
           the
           Picture
           of
           the
           Eagle
           feeding
           on
           the
           heart
           of
           
             Promethous
             ;
          
           By
           the
           Picture
           of
           the
           Eagle
           and
           the
           heart
           let
           the
           Latine
           terms
           be
           writ
           the
           next
           ,
           to
           which
           the
           Dutch
           may
           be
           put
           with
           this
           inscription
           writ
           over
           the
           Picture
           ,
           
             Aquila
             devorat
             cor
          
           Promethei
           ,
           
           The
           Eagle
           devours
           
             Prometheus
          
           his
           heart
           ,
           together
           with
           the
           Dutch
           Interpretation
           ,
           so
           put
           under
           ,
           as
           the
           Latine
           may
           answer
           word
           for
           word
           to
           the
           Dutch
           set
           under
           it
           .
           Here
           in
           few
           words
           that
           Fable
           may
           be
           expounded
           to
           Children
           ,
           that
           so
           all
           things
           may
           be
           more
           acceptable
           and
           more
           manifest
           ,
           and
           those
           things
           which
           are
           uttered
           may
           be
           more
           throughly
           imprinted
           in
           their
           waxen
           memory
           .
           This
           example
           being
           both
           in
           the
           Picture
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           Sentence
           exposed
           to
           the
           eyes
           of
           Children
           ,
           the
           Master
           may
           in
           the
           Noun
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           Verb
           go
           through
           the
           Cases
           ,
           Numbers
           ,
           Moods
           ,
           Tenses
           and
           Persons
           .
           As
           in
           the
           Nominative
           or
           first
           Case
           ,
           
             Hic
             Aquila
             devorat
             cor
          
           Promethei
           .
           In
           the
           Genetive
           or
           second
           Case
           ,
           
             Pictura
             Aquilae
             qui
             devoravit
             cor
          
           Promethei
           .
           In
           the
           Verb
           ,
           
             devorat
             ,
          
           one
           may
           passe
           over
           through
           Numbers
           ,
           Moods
           ,
           Persons
           ,
           &c
           ,
           And
           these
           exercises
           the
           Master
           may
           adde
           by
           the
           way
           in
           the
           sole
           examples
           ,
           without
           any
           Dictates
           or
           Precepts
           .
           Yet
           we
           must
           take
           heed
           ,
           lest
           these
           exercises
           from
           one
           propounded
           example
           prove
           too
           long
           ,
           that
           one
           cannot
           likewise
           passe
           to
           the
           rest
           ,
           and
           go
           over
           all
           things
           maturely
           and
           in
           good
           time
           .
           These
           examples
           in
           this
           sort
           of
           exercises
           will
           haply
           seem
           ridiculous
           and
           foolish
           to
           some
           ;
           but
           neverthelesse
           ,
           such
           as
           are
           accomodated
           to
           Childrens
           age
           ,
           and
           by
           which
           there
           is
           a
           most
           certain
           or
           sure
           way
           laid
           to
           the
           knowledge
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           .
           In
           the
           Pictures
           and
           Sentences
           written
           thereunto
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           exercises
           taken
           ,
           as
           we
           have
           said
           ,
           out
           of
           these
           Sentences
           ,
           Children
           for
           some
           such
           time
           ,
           as
           shall
           be
           thought
           sufficient
           ,
           shall
           be
           exercised
           ,
           as
           the
           Master
           may
           propound
           all
           things
           in
           Latine
           ,
           and
           interpret
           them
           in
           the
           Scholars
           own
           native
           Language
           .
           In
           which
           exercise
           ,
           when
           they
           shall
           have
           gone
           over
           for
           some
           courses
           ,
           all
           these
           proposed
           Pictures
           of
           visible
           Things
           in
           the
           Sentences
           written
           thereunto
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           exercises
           taken
           therefrom
           .
           Afterwards
           ,
           by
           turning
           or
           altering
           the
           order
           ,
           the
           Master
           may
           propound
           to
           them
           all
           those
           former
           things
           in
           Dutch
           ,
           which
           the
           Children
           may
           be
           now
           enjoyned
           to
           expresse
           in
           Latine
           .
           Which
           thing
           while
           the
           Scholars
           are
           a
           doing
           ,
           let
           the
           Masters
           especially
           do
           their
           endeavour
           ,
           and
           have
           a
           care
           ,
           that
           not
           so
           much
           as
           any
           Barbarisme
           or
           Germanisme
           intervene
           .
           And
           for
           the
           use
           of
           this
           and
           the
           former
           exercise
           let
           the
           terminations
           of
           Nouns
           and
           Declensions
           in
           their
           Numbers
           and
           Cases
           ;
           and
           of
           Verbs
           in
           the
           Moods
           ,
           Number
           ,
           and
           Persons
           of
           the
           Conjugations
           drawn
           in
           two
           Tables
           hung
           up
           be
           propounded
           through
           which
           a
           passage
           may
           be
           made
           in
           order
           so
           far
           as
           shall
           seem
           fitting
           ,
           I
           say
           the
           bare
           terminations
           onely
           ,
           without
           any
           names
           or
           appellations
           of
           Art
           .
           For
           this
           one
           and
           onely
           thing
           
           transferred
           hither
           out
           of
           the
           precepts
           of
           Grammar
           may
           perhaps
           not
           unprofitably
           be
           used
           .
           Not
           as
           though
           we
           cannot
           want
           these
           helps
           ;
           but
           that
           hothing
           may
           be
           left
           untouched
           in
           these
           exercises
           ,
           and
           that
           children
           may
           be
           brought
           on
           through
           all
           parts
           of
           the
           Latine
           Speech
           .
        
         
           These
           things
           being
           dispatch'd
           ,
           when
           children
           are
           now
           brought
           on
           through
           all
           these
           Pictures
           of
           Things
           visible
           and
           obvious
           ,
           which
           being
           marked
           with
           certain
           appellations
           ,
           names
           and
           termes
           ,
           are
           extant
           in
           the
           whole
           circuit
           or
           circumference
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           and
           are
           propounded
           either
           alone
           ,
           or
           joyned
           with
           others
           ;
           and
           have
           been
           exercised
           at
           their
           entrance
           in
           the
           single
           terms
           of
           these
           Things
           ,
           afterward
           in
           Sentences
           which
           have
           been
           compounded
           of
           these
           single
           termes
           ;
           first
           of
           all
           in
           expressing
           the
           Latine
           with
           the
           Dutch
           ,
           then
           the
           Dutch
           with
           the
           Latine
           .
           And
           even
           thus
           have
           begun
           by
           little
           and
           little
           to
           be
           made
           free
           in
           the
           City
           of
           
             Rome
             ,
          
           and
           to
           be
           brought
           as
           young
           Souldiers
           into
           the
           Latines
           tents
           .
           Now
           in
           the
           end
           these
           helps
           of
           Images
           and
           Pictures
           being
           left
           ,
           they
           shall
           passe
           to
           a
           little
           freer
           and
           looser
           exercise
           of
           Latine
           Speech
           ;
           and
           there
           are
           to
           be
           added
           also
           other
           termes
           of
           Things
           ,
           which
           are
           not
           comprehended
           by
           fight
           ,
           nor
           exposed
           to
           the
           eyes
           by
           the
           help
           of
           Pictures
           ,
           but
           are
           comprehended
           by
           the
           other
           Senses
           ,
           the
           hearing
           ,
           tasting
           ,
           smelling
           ,
           touching
           ;
           and
           lastly
           ,
           by
           the
           minde
           and
           reason
           :
           and
           moreover
           ,
           well
           neer
           all
           Nouns
           ,
           Verbs
           ,
           and
           parts
           of
           Speech
           ,
           as
           many
           as
           are
           conteined
           in
           the
           whole
           compasse
           of
           the
           Latine
           speech
           ,
           not
           so
           much
           as
           any
           excepted
           .
           And
           which
           things
           they
           will
           now
           more
           easily
           perceive
           when
           they
           retain
           those
           former
           things
           being
           indifferently
           known
           and
           taught
           already
           .
           For
           mans
           memory
           ,
           imagination
           ,
           and
           reason
           hath
           this
           peculiar
           ,
           that
           the
           more
           Things
           it
           knowes
           ,
           the
           more
           it
           can
           still
           further
           receive
           ,
           and
           is
           throughly
           filled
           and
           satisfied
           with
           nothing
           .
           Therefore
           those
           termes
           of
           the
           Latine
           Speech
           which
           are
           yet
           remaining
           of
           Things
           Invisible
           ,
           Verbs
           and
           Nouns
           may
           be
           collected
           into
           Sentences
           that
           are
           brief
           ,
           and
           comprehended
           in
           few
           words
           ,
           so
           as
           the
           Sentences
           be
           perspicuous
           ,
           and
           suited
           to
           the
           capacity
           and
           benefit
           of
           this
           age
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           beginning
           be
           made
           alwayes
           from
           those
           which
           are
           more
           easie
           ,
           and
           let
           not
           any
           word
           at
           all
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           of
           those
           Things
           especially
           which
           are
           more
           known
           ,
           and
           occur
           more
           often
           ,
           be
           left
           untouched
           .
           And
           these
           Sentences
           may
           be
           chosen
           with
           accurate
           judgement
           out
           of
           
             Forum
             Romanum
             ,
          
           or
           the
           Promptuary
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           or
           rather
           out
           of
           the
           very
           Authors
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           so
           as
           in
           them
           may
           be
           seen
           not
           onely
           all
           variety
           of
           Genders
           ,
           Cases
           ,
           Tenses
           ,
           
           Moods
           ,
           Persons
           ;
           but
           also
           that
           all
           the
           Rules
           of
           the
           
             Syntax
          
           may
           be
           touched
           ,
           and
           that
           there
           may
           be
           propounded
           a
           true
           ,
           lively
           ,
           and
           genuine
           Grammar
           in
           brief
           ,
           perspicuous
           and
           pleasant
           examples
           ,
           not
           that
           bastard
           and
           adulterate
           one
           in
           precepts
           and
           terms
           of
           Arts
           ,
           of
           which
           childrens
           age
           is
           not
           yet
           capable
           .
           And
           by
           which
           examples
           ,
           by
           which
           use
           and
           excercise
           ,
           if
           the
           Latine
           tongue
           can
           be
           learned
           in
           two
           ,
           or
           surely
           ,
           three
           years
           space
           ,
           to
           what
           end
           shall
           we
           sweat
           and
           toil
           ten
           ,
           twelve
           or
           more
           years
           ?
           For
           the
           most
           certain
           ,
           and
           most
           ready
           course
           of
           learning
           any
           Tongue
           is
           by
           Use
           ,
           and
           Exercise
           ,
           and
           by
           Examples
           .
           Hard
           ,
           troublesome
           ,
           harsh
           ,
           unpleasant
           ,
           and
           hindred
           with
           infinite
           difficulties
           is
           the
           way
           of
           learning
           by
           Precepts
           .
           Now
           there
           's
           no
           reason
           that
           any
           one
           should
           suspect
           that
           these
           kinde
           of
           Books
           ,
           in
           which
           all
           these
           Sentences
           ,
           wherein
           the
           parts
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           are
           to
           be
           conteined
           ,
           should
           be
           orderly
           digested
           ,
           are
           not
           to
           be
           procured
           or
           got
           without
           very
           great
           charges
           ,
           and
           huge
           difficulties
           .
           Truly
           ,
           if
           there
           were
           onely
           just
           and
           due
           rewards
           appointed
           for
           this
           businesse
           ,
           whereof
           I
           have
           spoken
           ,
           by
           those
           who
           can
           ,
           and
           even
           indeed
           ought
           :
           such
           a
           Book
           might
           perhaps
           sooner
           then
           one
           would
           think
           be
           provided
           and
           produced
           ,
           in
           which
           all
           those
           things
           might
           be
           conteined
           in
           order
           ,
           which
           might
           be
           sufficient
           for
           this
           matter
           .
           And
           in
           delivering
           which
           things
           ,
           if
           Masters
           would
           go
           before
           with
           that
           faithfulnesse
           and
           diligence
           ,
           which
           is
           meet
           ;
           and
           in
           rendering
           which
           ,
           if
           their
           Scholars
           would
           but
           follow
           ,
           they
           might
           by
           and
           by
           be
           admitted
           to
           read
           ,
           hear
           ,
           and
           interpret
           with
           some
           benefit
           the
           Authours
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           .
           And
           these
           things
           at
           length
           being
           taught
           and
           perceived
           ,
           Children
           may
           be
           exercised
           in
           the
           stile
           of
           Latine
           speech
           both
           in
           speaking
           and
           writing
           .
           For
           this
           should
           not
           be
           done
           hitherto
           ,
           because
           it
           could
           not
           be
           done
           well
           .
           Nor
           indeed
           should
           boyes
           be
           driven
           rashly
           to
           speak
           and
           write
           Latine
           by
           their
           own
           proper
           wit
           and
           invention
           without
           any
           aid
           or
           help
           ,
           before
           that
           they
           have
           got
           themselves
           ,
           by
           these
           meanes
           which
           I
           have
           spoken
           of
           ,
           the
           use
           of
           this
           kinde
           of
           Latine
           speech
           ,
           and
           from
           such
           Things
           which
           they
           have
           not
           as
           yet
           conceived
           ,
           or
           which
           being
           conceived
           ,
           they
           have
           not
           as
           yet
           brought
           to
           maturity
           ,
           there
           will
           arise
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           ,
           slender
           issues
           ,
           and
           nothing
           but
           Germanismes
           ,
           Soloecismes
           ,
           Barbarismes
           ,
           aborts
           ,
           disgraces
           ,
           discredits
           ,
           and
           basenesses
           of
           the
           Latine
           speech
           .
           Now
           such
           a
           Book
           may
           be
           made
           without
           either
           great
           labour
           or
           cost
           ,
           in
           which
           all
           things
           may
           be
           contained
           which
           are
           hereto
           required
           ,
           and
           which
           may
           be
           used
           as
           common
           &
           general
           in
           all
           Schools
           ,
           and
           which
           might
           be
           as
           the
           Portal
           &
           gate
           of
           the
           Latine
           speech
           
           consisting
           ,
           as
           hath
           been
           said
           ,
           of
           brief
           and
           perspicuous
           Sentences
           ,
           which
           Childrens
           age
           may
           not
           onely
           comprehend
           ,
           but
           also
           comprehend
           with
           a
           certain
           pleasure
           and
           willingnesse
           of
           minde
           .
           Now
           in
           collecting
           these
           Sentences
           ,
           this
           paines
           ,
           which
           I
           have
           so
           often
           mentioned
           ,
           is
           chiefly
           to
           be
           taken
           ,
           that
           they
           be
           not
           onely
           brief
           ,
           but
           also
           Latine
           ,
           and
           taken
           onely
           out
           of
           every
           the
           best
           Roman
           Authors
           ,
           who
           have
           writ
           in
           Prose
           or
           Verse
           ,
           Oratours
           and
           Poets
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           beginning
           be
           made
           alwayes
           from
           those
           which
           are
           most
           easie
           and
           perspicuous
           .
           Which
           thing
           in
           reason
           will
           bestow
           that
           good
           and
           benefit
           upon
           the
           learners
           ,
           which
           will
           profit
           them
           all
           the
           time
           of
           their
           life
           ,
           and
           be
           a
           commendation
           and
           ornament
           to
           them
           ,
           so
           as
           from
           thence
           they
           may
           contract
           to
           themselves
           a
           fair
           ,
           neat
           ,
           ingenuous
           ,
           pure
           and
           easie
           Latine
           stile
           ;
           not
           an
           obscure
           ,
           intricate
           ,
           crooked
           ,
           perplexed
           and
           uneven
           one
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           the
           most
           of
           the
           younger
           sort
           contract
           to
           themselves
           through
           the
           fault
           of
           their
           first
           and
           bad
           teaching
           while
           they
           are
           under
           their
           hate
           Masters
           commanded
           to
           draw
           at
           their
           own
           skill
           and
           discretion
           the
           liquor
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           out
           of
           impure
           rivulets
           and
           cisterns
           .
           And
           for
           the
           collecting
           easily
           ,
           and
           without
           any
           great
           toil
           these
           which
           I
           have
           spoke
           of
           ,
           brief
           and
           perspicuous
           Sentences
           ,
           in
           which
           well
           nigh
           all
           the
           parts
           ,
           voices
           ,
           words
           ,
           nouns
           ,
           verbs
           and
           termes
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           are
           comprehended
           and
           conteined
           ,
           there
           is
           indeed
           a
           very
           large
           field
           set
           open
           Hither
           may
           be
           referred
           Theological
           Aphorismes
           ,
           and
           brief
           and
           notable
           Sentences
           taken
           out
           of
           either
           Testament
           ,
           and
           that
           out
           of
           the
           best
           and
           Latine
           version
           such
           as
           these
           out
           of
           the
           Old
           :
           
             Creavit
             Deus
             hominem
             ad
             imaginem
             suam
             ,
          
           God
           created
           man
           after
           his
           own
           image
           ;
           
             Non
             est
             bonum
             hominum
             solum
             esse
             ,
          
           It
           is
           not
           good
           for
           man
           to
           be
           alone
           ;
           
             Pulvis
             ,
             &
             in
             pulverem
             rever●eris
             .
          
           Dust
           thou
           art
           ,
           and
           into
           dust
           thou
           shalt
           return
           .
           Out
           of
           the
           New
           :
           
             Deus
             ex
             Aegyptovocavit
             filium
             suum
             ,
          
           God
           called
           his
           Son
           out
           of
           Egypt
           ;
           
             Mortui
             sunt
             qui
             petebant
             animam
             pueri
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           They
           are
           dead
           who
           sought
           the
           childes
           life
           ,
           &c.
           
           Of
           which
           like
           Sentences
           there
           is
           very
           fair
           and
           most
           clear
           plenty
           in
           the
           History
           of
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           Epistles
           of
           the
           Apostle
           
             Paul
             .
          
           Also
           the
           Histories
           of
           the
           Old
           and
           New
           Testament
           reduced
           in
           a
           few
           words
           into
           a
           concise
           and
           perspicuous
           Sentence
           :
           As
           
             Deus
             die
             septimo
             quievit
             ab
             omni
             opere
             suo
             ,
          
           God
           rested
           the
           seventh
           day
           from
           all
           his
           work
           ;
           
             Deus
             condidit
             Evam
             è
             costa
             viri
             Adami
             ,
             &c
             ,
          
           God
           made
           
             Eve
          
           out
           of
           the
           man
           
             Adams
          
           rib
           ,
           &c.
           
           Also
           out
           of
           the
           New
           ,
           
             Magi
             ab
             Oriente
             venerunt
             Hierosolymam
             ,
          
           Wise
           men
           came
           from
           the
           East
           to
           Jerusalem
           ;
           
             Magi
             obtulerunt
             Christo
             nato
             curum
             ,
             thus
             ,
             
             &
             myrrham
             ,
          
           The
           wise
           men
           offered
           Christ
           when
           he
           was
           born
           ,
           gold
           ,
           frankincense
           and
           myrrhe
           ,
           &c.
           
           Likewise
           the
           excellent
           Sentences
           of
           the
           Fathers
           ;
           as
           ,
           
             Latet
             ultimus
             dies
             ,
             ut
             observetur
             omnis
             dies
             ,
          
           The
           last
           day
           is
           conceal'd
           ,
           that
           every
           day
           may
           be
           observ'd
           ;
           
             Ecclesiae
             ▪
             arma
             sunt
             preces
             &
             lachryme
             ,
          
           The
           Churches
           weapons
           are
           prayers
           and
           tears
           ;
           
             Maledictus
             qui
             florem
             JIuventutis
             Diabolo
             ,
             fecem
             Senectutis
             Deo
             consecrat
             ,
          
           Cursed
           is
           he
           who
           consecrates
           the
           flower
           of
           his
           youth
           to
           the
           Devil
           ,
           and
           the
           dregs
           of
           old
           age
           to
           God
           .
           And
           such
           other
           like
           .
           Also
           brief
           and
           witty
           common
           Sentences
           ;
           
             Sustine
             &
             abstine
             ,
          
           Bear
           and
           forbear
           ;
           
             Ferendum
             &
             sperandum
             .
          
           We
           must
           endure
           and
           hope
           ;
           
             Patior
             ut
             potiar
             ,
          
           I
           sustain
           to
           obtain
           .
           Likewise
           out
           of
           Latine
           Authors
           ,
           
             Quò
             se
             fortuna
             ,
             eodem
             favor
             hominum
             inclinat
             ,
          
           The
           favour
           of
           men
           inclines
           the
           same
           way
           which
           Fortune
           doth
           ;
           
             Vita
             sine
             literis
             mors
             est
             ,
          
           An
           illiterate
           life
           is
           no
           other
           then
           death
           ;
           
             Nemo
             nisi
             à
             scipso
             laeditur
             ,
          
           Every
           ones
           mischief
           is
           from
           himself
           ;
           
             Unus
             quisque
             suae
             fortunae
             faber
             est
             ,
          
           Every
           one
           's
           the
           contriver
           of
           his
           own
           fortune
           ;
           
             Qui
             vult
             dicere
             quae
             vult
             ,
             audiet
             quae
             non
             vult
             ,
          
           He
           who
           speaks
           what
           he
           will
           ,
           shall
           hear
           what
           he
           would
           not
           ;
           
             Famam
             multi
             ,
             conscientiam
             pauci
             verentur
             ,
          
           Many
           fear
           fame
           ,
           few
           conscience
           ;
           
             Sic
             vive
             cum
             hominibus
             tanquam
             Deus
             videat
             ,
             sic
             loquere
             cum
             Deo
             tanquam
             homines
             audiant
             ,
          
           Live
           so
           with
           men
           as
           God
           saw
           thee
           ,
           speak
           so
           with
           God
           as
           men
           heard
           thee
           ;
           
             Altissima
             stumina
             minimo
             labuntur
             sono
             ,
          
           The
           deepest
           river
           makes
           the
           least
           noise
           .
           Also
           all
           the
           most
           choice
           and
           memorable
           verses
           out
           of
           the
           Poets
           ,
           as
           
             Hemisticks
             ,
             Omne
             solum
             forti
             Patriaest
             ,
          
           Each
           soil
           is
           the
           valiant
           mans
           Countrey
           ;
           
             Non
             omnis
             fert
             omnia
             tellus
             ,
          
           No
           ground
           brings
           sorth
           all
           things
           ;
           
             Non
             omnia
             possumus
             omnes
             ,
          
           There
           's
           none
           good
           at
           every
           thing
           ;
           
             Nocet
             empta
             dolore
             voluptas
             ,
          
           We
           like
           not
           pleasure
           which
           is
           bought
           with
           grief
           .
           And
           
             Hexameters
             ;
             Quid
             juvat
             aspectus
             ,
             si
             non
             conceditur
             usus
             ?
          
           To
           what
           end
           is
           the
           view
           without
           the
           use
           ?
           
             Percunctatorem
             fugito
             ,
             nam
             garrulus
             idem
             est
             ,
          
           Avoid
           a
           medler
           ,
           for
           he
           loves
           to
           prate
           .
           And
           a
           thousand
           others
           .
           Also
           in
           other
           kindes
           of
           Verses
           ;
           
             Non
             si
             malè
             nunc
             ,
             &
             olim
             sic
             erit
             ,
          
           Though
           it
           may
           go
           ill
           now
           ,
           it
           shal
           not
           do
           so
           stil
           ;
           
             Quem
             dies
             vidit
             veniens
             superbum
             ,
             Hunc
             dies
             vidit
             fugiens
             jacetem
             ,
          
           He
           whom
           the
           morning
           did
           surveyin
           pride
           ,
           The
           evening
           groveling
           on
           the
           ground
           espi'd
           .
           Also
           all
           the
           choice
           ones
           of
           
             Mimus
             ;
             Ab
             alio
             expectes
             ,
             alteri
             quod
             feceris
             ,
          
           That
           which
           thou
           doest
           to
           one
           ,
           expect
           that
           from
           another
           .
           There
           may
           be
           likewise
           other
           Sentences
           added
           taken
           out
           of
           the
           common
           life
           of
           men
           ,
           yet
           with
           such
           choice
           are
           they
           to
           be
           made
           use
           of
           ,
           that
           they
           be
           both
           Latine
           ,
           and
           withall
           easie
           .
           As
           ,
           
             Rectè
             faciendo
             neminem
             
             timeas
             ,
          
           Do
           well
           and
           fear
           no body
           ;
           
             Sola
             miseriacaret
             invidiâ
             ,
          
           Misery
           onely
           is
           without
           envy
           ;
           
             Vbi
             nullum
             lumen
             ,
             ibi
             nulla
             umbra
             ;
             ubi
             nulla
             felicitas
             ,
             ibi
             nulla
             invidia
             ,
          
           Where
           there
           is
           no
           light
           ,
           there
           is
           no
           shadow
           ;
           where
           there
           is
           no
           felicity
           ,
           there
           is
           no
           envy
           .
           Also
           the
           more
           select
           Proverbs
           ;
           as
           ,
           
             Ne
             Hercules
             quidem
             adversus
             duos
             ,
          
           Contend
           not
           with
           a
           multitude
           ;
           
             Adversus
             solem
             
               {non-Roman}
               {non-Roman}
               {non-Roman}
               {non-Roman}
               {non-Roman}
            
             quitor
             ,
          
           Speak
           not
           against
           conscience
           .
           And
           innumerable
           others
           .
           And
           lest
           any
           one
           should
           think
           Grammar
           to
           be
           waved
           in
           such
           teaching
           ,
           that
           shall
           be
           taught
           not
           in
           Precepts
           ,
           but
           in
           Examples
           :
           this
           order
           may
           be
           used
           in
           disposing
           these
           ,
           that
           we
           go
           through
           all
           the
           Declensions
           ,
           Numbers
           ,
           and
           Cases
           :
           As
           in
           the
           first
           Declension
           ,
           
             Dignum
             laude
             virum
             Musa
             vetat
             mori
             ,
          
           Poetry
           preserves
           a
           worthy
           man
           from
           the
           death
           of
           oblivion
           :
           In
           the
           Genitive
           case
           ,
           
             Vitae
             summa
             brevis
             spem
             nos
             vetat
             inchoare
             longam
             ,
          
           The
           brevity
           of
           our
           life
           may
           check
           the
           length
           of
           our
           hope
           :
           In
           the
           Dative
           and
           Ablative
           ,
           
             Lis
             est
             cum
             forma
             magna
             pudicitiae
             ,
          
           There
           's
           a
           great
           strife
           between
           beauty
           and
           chastity
           :
           In
           the
           Accusative
           ,
           
             Barbam
             video
             ,
             Philosophum
             non
             video
             ,
          
           I
           see
           gravity
           ,
           but
           no
           Philosophy
           .
           Now
           in
           chusing
           such
           as
           these
           in
           such
           plenty
           of
           Authours
           there
           can
           be
           no
           difficulty
           .
           We
           may
           travel
           through
           all
           Verbs
           ,
           and
           their
           Moods
           ,
           Tenses
           ,
           and
           Persons
           :
           As
           ,
           
             Non
             amote
             Numici
             ,
             nec
             possum
             dicere
             quare
             ,
          
           I
           do
           not
           love
           thee
           
             Numicius
             ,
          
           nor
           can
           I
           give
           any
           reason
           why
           I
           do
           not
           ;
           
             Frustrà
             ploras
             ,
             quod
             recuperare
             non
             potes
             ,
          
           In
           vain
           thou
           deplorest
           for
           that
           which
           thou
           canst
           not
           recover
           ;
           
             Bis
             dat
             qui
             citò
             dat
             ,
          
           He
           gives
           a
           thing
           twice
           who
           gives
           it
           quickly
           .
           And
           especially
           let
           such
           examples
           be
           selected
           in
           Verbs
           ,
           in
           which
           the
           Preterperfect
           tense
           of
           the
           Verbs
           may
           be
           expressed
           :
           As
           ,
           
             Pauci
             quos
             aequus
             amavit
             Jupiter
             ,
             Atque
             ardens
             evexit
             ad
             aethera
             virtus
             ,
          
           They
           'r
           Few
           kinde
           
             Jove
          
           hath
           viewed
           with
           loving
           eyes
           ,
           And
           ardent
           vertue
           rais'd
           unto
           the
           skies
           .
           We
           may
           travel
           through
           all
           the
           Rules
           of
           the
           
             Syutax
             :
          
           As
           in
           the
           first
           Rule
           ,
           
             Mali
             corvi
             malum
             ovum
             est
             ,
          
           An
           ill
           bird
           layes
           an
           ill
           egge
           ;
           
             Vir
             bonus
             &
             malafortuna
             plerumque
             componuntur
             ,
          
           A
           good
           man
           and
           bad
           fortune
           do
           many
           times
           go
           together
           ;
           
             Optimus
             animus
             pulcherrimus
             Dei
             cultus
             ,
          
           That
           worship
           of
           God
           is
           the
           best
           ,
           which
           is
           performed
           with
           a
           good
           minde
           .
           Through
           all
           Genders
           ,
           Numbers
           ,
           and
           Cases
           .
           After
           the
           same
           manner
           all
           the
           other
           Rules
           may
           be
           propounded
           ,
           all
           the
           precepts
           being
           removed
           ,
           unlesse
           it
           be
           in
           the
           examples
           ,
           and
           we
           may
           proceed
           through
           all
           variety
           of
           construction
           ,
           of
           the
           Noun
           ,
           Pronoun
           ,
           Verb
           ,
           Participle
           ,
           Adverb
           ,
           Conjunction
           ,
           Preposition
           ,
           Interjection
           ,
           that
           no
           kinde
           of
           plain
           or
           figurative
           construction
           may
           be
           left
           out
           .
           And
           for
           this
           use
           there
           ought
           not
           onely
           to
           
           be
           gathered
           ,
           as
           hath
           been
           said
           ,
           out
           of
           the
           Holy
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           either
           Testament
           and
           the
           Authours
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           all
           most
           choice
           Phrases
           of
           Speech
           ,
           Formes
           and
           Sentences
           ,
           in
           which
           may
           occur
           all
           the
           more
           common
           termes
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           verbs
           ,
           nouns
           ,
           and
           words
           ,
           not
           so
           much
           as
           any
           word
           left
           or
           omitted
           .
           In
           which
           ,
           as
           in
           lively
           Examples
           ,
           all
           the
           precepts
           of
           Grammar
           may
           be
           shewn
           ,
           as
           in
           their
           use
           ▪
           ●…o
           which
           aim
           and
           end
           let
           there
           be
           heaped
           together
           termes
           and
           phrases
           out
           of
           all
           matters
           ,
           wherewith
           these
           Things
           which
           are
           anywhere
           to
           be
           met
           withall
           ,
           in
           peace
           ,
           or
           in
           war
           ;
           in
           leisure
           ,
           or
           in
           businesse
           may
           be
           expressed
           purely
           and
           in
           good
           Latine
           .
           Under
           which
           consideration
           ,
           there
           may
           be
           added
           likewise
           hither
           the
           Principles
           of
           
             Geometry
          
           of
           a
           ●oint
           ,
           of
           a
           Line
           ,
           of
           a
           
             Superficies
             ,
          
           of
           a
           Body
           ,
           of
           an
           Angle
           ,
           of
           a
           Triangle
           ,
           of
           a
           Quadrat
           ,
           of
           a
           
             Trapezium
             ,
          
           being
           common
           notions
           and
           the
           very
           first
           foundations
           of
           
             Arithmetick
          
           and
           
             Geometry
             ,
          
           which
           children
           did
           formerly
           learn
           in
           
             Greece
             ,
          
           and
           which
           things
           I
           have
           experienced
           by
           very
           Use
           ,
           that
           boyes
           with
           us
           but
           of
           seven
           years
           of
           age
           could
           learn
           by
           the
           Figures
           running
           into
           their
           eyes
           .
           There
           may
           be
           added
           the
           Multiplications
           of
           single
           Numbers
           in
           themselves
           ,
           which
           they
           call
           the
           Table
           of
           
             Pythagoras
             ,
          
           how
           many
           may
           be
           five
           times
           nine
           ?
           seven
           times
           eight
           ?
           nine
           times
           seven
           ?
           &c.
           which
           things
           by
           brief
           ,
           pleasant
           ,
           and
           ridiculous
           Examples
           and
           Figures
           even
           painted
           ,
           may
           be
           so
           exactly
           imprinted
           in
           the
           tender
           memory
           of
           that
           age
           ,
           as
           no
           forgetfulnesse
           afterward
           may
           blot
           them
           out
           or
           abolish
           them
           in
           the
           whole
           time
           of
           their
           life
           .
           To
           these
           there
           should
           be
           added
           ,
           and
           shewn
           to
           children
           all
           the
           circles
           in
           the
           Sphere
           ,
           there
           should
           be
           shewn
           them
           in
           the
           Celestial
           Globe
           all
           the
           Signes
           in
           Heaven
           of
           the
           Zodiack
           ,
           Northern
           and
           Southern
           .
           In
           the
           Terrestrial
           Globe
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           Geographical
           Tables
           there
           should
           be
           shewn
           them
           all
           the
           parts
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           the
           parts
           of
           parts
           .
           Artificiall
           memory
           may
           likewise
           be
           added
           to
           these
           things
           handsomely
           ;
           by
           the
           benefit
           whereof
           a
           boy
           of
           seven
           ,
           or
           truly
           of
           eight
           years
           old
           may
           learn
           each
           Genealogy
           of
           Christ
           in
           
             Matthew
             &
             Luke
             ,
          
           to
           rehearse
           it
           backward
           and
           forward
           ,
           all
           the
           Signes
           in
           heaven
           ,
           all
           the
           Names
           of
           the
           parts
           of
           the
           earth
           ,
           being
           shewn
           to
           him
           in
           a
           Tab●e
           or
           Globe
           ,
           the
           Names
           of
           all
           the
           Roman
           Emperours
           from
           
             Julius
          
           to
           the
           present
           
             Matthias
             .
          
           Which
           memory
           ,
           though
           it
           may
           seem
           to
           be
           of
           no
           great
           moment
           ,
           for
           that
           unlesse
           it
           be
           oftentimes
           now
           and
           then
           after
           certain
           ,
           and
           those
           no
           very
           long
           intervals
           of
           time
           be
           renued
           ,
           the
           images
           being
           extinct
           ,
           and
           the
           order
           of
           the
           places
           troubled
           or
           crossed
           ,
           after
           a
           few
           weeks
           it
           is
           again
           extinguished
           and
           defaced
           :
           
           yet
           it
           may
           be
           helped
           afterward
           by
           other
           Meanes
           and
           Wayes
           in
           those
           things
           ,
           to
           retein
           whose
           Order
           may
           be
           thought
           to
           be
           worth
           the
           while
           ,
           and
           quit
           for
           cost
           ,
           that
           it
           may
           be
           lasting
           ,
           and
           not
           easily
           be
           obliterated
           .
        
         
           Now
           here
           it
           may
           be
           demanded
           ,
           in
           what
           Order
           should
           these
           Sentences
           be
           propounded
           to
           boyes
           in
           Schools
           ?
           And
           indeed
           the
           matter
           it self
           and
           reason
           teaches
           us
           ,
           that
           Sentences
           taken
           out
           of
           Holy
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           the
           Fathers
           do
           challenge
           to
           themselves
           the
           former
           place
           .
           In
           the
           
             interim
             ,
          
           as
           I
           would
           have
           nothing
           in
           the
           whole
           University
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           to
           be
           baulked
           or
           over-passed
           ,
           which
           may
           not
           be
           produc'd
           once
           or
           twice
           in
           the
           use
           of
           Latine
           speech
           :
           so
           for
           the
           order
           ,
           I
           think
           ,
           we
           ought
           not
           to
           be
           greatly
           solicitous
           .
           For
           the
           very
           variety
           of
           Things
           ,
           in
           which
           sacred
           shall
           be
           put
           with
           wordly
           ,
           sweet
           with
           profitable
           ,
           serious
           matters
           with
           jesting
           ,
           yet
           honest
           ,
           and
           wholly
           remote
           from
           all
           filthinesse
           and
           obscenity
           ,
           will
           shake
           off
           from
           boyes
           all
           wearisomnesse
           of
           learning
           ,
           and
           will
           render
           them
           more
           prompt
           and
           expedite
           of
           thinking
           or
           speaking
           ought
           concerning
           any
           businesse
           propounded
           in
           any
           place
           and
           time
           .
           In
           which
           thing
           I
           shall
           neverthelesse
           willingly
           follow
           the
           judgements
           of
           the
           more
           learned
           .
           Yea
           moreover
           ,
           the
           very
           use
           of
           this
           teaching
           and
           exercise
           ,
           as
           the
           Mistris
           of
           all
           these
           things
           ,
           vvill
           perfectly
           teach
           ,
           what
           order
           it
           may
           be
           expedient
           to
           hold
           .
        
         
           And
           by
           this
           means
           it
           will
           come
           to
           passe
           at
           length
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           be
           learned
           in
           all
           the
           parts
           ,
           terms
           ,
           nouns
           ,
           verbs
           ,
           words
           ,
           and
           even
           in
           the
           least
           particles
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           .
           And
           who
           in
           sound
           reason
           can
           ever
           come
           to
           these
           ,
           vvho
           after
           the
           Precepts
           of
           Grammar
           ,
           in
           vvhich
           for
           so
           many
           years
           boyes
           are
           deteined
           ,
           as
           it
           vvere
           in
           bonds
           and
           fetters
           ,
           do
           propound
           at
           last
           some
           Author
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           and
           in
           exacting
           of
           that
           according
           to
           the
           Precepts
           of
           Grammar
           stay
           oftentimes
           a
           year
           or
           two
           ,
           and
           detain
           their
           Scholars
           ;
           as
           for
           example
           ,
           
             Tulli●s
          
           Epistles
           ,
           
             Terence
             ,
             &c.
          
           yet
           in
           which
           although
           Roman
           Authours
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           many
           things
           ,
           yea
           very
           many
           ,
           and
           well
           near
           all
           occur
           which
           have
           not
           as
           yet
           been
           fitted
           to
           that
           age
           of
           Children
           .
           Besides
           there
           are
           to
           be
           met
           withall
           in
           these
           onely
           a
           few
           termes
           and
           words
           ,
           nor
           is
           there
           contained
           in
           them
           all
           the
           variety
           of
           the
           phrases
           of
           the
           Latine
           speech
           .
           For
           these
           Authors
           writ
           of
           some
           certain
           matter
           propounded
           to
           them
           ,
           not
           out
           of
           that
           intent
           ,
           that
           they
           might
           teach
           boyes
           in
           Schools
           the
           Roman
           Tongue
           ,
           or
           that
           they
           might
           express
           in
           these
           their
           writings
           all
           the
           variety
           and
           plenty
           of
           
           the
           Roman
           Tongue
           .
           These
           Authours
           when
           striplings
           or
           youths
           have
           in
           Schools
           scarce
           lightly
           tasted
           ,
           they
           are
           by
           and
           by
           admitted
           to
           Arts
           and
           Faculties
           .
           And
           indeed
           many
           excellent
           things
           for
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           may
           be
           learned
           out
           of
           these
           Authours
           ,
           but
           not
           by
           Childrens
           age
           ,
           nor
           in
           that
           manner
           and
           order
           .
           And
           hence
           it
           comes
           to
           passe
           ,
           that
           when
           many
           in
           Schools
           have
           learned
           after
           a
           sort
           the
           Principles
           of
           Latine
           speech
           out
           of
           these
           Authours
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           and
           afterwards
           scarcely
           or
           at
           least
           slightly
           touch
           other
           Authours
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           but
           forthwith
           betake
           themselves
           to
           Arts
           and
           Faculties
           ,
           there
           is
           that
           scantinesse
           and
           lack
           of
           the
           Latine
           speech
           in
           many
           ,
           so
           as
           if
           they
           meet
           with
           any
           lesse
           frequent
           or
           more
           unusual
           Thing
           to
           be
           expressed
           in
           Latine
           speech
           ,
           phrase
           ,
           or
           term
           ,
           which
           may
           not
           be
           found
           in
           those
           little
           Authours
           ,
           which
           they
           have
           read
           and
           learned
           ,
           they
           are
           quite
           at
           a
           stand
           ,
           they
           scratch
           their
           head
           ,
           bite
           the
           nail
           ,
           and
           are
           not
           able
           to
           unfold
           themselves
           ,
           or
           at
           the
           least
           they
           slyridiculously
           to
           general
           and
           common
           ,
           or
           neighbour
           words
           ,
           which
           are
           more
           known
           ,
           not
           signifying
           this
           but
           another
           thing
           .
        
         
           I
           therefore
           am
           altogether
           of
           opinion
           ,
           that
           these
           Exercises
           &
           Essayes
           be
           premised
           out
           of
           such
           a
           Book
           as
           may
           be
           called
           as
           it
           were
           
             Pandects
          
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           before
           they
           be
           put
           to
           those
           further
           Exercises
           of
           writing
           and
           Arguments
           ,
           as
           they
           call
           them
           ,
           in
           which
           they
           are
           enjoyned
           to
           turn
           Dutch
           into
           Latine
           ,
           and
           admitted
           to
           hear
           ,
           and
           presently
           after
           to
           read
           Latine
           ,
           Romane
           Authours
           .
           And
           these
           being
           premised
           ,
           at
           length
           Latine
           Authours
           are
           to
           be
           propounded
           to
           them
           ,
           yet
           so
           as
           they
           may
           be
           ,
           without
           using
           any
           Dictates
           or
           Precepts
           explained
           to
           them
           in
           a
           plain
           and
           perspicuous
           interpretation
           ;
           and
           so
           as
           they
           may
           be
           dispatched
           in
           as
           little
           a
           space
           of
           time
           as
           may
           be
           ,
           that
           afterwards
           even
           divers
           others
           may
           be
           subjoyned
           .
           For
           I
           speak
           of
           the
           teaching
           of
           boyes
           in
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           not
           of
           the
           teaching
           of
           young
           men
           who
           are
           more
           advanced
           ,
           to
           whom
           the
           exercise
           of
           Logick
           or
           Rhetorick
           is
           shewn
           in
           Authours
           ,
           which
           things
           neither
           may
           nor
           ought
           to
           be
           propounded
           to
           boyes
           .
        
         
           And
           these
           things
           touching
           this
           First
           Way
           and
           Course
           ,
           which
           seems
           may
           be
           laid
           for
           boys
           and
           youths
           to
           learn
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           I
           have
           been
           minded
           to
           set
           forth
           briefly
           ,
           being
           about
           to
           reserve
           in
           the
           mean
           while
           for
           another
           place
           and
           time
           many
           and
           choiser
           other
           things
           ,
           which
           the
           nature
           of
           this
           Epistle
           doth
           not
           admit
           ;
           If
           I
           shall
           understand
           ,
           that
           these
           things
           which
           I
           have
           been
           willing
           to
           shadow
           forth
           out
           of
           a
           good
           intent
           ,
           and
           to
           write
           with
           the
           right
           hand
           ,
           shall
           not
           be
           received
           with
           the
           left
           hand
           ,
           or
           be
           
           rejected
           and
           exploded
           .
           Now
           concerning
           that
           other
           most
           expedite
           and
           certain
           Way
           of
           learning
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           I
           shall
           say
           little
           or
           nothing
           here
           .
           Because
           that
           although
           it
           would
           be
           in
           it self
           the
           least
           of
           all
           painful
           ,
           yet
           it
           may
           seem
           rather
           to
           be
           wished
           for
           then
           to
           be
           obtained
           ,
           that
           ,
           what
           ought
           to
           have
           been
           done
           long
           since
           many
           ages
           ago
           ,
           may
           in
           this
           last
           age
           of
           the
           world
           be
           excited
           and
           set
           afoot
           by
           some
           revived
           
             Charlemain
             ,
          
           or
           Great
           Patron
           and
           Parent
           of
           Learning
           and
           learned
           men
           ;
           to
           wit
           ,
           that
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           might
           be
           so
           learned
           ,
           as
           the
           Greeks
           ,
           Hebrews
           ,
           Germanes
           ,
           Vandals
           and
           Scythians
           learned
           it
           in
           former
           times
           ;
           by
           going
           namely
           to
           
             Rome
             ,
          
           and
           into
           
             Italy
             ,
          
           at
           that
           time
           ,
           when
           as
           yet
           they
           used
           it
           pure
           and
           Roman
           .
           That
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           it
           might
           be
           learned
           without
           any
           native
           and
           mother-tongue
           ,
           by
           meer
           Custome
           ,
           Converse
           ,
           and
           Use
           ,
           with
           those
           who
           could
           speak
           the
           Latine
           and
           Roman
           Tongue
           very
           purely
           and
           readily
           .
           And
           because
           such
           a
           Place
           where
           they
           speak
           in
           this
           sort
           the
           Romane
           Tongue
           onely
           ,
           is
           not
           found
           in
           the
           world
           ,
           it
           should
           be
           provided
           by
           Art
           .
        
         
           This
           Way
           though
           it
           would
           be
           the
           most
           expedite
           and
           certain
           in
           it self
           ,
           yet
           far
           sooner
           and
           easier
           ,
           and
           with
           lesse
           cost
           and
           provision
           might
           all
           things
           necessary
           for
           this
           businesse
           be
           procured
           ,
           then
           any
           one
           will
           believe
           .
           If
           so
           be
           some
           Emperour
           or
           King
           ,
           yea
           even
           some
           Prince
           or
           Magistrate
           in
           any
           Common-wealth
           ,
           would
           in
           this
           age
           vouchsafe
           to
           light
           a
           taper
           or
           torch
           ;
           for
           the
           studies
           of
           Learning
           &
           the
           Tongues
           being
           a dying
           ,
           and
           almost
           extinct
           ,
           and
           raise
           and
           revoke
           from
           death
           and
           Hell
           not
           the
           Latine
           onely
           ,
           but
           also
           the
           Greek
           and
           Hebrew
           ,
           and
           other
           bordering
           Tongues
           ,
           not
           onely
           so
           profitable
           and
           necessary
           for
           Empires
           ,
           Kingdoms
           ,
           Principalities
           ,
           and
           Common-wealths
           ,
           but
           also
           for
           the
           sick
           and
           already
           dying
           Church
           of
           God
           .
           Now
           how
           small
           a
           thing
           were
           it
           ,
           considering
           this
           so
           profitable
           a
           businesse
           ,
           to
           set
           up
           in
           Principalities
           or
           Kingdomes
           a
           
             Coenobium
             ,
          
           Colledge
           ,
           or
           Place
           suitable
           hereunto
           .
           How
           small
           a
           thing
           were
           it
           to
           call
           forth
           to
           such
           places
           by
           good
           stipends
           ,
           Worthy
           men
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           are
           very
           skilful
           in
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           who
           should
           use
           onely
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           and
           that
           indeed
           pure
           and
           Roman
           ,
           and
           should
           be
           compelled
           to
           this
           very
           thing
           by
           certain
           and
           severe
           Orders
           .
           Nor
           they
           themselves
           onely
           ,
           but
           also
           their
           Servants
           &
           Attendants
           ,
           and
           as
           they
           use
           to
           say
           ,
           the
           Scullions
           in
           the
           Kitchin
           .
           I
           doubt
           not
           but
           these
           things
           are
           like
           to
           be
           taught
           at
           by
           many
           ,
           and
           perhaps
           never
           to
           be
           assayed
           by
           any
           one
           ,
           which
           neverthelesse
           none
           can
           deny
           to
           be
           be
           certain
           and
           easie
           ,
           but
           he
           who
           forswears
           Wit
           and
           Reason
           .
           For
           although
           it
           may
           seem
           to
           be
           hard
           and
           difficult
           to
           get
           such
           
           Men
           ,
           Servants
           ,
           Ministers
           ,
           and
           other
           things
           which
           may
           be
           requisite
           for
           this
           matter
           ;
           neverthelesse
           ,
           if
           even
           indifferent
           stipends
           be
           set
           for
           each
           of
           them
           ;
           yea
           indeed
           ,
           if
           some
           who
           are
           not
           unfit
           for
           this
           purpose
           ,
           shall
           but
           be
           able
           to
           maintain
           themselves
           ,
           or
           have
           a
           lively-hood
           from
           thence
           ,
           all
           this
           difficulty
           may
           be
           easily
           overcome
           .
           And
           there
           may
           be
           chosen
           to
           this
           purpose
           not
           onely
           most
           excellent
           Men
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           are
           most
           skilful
           of
           the
           Roman
           Language
           ,
           who
           would
           be
           Presidents
           ,
           Rectors
           and
           Governours
           in
           such
           a
           place
           ,
           as
           in
           some
           Romane
           Colony
           .
           But
           also
           Students
           accommodated
           and
           fit
           for
           that
           businesse
           ,
           who
           would
           perform
           those
           inferiour
           offices
           .
           Boys
           and
           striplings
           might
           be
           sent
           hither
           as
           into
           a
           
             Forum
             ;
             Romanum
             .
          
           Who
           if
           they
           were
           altogether
           ignorant
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           at
           the
           first
           entrance
           the
           beginning
           thereof
           would
           be
           a
           little
           harder
           ,
           and
           more
           time
           would
           be
           required
           to
           learn
           it
           ,
           yet
           not
           above
           the
           space
           of
           two
           years
           ,
           as
           I
           verily
           perswade
           my self
           .
           But
           if
           by
           such
           exercises
           and
           Essayes
           ,
           of
           which
           I
           have
           spoken
           largely
           before
           ,
           one
           might
           be
           brought
           to
           the
           first
           entries
           and
           portals
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           (
           which
           might
           be
           done
           within
           two
           years
           )
           one
           might
           be
           brought
           within
           a
           years
           space
           to
           the
           full
           Use
           and
           benefit
           of
           the
           Latine
           Speech
           ,
           about
           ten
           or
           however
           eleven
           years
           of
           age
           ,
           to
           that
           knowledge
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           that
           one
           might
           then
           read
           Authours
           with
           profit
           ,
           and
           then
           give
           ones
           minde
           to
           other
           Tongues
           ,
           and
           by
           and
           by
           to
           Arts
           and
           Faculties
           .
           And
           it
           might
           be
           wished
           that
           those
           boyes
           who
           should
           be
           seasoned
           with
           the
           Fundamentalls
           and
           Principles
           of
           the
           Latine
           speech
           in
           that
           Way
           ,
           which
           I
           have
           formerly
           explained
           ,
           should
           be
           presently
           entertained
           by
           such
           a
           
             Coenobium
          
           or
           Community
           ,
           in
           which
           there
           might
           be
           onely
           the
           most
           pure
           use
           of
           the
           Latine
           and
           Romane
           speech
           ,
           and
           should
           be
           exercised
           in
           it
           for
           a
           year
           or
           two
           .
           Yet
           althought
           this
           later
           Way
           of
           which
           I
           have
           now
           begun
           to
           speak
           ,
           might
           be
           sufficient
           for
           them
           to
           learn
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           and
           might
           within
           the
           space
           of
           two
           years
           ,
           or
           not
           much
           more
           ,
           dismisse
           one
           not
           ignorant
           of
           the
           Latine
           Speech
           .
           Neverthelesse
           ,
           that
           former
           Way
           ,
           which
           consists
           of
           the
           Pictures
           of
           all
           visible
           Things
           ,
           and
           of
           Sentences
           added
           to
           the
           same
           ,
           might
           even
           here
           be
           profitably
           used
           ;
           so
           that
           it
           might
           be
           dispatched
           by
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           alone
           ,
           to
           which
           as
           the
           one
           and
           onely
           Tongue
           this
           place
           should
           be
           consecrated
           ,
           without
           any
           Dutch
           as
           Interpreter
           ,
           which
           should
           be
           utterly
           banished
           out
           of
           this
           place
           .
           Now
           what
           exercises
           might
           be
           instituted
           by
           alternate
           courses
           in
           such
           a
           Roman
           Colony
           ,
           Sacred
           ,
           Serious
           ,
           Sportive
           ,
           and
           agreeable
           to
           ingenuous
           Children
           ,
           by
           which
           they
           might
           learn
           to
           expresse
           
           in
           the
           Latine
           or
           Roman
           speech
           whatsoever
           shall
           occur
           in
           all
           the
           names
           ,
           terms
           ,
           words
           ,
           phrases
           and
           formes
           thereof
           ,
           and
           in
           all
           the
           parts
           of
           a
           Mans
           life
           ,
           and
           concerning
           what
           matters
           of
           humane
           life
           they
           might
           explicate
           the
           meaning
           of
           the
           minde
           in
           pure
           Latine
           Language
           ,
           I
           do
           not
           adde
           here
           .
           Well
           near
           all
           those
           things
           which
           may
           seem
           to
           absolve
           this
           whole
           businesse
           ,
           have
           been
           meditated
           by
           me
           long
           since
           ,
           and
           might
           be
           set
           out
           ,
           if
           God
           should
           by
           any
           hap
           vouchsafe
           to
           excite
           a
           King
           ,
           Prince
           ,
           or
           Magistrate
           ,
           by
           whom
           he
           might
           deign
           to
           begin
           and
           compleat
           a
           Work
           so
           laudable
           and
           profitable
           to
           Mankinde
           ,
           &
           in
           it
           to
           the
           distressed
           Church
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           parts
           of
           the
           Common-wealth
           ,
           and
           of
           mens
           whole
           life
           ;
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           :
           but
           these
           are
           but
           wishes
           .
           Indeed
           I
           am
           confident
           by
           Gods
           grace
           ,
           and
           verily
           perswaded
           of
           this
           ;
           if
           such
           a
           Romane
           Colonie
           ,
           as
           I
           may
           term
           it
           ,
           were
           set
           up
           ,
           that
           the
           Roman
           Tongue
           might
           be
           learned
           in
           it
           ,
           no
           lesse
           quickly
           ,
           and
           perhaps
           no
           lesse
           certainly
           and
           fully
           ,
           then
           formerly
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           
             Suburra
          
           or
           
             Forum
             Romanum
             .
          
           For
           as
           they
           who
           came
           out
           of
           
             Greece
          
           or
           
             Palestine
             ,
          
           or
           other
           parts
           of
           the
           world
           unto
           
             Rome
          
           to
           learn
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           might
           there
           forthwith
           by
           Custome
           and
           daily
           Use
           learn
           as
           much
           as
           could
           be
           to
           expresse
           and
           utter
           vulgar
           Things
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           occur
           daily
           in
           common
           life
           :
           neverthelesse
           ,
           there
           did
           not
           occur
           there
           all
           the
           parts
           of
           a
           mans
           other
           life
           to
           be
           expressed
           in
           their
           termes
           ,
           formes
           ,
           and
           Roman
           phrases
           .
           But
           all
           these
           things
           might
           by
           some
           certain
           exercises
           appointed
           hereunto
           ,
           be
           learned
           in
           such
           a
           Colony
           as
           I
           have
           spoken
           of
           more
           fully
           and
           copiously
           .
           That
           so
           there
           might
           after
           two
           or
           at
           the
           most
           three
           years
           ,
           be
           sent
           forth
           ,
           out
           of
           this
           Roman
           Colony
           ,
           such
           as
           might
           declare
           promptly
           and
           readily
           in
           the
           Latine
           and
           Romane
           speech
           the
           thoughts
           and
           meditations
           of
           their
           minde
           touching
           all
           things
           which
           occur
           in
           mans
           life
           in
           peace
           or
           war
           ,
           in
           vacancy
           or
           employment
           .
           But
           if
           this
           might
           be
           done
           ,
           as
           by
           Gods
           help
           ,
           I
           am
           verily
           perswaded
           ,
           in
           a
           short
           interval
           of
           time
           ,
           that
           ought
           to
           be
           reputed
           and
           taken
           as
           a
           matter
           of
           vantage
           .
           These
           things
           ,
           most
           Illustrious
           Prince
           ,
           I
           thought
           good
           by
           occasion
           of
           this
           Epistle
           ,
           to
           expose
           to
           your
           Highnesse
           ,
           which
           I
           could
           wish
           were
           such
           ,
           as
           might
           not
           displease
           it
           ,
           which
           likes
           onely
           the
           best
           !
           I
           could
           wish
           also
           that
           others
           would
           accept
           of
           them
           in
           that
           manner
           as
           they
           come
           from
           me
           .
           Whatsoever
           it
           may
           be
           ,
           I
           have
           been
           willing
           to
           provide
           for
           Children
           that
           they
           might
           be
           brought
           sooner
           and
           more
           maturely
           then
           hitherto
           to
           those
           studies
           of
           wisdome
           ,
           and
           principally
           ,
           to
           that
           true
           and
           eternal
           wisdome
           Christ
           Jesus
           ,
           who
           bids
           Children
           come
           unto
           him
           ,
           and
           saith
           expresly
           ,
           
             That
             
             theirs
             is
             the
             Kingdome
             of
             Heaven
             .
          
           And
           that
           I
           might
           be
           helpful
           to
           these
           ,
           I
           have
           been
           willing
           to
           set
           forth
           this
           New
           Edition
           of
           the
           New
           Testament
           ,
           whose
           former
           part
           I
           now
           publish
           .
           To
           wit
           ,
           from
           whence
           Children
           might
           learn
           the
           Latine
           ,
           and
           straightway
           being
           striplings
           ,
           the
           Greek
           Tongue
           .
           Yea
           ,
           the
           very
           comparing
           of
           the
           Tongues
           wil
           not
           haply
           be
           unprofitable
           to
           Divines
           &
           learned
           men
           .
           I
           have
           faithfully
           reteined
           the
           Dutch
           Translation
           of
           
             Luther
             ,
          
           to
           which
           I
           have
           been
           forced
           sometimes
           to
           misplace
           the
           Greek
           Text
           ;
           and
           that
           with
           this
           intent
           ,
           that
           I
           might
           accommodate
           these
           things
           to
           Children
           .
           In
           which
           matter
           ,
           such
           as
           are
           more
           skilful
           in
           the
           Greek
           Language
           shall
           pardon
           me
           ,
           as
           also
           in
           many
           other
           things
           ,
           which
           I
           could
           not
           easily
           avoid
           in
           this
           my
           Designe
           .
           I
           with
           reverence
           beseech
           your
           Illustrious
           Highnesse
           to
           take
           these
           things
           ,
           such
           as
           they
           be
           ,
           in
           good
           worth
           ,
           and
           to
           reckon
           me
           among
           yours
           still
        
         
           
             Datell
             at
             Rostoch
             ,
             
               Mart.
               18.
               
               An.
               Dom.
               1614.
               
            
          
           
             Your
             most
             Illustrious
             Highnesses
             Reverent
             ,
             and
             Submisse
             Observer
             Eilhard
             Lubine
             ,
          
        
      
       
       
         
           
             THE
             True
             and
             Ready
             Way
             to
             learn
             the
             Latine
             Tongue
             :
             Expressed
             in
             an
             Answer
             to
             a
          
           Quere
           ,
           Whether
           the
           ordinary
           Way
           of
           teaching
           Latine
           by
           the
           Rules
           of
           Grammar
           ,
           be
           the
           best
           Way
           for
           youths
           to
           learn
           it
           ?
           
             By
             the
             late
             Learned
             and
             Judicious
             Gentleman
             Mr.
          
           Richard
           Carew
           
             of
          
           Anthony
           
             in
          
           Cornwall
           .
        
         
           IN
           my
           tender
           youth
           I
           was
           by
           my
           Father
           put
           to
           School
           ,
           and
           so
           continued
           for
           nine
           or
           ten
           years
           to
           learn
           Latine
           according
           to
           the
           common
           teaching
           of
           ordinary
           Schoolmasters
           ,
           by
           the
           Rules
           of
           
             Lillies
          
           Grammar
           .
           Afterward
           I
           spent
           three
           years
           in
           the
           University
           of
           
             Oxford
             ,
          
           and
           three
           years
           more
           in
           the
           Middle
           Temple
           ,
           one
           of
           our
           Innes
           of
           Court
           .
           From
           thence
           I
           was
           sent
           with
           mine
           Uncle
           in
           his
           Ambassage
           beyond
           the
           Seas
           ,
           unto
           the
           King
           of
           
             Poland
             ,
          
           whom
           when
           we
           came
           to
           
             Dantzig
             ,
          
           we
           found
           to
           have
           been
           newly
           gone
           from
           thence
           into
           
             Sweden
             ,
          
           whither
           also
           we
           went
           after
           him
           ;
           and
           in
           this
           journey
           ,
           wanting
           the
           native
           Language
           of
           those
           Countreys
           ,
           I
           was
           often
           inforced
           to
           use
           the
           help
           of
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           to
           buy
           such
           things
           as
           we
           needed
           ,
           and
           to
           conferre
           with
           many
           Persons
           ,
           being
           often
           imployed
           by
           mine
           Uncles
           direction
           ,
           to
           deliver
           Messages
           and
           receive
           Answers
           both
           to
           and
           from
           many
           great
           persons
           of
           the
           Dutch
           ,
           Swedish
           and
           Polish
           Nations
           .
           And
           therein
           found
           a
           great
           defect
           in
           the
           want
           of
           usuall
           talking
           in
           former
           time
           in
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ;
           because
           I
           had
           often
           occasion
           to
           call
           for
           such
           things
           ,
           and
           at
           other
           times
           to
           mention
           such
           things
           as
           we
           did
           seldome
           or
           never
           meet
           with
           the
           names
           
           of
           the
           same
           in
           our
           Books
           .
           After
           my
           return
           and
           short
           staying
           here
           I
           was
           sent
           by
           my
           Father
           into
           
             France
          
           with
           Sir
           
             Henry-Nevill
             ,
          
           who
           was
           then
           Ambassadour
           Leiger
           unto
           
             Henry
          
           the
           Fourth
           ,
           that
           there
           I
           might
           learn
           the
           French
           Tongue
           ,
           which
           Language
           ,
           though
           it
           seemed
           very
           hard
           to
           me
           in
           the
           beginning
           ,
           because
           mine
           ignorante
           made
           me
           unable
           to
           distinguish
           one
           word
           from
           another
           ,
           and
           so
           imagine
           that
           those
           people
           used
           to
           talk
           much
           faster
           then
           we
           did
           ,
           in
           a
           little
           time
           ,
           when
           by
           often-hearing
           their
           talk
           ,
           I
           began
           to
           discern
           the
           distance
           of
           one
           word
           from
           another
           ,
           I
           found
           they
           used
           to
           talk
           rather
           more
           deliberately
           then
           we
           do
           ;
           and
           so
           by
           reading
           and
           talking
           ,
           I
           learn'd
           more
           French
           in
           three
           quarters
           of
           a
           year
           then
           I
           had
           done
           Latine
           in
           above
           thirteen
           ;
           wherein
           though
           I
           will
           not
           deny
           but
           the
           Use
           of
           my
           Latine
           Grammar
           did
           something
           help
           me
           to
           make
           me
           the
           better
           apprehend
           the
           Coherence
           of
           speech
           ,
           yet
           I
           have
           ever
           since
           conceived
           ,
           upon
           my
           learning
           by
           practice
           ,
           that
           usuall
           Talking
           ,
           and
           much
           Writing
           and
           Reading
           open
           a
           surer
           and
           readier
           Way
           to
           attain
           any
           Tongue
           ,
           then
           the
           tedious
           course
           which
           is
           used
           in
           the
           Latine
           by
           construing
           and
           pearsing
           according
           to
           the
           Rules
           of
           Grammar
           ,
           in
           observing
           of
           the
           Number
           ,
           Gender
           ,
           Case
           ,
           and
           Declension
           of
           all
           variable
           words
           ;
           partly
           because
           so
           much
           time
           is
           spent
           in
           the
           declination
           of
           every
           word
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           Formes
           set
           down
           in
           the
           Grammar
           ;
           and
           partly
           in
           the
           over-loading
           of
           the
           weak
           wits
           of
           youths
           with
           such
           a
           multitude
           of
           ordinary
           Rules
           ,
           and
           such
           a
           world
           of
           Exceptions
           in
           particular
           words
           ,
           as
           are
           acknowledged
           to
           differ
           from
           the
           generall
           Rules
           ,
           as
           is
           able
           to
           confound
           both
           the
           Memory
           and
           Understanding
           of
           men
           of
           years
           ;
           besides
           ,
           the
           hard
           gnawing
           of
           the
           dry
           bones
           which
           are
           able
           to
           tire
           their
           jawes
           ,
           and
           take
           away
           the
           edge
           of
           their
           teeth
           ,
           before
           they
           can
           break
           them
           into
           such
           pieces
           ,
           as
           will
           be
           fit
           for
           their
           weak
           stomacks
           ,
           because
           after
           the
           Grammar-fashion
           they
           are
           employed
           to
           transform
           them
           into
           so
           many
           several
           shapes
           ,
           as
           Art
           can
           devise
           to
           turn
           them
           into
           ,
           and
           yet
           all
           this
           while
           they
           gain
           the
           knowledge
           of
           the
           sense
           but
           of
           one
           word
           ,
           whereas
           the
           Understanding
           of
           a
           Language
           ,
           requires
           the
           knowledge
           of
           the
           sense
           of
           all
           ;
           and
           by
           the
           way
           which
           I
           shew
           not
           onely
           the
           knowledge
           of
           many
           words
           ,
           but
           of
           many
           sentences
           ,
           are
           learn'd
           with
           delight
           ,
           in
           giving
           light
           to
           the
           understanding
           ,
           by
           the
           excellency
           of
           the
           Authours
           ,
           which
           have
           left
           their
           Works
           for
           the
           bettering
           of
           the
           knowledge
           of
           the
           after-ages
           ,
           by
           the
           experience
           of
           their
           times
           .
           And
           at
           last
           there
           is
           more
           learn'd
           by
           the
           practice
           of
           Reading
           ,
           then
           there
           was
           in
           the
           long
           School-teaching
           .
           These
           and
           many
           other
           things
           have
           made
           
           me
           a
           little
           to
           look
           after
           the
           Naturall
           Course
           of
           Learning
           ,
           divers
           Languages
           ;
           and
           so
           I
           finde
           that
           Languages
           were
           not
           first
           devised
           by
           the
           Rules
           of
           Grammar
           ,
           but
           the
           Rules
           of
           Grammar
           were
           framed
           according
           to
           the
           common
           practice
           of
           Speech
           ,
           which
           when
           in
           many
           Words
           and
           Phrases
           the
           particulars
           differ
           from
           the
           generall
           ,
           they
           make
           up
           a
           huge
           number
           of
           Exceptions
           .
           And
           that
           we
           finde
           after
           the
           tongue
           hath
           inabled
           boys
           and
           girles
           to
           pronounce
           the
           words
           they
           hear
           ,
           a
           few
           years
           practice
           makes
           their
           tongues
           run
           nimbly
           away
           with
           any
           thing
           they
           desire
           to
           say
           ,
           and
           as
           quickly
           apprehend
           what
           they
           hear
           ,
           and
           that
           with
           lesse
           offence
           to
           
             Priscian
             ,
          
           and
           lesse
           study
           ,
           though
           sometimes
           by
           mischance
           they
           break
           his
           head
           ,
           yet
           lesse
           and
           seldomer
           then
           great
           Clerks
           do
           in
           other
           Languages
           .
           Because
           Common
           Use
           teacheth
           them
           a
           speedier
           measure
           by
           their
           practice
           then
           line
           and
           levell
           could
           do
           .
           Besides
           ,
           I
           finde
           a
           great
           difference
           in
           the
           very
           naturall
           framing
           of
           the
           Languages
           ,
           for
           in
           our
           English
           tongue
           a
           word
           misplaced
           alters
           the
           sence
           exceedingly
           ,
           as
           every
           one
           conceives
           the
           difference
           between
           a
           horse-mill
           and
           a
           mill-horse
           ,
           which
           is
           not
           so
           in
           Latine
           ,
           and
           the
           Verb
           in
           Latine
           is
           seldome
           joyned
           with
           the
           same
           word
           we
           do
           in
           English
           ,
           and
           the
           Adjective
           commonly
           followes
           the
           Substantive
           ,
           whereas
           we
           commonly
           put
           him
           before
           the
           same
           ,
           and
           say
           (
           a
           good
           man
           )
           they
           say
           (
           a
           man
           good
           ;
           )
           and
           in
           common
           talk
           one
           word
           serves
           instead
           of
           a
           Dictionary
           to
           help
           the
           understanding
           of
           another
           .
           By
           which
           reason
           mine
           own
           Father
           learn'd
           of
           himself
           by
           continuall
           Reading
           ,
           the
           Greek
           ,
           Dutch
           ,
           French
           ,
           Italian
           and
           Spanish
           Tongues
           ,
           onely
           by
           Reading
           ,
           without
           any
           other
           teaching
           :
           And
           it
           is
           a
           thing
           plainly
           observed
           by
           a
           multitude
           of
           persons
           who
           never
           learnt
           the
           Rules
           of
           Grammar
           ,
           what
           Errors
           Forreigners
           commit
           ,
           as
           well
           in
           mistaking
           their
           words
           ,
           as
           in
           their
           undue
           pronouncing
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           will
           assoon
           shew
           their
           Errors
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           had
           been
           directed
           by
           Grammar
           .
           I
           have
           also
           conferred
           with
           many
           Gentlemen
           ,
           who
           (
           having
           learn'd
           Grammar
           by
           Rule
           ,
           and
           forreign
           Languages
           by
           roat
           )
           have
           likewise
           acknowledged
           ,
           how
           much
           more
           they
           profited
           by
           practice
           then
           by
           precept
           ,
           and
           likewise
           how
           much
           worse
           it
           sped
           with
           those
           who
           followed
           the
           Grammar
           Rules
           of
           those
           forreign
           Tongues
           ,
           then
           with
           others
           who
           neglected
           them
           ,
           and
           plied
           the
           practice
           of
           speech
           .
           I
           could
           wish
           therefore
           that
           ,
           when
           Children
           are
           first
           taught
           the
           Grammar
           ,
           instead
           of
           that
           ,
           they
           were
           employed
           in
           much
           Reading
           and
           Writing
           ,
           and
           turning
           their
           Latine
           Books
           into
           English
           ,
           and
           returning
           the
           same
           back
           again
           into
           Latine
           ;
           whereby
           they
           should
           in
           that
           wasted
           time
           of
           their
           youth
           ,
           
           gain
           the
           knowledge
           of
           many
           good
           Authours
           which
           they
           could
           not
           have
           time
           to
           read
           ,
           and
           which
           by
           their
           dulness
           in
           learning
           the
           Rules
           of
           Grammar
           ,
           they
           are
           so
           tired
           with
           the
           difficulty
           thereof
           ,
           that
           they
           conceive
           an
           impossibility
           ever
           to
           attain
           it
           ,
           and
           so
           quit
           it
           ,
           though
           they
           prove
           men
           of
           excellent
           Understanding
           when
           they
           come
           to
           ripenesse
           of
           age
           .
           And
           the
           Romans
           as
           ordinarily
           both
           men
           ,
           women
           ,
           and
           children
           assoon
           learn'd
           and
           speak
           Latine
           ,
           as
           English
           ,
           French
           ,
           Dutch
           ,
           Welsh
           ,
           and
           Irish
           ,
           and
           all
           other
           Nations
           do
           their
           Native
           Tongues
           .
           I
           have
           likewise
           found
           by
           practice
           the
           same
           effect
           ,
           but
           have
           been
           beaten
           out
           of
           it
           by
           the
           arrogant
           ,
           ignorant
           ,
           and
           obstinate
           contradiction
           of
           too
           many
           others
           ;
           as
           I
           was
           likewise
           hindred
           by
           that
           I
           was
           not
           able
           to
           follow
           it
           my self
           ,
           as
           I
           should
           have
           done
           ,
           neither
           am
           I
           so
           foolish
           as
           to
           reject
           Grammar
           ,
           but
           would
           onely
           have
           it
           taught
           (
           according
           to
           the
           noblenesse
           thereof
           ,
           as
           one
           of
           the
           seven
           Liberall
           Sciences
           )
           to
           persons
           ,
           who
           by
           ripeness
           of
           Understanding
           are
           able
           to
           comprehend
           the
           Reasons
           thereof
           ,
           and
           have
           known
           some
           apter
           to
           learn
           in
           their
           youth
           the
           Rules
           of
           Logick
           and
           Rhetorick
           ,
           then
           those
           of
           Grammar
           (
           though
           they
           greedily
           desired
           it
           )
           which
           course
           if
           it
           were
           taken
           ,
           I
           think
           would
           make
           many
           of
           our
           English
           Gentry
           prove
           Scholars
           ,
           which
           by
           the
           ordinaryway
           could
           never
           learn
           it
           .
           And
           the
           help
           prescribed
           by
           the
           Gramar
           Rules
           ,
           how
           to
           put
           the
           Nominative
           Case
           before
           the
           Verb
           ,
           the
           Accusative
           after
           ,
           and
           to
           joyn
           the
           Substantive
           with
           the
           Adjective
           ;
           and
           the
           ordering
           of
           every
           word
           ,
           according
           to
           our
           English
           fashion
           ,
           may
           be
           far
           more
           easily
           directed
           by
           placing
           figures
           of
           Number
           to
           expresse
           their
           order
           ,
           and
           by
           this
           means
           scarce
           any
           who
           go
           to
           School
           ,
           shall
           ever
           misse
           the
           writing
           of
           a
           good
           and
           swift
           hand
           ,
           and
           attain
           ten
           times
           more
           knowledge
           by
           reading
           so
           many
           wise
           Authours
           as
           have
           left
           their
           writings
           for
           the
           instruction
           of
           posterity
           ,
           by
           their
           diligent
           observation
           of
           the
           meanes
           and
           fruits
           which
           shew
           men
           to
           follow
           good
           ,
           and
           avoid
           ill
           Actions
           .
           And
           I
           hold
           it
           likewise
           very
           necessary
           for
           every
           Teacher
           to
           be
           as
           diligent
           in
           observing
           the
           exceeding
           different
           nature
           of
           all
           their
           Scholars
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           dispositions
           of
           their
           persons
           and
           age
           ,
           rather
           then
           according
           to
           their
           common
           Rules
           ;
           for
           some
           can
           learn
           the
           same
           thing
           better
           at
           seven
           then
           others
           at
           fourteen
           ;
           and
           yet
           those
           at
           the
           fourteen
           years
           end
           will
           many
           times
           overtake
           and
           out-go
           the
           same
           persons
           ,
           who
           so
           much
           out-went
           them
           before
           .
           And
           by
           this
           way
           their
           time
           cannot
           be
           lost
           ,
           for
           I
           take
           Learning
           to
           be
           ordained
           to
           teach
           knowledge
           ,
           that
           knowledge
           by
           practice
           may
           inable
           men
           
           by
           noble
           Actions
           to
           give
           glory
           to
           God
           ,
           and
           to
           do
           as
           much
           good
           as
           they
           can
           ,
           during
           the
           course
           of
           their
           whole
           lives
           .
        
         
           
             Pharisaeos
             
               4
            
             Christus
             
               
            
             Pastores
             
               5
            
             malos
             ,
             
               6
            
             se
             
               7
            
             verò
             
               6
            
             multis
             
               3
            
             argumentis
             
               3
            
             bonum
             
               8
            
             comprobat
             
               2
            
             Pastorem
             .
             
               8
            
             Dissidium
             
               2
            
             propterea
             
               1
            
             oritur
             .
             
               3
            
             Lapides
             
               4
            
             sollentium
             .
             
               3
            
             &
             
               5
            
             eum
             
               8
            
             prehendere
             
               7
            
             cupientium
             
               6
            
             manus
             
               1
            
             evadit
             .
             
               2
            
          
        
      
       
         
           The
           True
           and
           Ready
           Way
           to
           learn
           the
           Latine
           Tongue
           ,
           Practised
           upon
           the
           French
           Lord
           of
           
             Montaigne
             ,
          
           and
           Recorded
           in
           his
           
             Essayes
             ,
             Lib.
             1.
             Cap.
             25.
             
             Pag.
          
           84.
           
        
         
           THe
           Athenians
           (
           as
           
             Plato
          
           averreth
           )
           have
           for
           their
           part
           great
           care
           to
           be
           fluent
           and
           eloquent
           in
           their
           speech
           ;
           The
           Lacedemonians
           endevour
           to
           be
           short
           and
           compendious
           ;
           And
           those
           of
           
             Creet
          
           labour
           more
           to
           be
           plentifull
           in
           conceits
           ,
           then
           in
           language
           .
           And
           these
           are
           the
           best
           .
           
             Zeno
          
           was
           wont
           to
           say
           ,
           
             That
             he
             had
             two
             sorts
             of
             disciples
             ;
             the
             one
             he
             called
          
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           
             curious
             to
             learne
             things
             ,
          
           and
           those
           weare
           his
           darlings
           ,
           the
           other
           he
           termed
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           who
           respected
           nothing
           more
           then
           the
           language
           .
           Yet
           can
           no
           man
           say
           ,
           but
           that
           to
           speak
           well
           ,
           is
           most
           gratious
           and
           commendable
           ,
           but
           not
           so
           excellent
           as
           some
           make
           it
           :
           and
           I
           am
           grieved
           to
           see
           how
           we
           imploy
           most
           part
           of
           our
           time
           about
           that
           onely
           .
           I
           would
           first
           know
           mine
           owne
           tongue
           perfectly
           ,
           then
           my
           neighbours
           with
           whom
           I
           have
           most
           commerce
           .
           I
           must
           needs
           acknowledge
           ,
           that
           the
           Greeke
           and
           Latine
           tongues
           ,
           are
           great
           ornaments
           in
           a
           Gentleman
           ,
           but
           they
           are
           purchased
           at
           over-high
           a
           rate
           .
           Vse
           it
           who
           list
           ,
           I
           will
           tell
           you
           how
           they
           may
           be
           gotten
           better
           cheap
           ,
           and
           much
           sooner
           then
           is
           ordinarily
           vsed
           ,
           which
           was
           tried
           in
           my selfe
           .
           My
           late
           Father
           ,
           having
           by
           all
           the
           meanes
           and
           industrie
           ,
           that
           is
           possible
           for
           man
           ,
           sought
           amongst
           the
           wisest
           ,
           and
           men
           of
           best
           vnderstanding
           ,
           to
           find
           a
           most
           exquisite
           and
           readie
           way
           of
           teaching
           ,
           being
           advised
           of
           the
           inconvenien
           cies
           then
           in
           use
           ;
           was
           given
           to
           understand
           ,
           that
           the
           lingring
           while
           ,
           and
           best
           part
           of
           our
           youth
           ,
           that
           we
           imploy
           in
           learning
           the
           tongues
           ,
           which
           cost
           
           them
           nothing
           ,
           is
           the
           onely
           cause
           we
           can
           never
           attain
           to
           that
           absolute
           perfection
           of
           skill
           and
           knowledg
           of
           the
           Greeks
           &
           Romanes
           .
           I
           do
           not
           believe
           that
           to
           be
           the
           onely
           cause
           .
           But
           so
           it
           is
           ,
           the
           expedient
           my
           Father
           found
           out
           ,
           was
           this
           ;
           that
           being
           yet
           at
           nurce
           ,
           &
           before
           the
           first
           loosing
           of
           my
           tongue
           ,
           I
           was
           delivered
           to
           a
           Germaine
           (
           who
           died
           since
           ,
           a
           most
           excellent
           Phisitian
           in
           
             France
             )
          
           he
           being
           then
           altogether
           ignorant
           of
           the
           French
           tongue
           ,
           but
           exquisitely
           readie
           and
           skilfull
           in
           the
           Latine
           .
           This
           man
           ,
           whom
           my
           Father
           had
           sent
           for
           of
           purpose
           ,
           and
           to
           whome
           he
           gave
           very
           great
           entertainment
           ,
           had
           me
           continually
           in
           his
           armes
           ,
           and
           was
           mine
           onely
           overseer
           .
           There
           were
           also
           joined
           unto
           him
           two
           of
           his
           countrimen
           ,
           but
           not
           so
           learned
           ;
           whose
           charge
           was
           to
           attend
           ,
           and
           now
           and
           then
           to
           play
           with
           me
           ;
           and
           all
           these
           together
           did
           never
           entertain
           me
           with
           other
           then
           the
           Latine
           tongue
           .
           As
           for
           others
           of
           his
           houshold
           ,
           it
           was
           aninviolable
           rule
           ,
           that
           neither
           himselfe
           ,
           nor
           my
           mother
           ,
           nor
           man
           ,
           not
           maid
           servant
           ,
           were
           suffered
           to
           speake
           one
           word
           in
           my
           companie
           ,
           except
           such
           Latine
           words
           ,
           as
           every
           one
           had
           learned
           to
           chat
           and
           pratle
           with
           me
           ,
           It
           were
           strange
           to
           tell
           how
           every
           one
           in
           the
           house
           profited
           therein
           .
           My
           Father
           and
           my
           Mother
           learned
           so
           much
           Latine
           ,
           that
           for
           a
           neede
           they
           could
           understand
           it
           ,
           when
           they
           heard
           it
           spoken
           ,
           even
           so
           did
           all
           the
           houshold
           servants
           ,
           namely
           such
           as
           were
           neerest
           and
           most
           about
           me
           .
           To
           be
           short
           ,
           we
           were
           all
           so
           Latinized
           ,
           that
           the
           townes
           round
           about
           us
           had
           their
           share
           of
           it
           ;
           insomuch
           as
           even
           at
           this
           day
           ,
           many
           Latine
           names
           both
           of
           workmen
           and
           of
           their
           tooles
           ,
           are
           yet
           in
           use
           among
           them
           .
           And
           as
           for
           my selfe
           ,
           I
           was
           about
           six
           years
           old
           ,
           &
           could
           understand
           no
           more
           French
           or
           Perigordine
           ,
           then
           Arabike
           ,
           and
           that
           with
           out
           art
           ,
           without
           books
           ,
           rules
           or
           grammer
           ,
           without
           whipping
           or
           whining
           .
           I
           had
           gotten
           as
           pure
           a
           Latine
           tongue
           as
           my
           Master
           could
           speake
           ;
           the
           rather
           because
           I
           could
           neither
           mingle
           or
           confound
           the
           same
           with
           other
           tongues
           .
           If
           for
           an
           Essay
           they
           would
           give
           me
           a
           Theame
           ,
           whereas
           the
           fashion
           in
           Colledges
           is
           ,
           to
           give
           it
           in
           French
           ,
           I
           had
           it
           in
           bad
           Latine
           ,
           to
           reduce
           the
           same
           into
           good
           .
           And
           
             Nicholas
             Grucchi
             ,
          
           who
           hath
           written
           ,
           
             De
             comitiis
             Romanorum
             ;
             William
             Guerenti
             ,
          
           who
           hath
           commented
           
             Aristotle
             :
             George
             Buchanan
             ,
          
           that
           famous
           Scottish
           Poet
           ,
           and
           
             Marke-Antonie
             Muret
             ,
          
           whom
           (
           while
           he
           lived
           )
           both
           
             France
          
           and
           
             Italie
          
           to
           this
           day
           ,
           acknowledge
           to
           have
           been
           the
           best
           Oratour
           :
           (
           all
           which
           have
           been
           my
           familiar
           tutors
           )
           have
           often
           told
           me
           ,
           that
           in
           mine
           infancy
           I
           had
           the
           Latine
           tongue
           so
           ready
           and
           so
           perfect
           ,
           that
           themselves
           feared
           to
           take
           me
           in
           hand
           .
           And
           
             Buchanan
             ,
          
           whom
           afterward
           I
           saw
           attending
           on
           the
           Marshall
           of
           
             Brissacke
             ,
          
           told
           me
           ,
           he
           was
           about
           to
           write
           a
           Treatise
           of
           
           the
           Institution
           of
           Children
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           took
           the
           modell
           and
           pattern
           from
           mine
           :
           for
           at
           that
           time
           he
           had
           the
           charge
           and
           bringing
           up
           of
           the
           young
           Earl
           of
           
             Brissack
             ,
          
           whom
           since
           we
           have
           seen
           prove
           so
           worthy
           and
           so
           valiant
           a
           Captain
           .
           As
           for
           the
           Greek
           ,
           wherein
           I
           have
           but
           small
           understanding
           ,
           my
           Father
           purposed
           to
           make
           me
           learn
           it
           by
           art
           ;
           But
           by
           new
           and
           unaccustomed
           meanes
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           by
           way
           of
           recreation
           and
           exercise
           .
           We
           did
           tosse
           our
           declinations
           and
           conjugations
           to
           and
           fro
           ,
           as
           they
           do
           ,
           who
           by
           way
           of
           a
           certain
           game
           at
           Tables
           learn
           both
           
             Arithmetick
          
           and
           
             Geometry
             .
          
           For
           amongst
           other
           things
           he
           had
           especially
           been
           perswaded
           to
           make
           me
           tast
           and
           apprehend
           the
           fruits
           of
           Duty
           and
           Science
           by
           an
           unforced
           kinde
           of
           will
           ,
           and
           of
           mine
           own
           choice
           ;
           and
           without
           any
           compulsion
           or
           rigour
           to
           bring
           me
           up
           in
           all
           mildenesse
           and
           liberty
           ;
           yea
           ,
           with
           such
           kinde
           of
           superstition
           ,
           that
           ,
           whereas
           some
           are
           of
           opinion
           ,
           that
           suddenly
           to
           awaken
           young
           children
           ,
           and
           as
           it
           were
           by
           violence
           to
           startle
           and
           fright
           them
           out
           of
           their
           dead
           sleep
           in
           a
           morning
           ,
           (
           wherein
           they
           are
           more
           heavy
           and
           deeper
           plunged
           then
           we
           )
           doth
           greatly
           trouble
           and
           distemper
           their
           braines
           ,
           he
           would
           every
           morning
           cause
           me
           to
           be
           awakened
           by
           the
           sound
           of
           some
           Instrument
           ;
           and
           I
           was
           never
           without
           a
           servant
           who
           to
           that
           purpose
           attended
           upon
           me
           .
           This
           example
           may
           serve
           to
           judge
           of
           the
           rest
           ;
           as
           also
           to
           commend
           the
           judgement
           and
           tender
           affection
           of
           so
           careful
           and
           loving
           a
           father
           ;
           who
           is
           not
           to
           be
           blamed
           ,
           though
           he
           reaped
           not
           the
           fruits
           answerable
           to
           his
           exquisite
           toil
           ,
           and
           painful
           manuring
           .
           Two
           things
           hindered
           the
           same
           ;
           first
           ,
           the
           barrenesse
           and
           unfit
           soil
           :
           for
           howbeit
           I
           were
           of
           a
           sound
           and
           strong
           constitution
           ,
           and
           of
           a
           tractable
           and
           yielding
           condition
           ,
           yet
           was
           I
           so
           heavy
           ,
           so
           sluggish
           ,
           and
           so
           dull
           ,
           that
           I
           could
           not
           be
           rouzed
           (
           yea
           were
           it
           to
           go
           to
           play
           )
           from
           out
           mine
           idle
           drowzinesse
           .
           What
           I
           saw
           ,
           I
           saw
           it
           perfectly
           ;
           and
           under
           this
           heavy
           ,
           and
           as
           it
           were
           ,
           Lethe-complexion
           did
           I
           breed
           hardie
           imaginations
           ,
           and
           opinions
           far
           above
           my
           years
           :
           My
           spirit
           was
           very
           slow
           ,
           and
           would
           go
           no
           further
           then
           it
           was
           led
           by
           others
           ;
           my
           apprehension
           blockish
           ,
           my
           invention
           poor
           ;
           and
           besides
           ,
           I
           had
           a
           marvellous
           defect
           in
           my
           weak
           memory
           :
           it
           is
           therefore
           no
           wonder
           ,
           if
           my
           father
           could
           never
           bring
           me
           to
           any
           perfection
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           as
           those
           that
           in
           some
           dangerous
           sicknesse
           moved
           with
           a
           kinde
           of
           hopefull
           and
           greedy
           desire
           of
           perfect
           health
           again
           ,
           give
           ear
           to
           every
           Leache
           or
           Empirick
           ,
           and
           follow
           all
           counsels
           ,
           the
           good
           man
           being
           exceedingly
           fearfull
           to
           commit
           any
           oversight
           in
           a
           matter
           he
           took
           so
           to
           heart
           ,
           suffered
           himself
           at
           last
           to
           be
           led
           away
           by
           the
           
           common
           opinion
           ,
           which
           like
           unto
           the
           Cranes
           followeth
           ever
           those
           that
           go
           before
           ,
           and
           yielded
           to
           custome
           :
           Having
           those
           no
           longer
           about
           him
           that
           had
           given
           him
           his
           first
           directions
           ,
           and
           which
           they
           had
           brought
           out
           of
           
             Italie
             .
          
           Being
           but
           six
           years
           old
           ,
           I
           was
           sent
           to
           the
           Colledge
           of
           
             Guienne
          
           then
           most
           flourishing
           and
           reputed
           the
           best
           in
           
             France
             ,
          
           where
           it
           is
           impossible
           to
           adde
           any
           thing
           to
           the
           great
           care
           he
           had
           ,
           both
           to
           chuse
           the
           best
           and
           most
           sufficient
           Masters
           that
           could
           be
           found
           to
           read
           unto
           me
           ,
           as
           also
           for
           all
           other
           circumstances
           pertaining
           to
           my
           education
           ,
           wherein
           contrary
           to
           usuall
           customes
           of
           Colledges
           ,
           he
           observed
           many
           particular
           rules
           .
           But
           so
           it
           is
           ,
           it
           was
           ever
           a
           Colledge
           .
           My
           Latine
           Tongue
           was
           forthwith
           corrupted
           ,
           whereof
           by
           reason
           of
           discontinuance
           ,
           I
           afterward
           lost
           all
           manner
           of
           use
           :
           which
           new
           kinde
           of
           institution
           stood
           me
           in
           no
           other
           stead
           ,
           but
           that
           at
           my
           first
           admittance
           ,
           it
           made
           me
           to
           over-skip
           some
           of
           the
           lower
           formes
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           placed
           in
           the
           highest
           .
           For
           at
           thirteen
           years
           of
           age
           ,
           that
           I
           left
           the
           Colledge
           ,
           I
           had
           read
           over
           the
           whole
           course
           of
           Philosophy
           (
           as
           they
           call
           it
           )
           but
           with
           so
           small
           profit
           ,
           that
           I
           can
           now
           make
           no
           account
           of
           it
           .
           The
           first
           taste
           or
           feeling
           I
           had
           of
           Books
           was
           of
           the
           pleasure
           I
           took
           in
           reading
           the
           fables
           of
           
             Ovids
          
           Metamorphosies
           ;
           for
           being
           but
           seven
           or
           eight
           years
           old
           ,
           I
           would
           steal
           and
           sequester
           my self
           from
           all
           other
           delights
           ,
           onely
           to
           read
           them
           :
           Forsomuch
           as
           the
           tongue
           wherein
           they
           were
           written
           was
           to
           me
           naturall
           ;
           and
           it
           was
           the
           easiest
           book
           I
           knew
           ,
           and
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           matter
           therein
           contained
           ,
           most
           agreeing
           with
           my
           yong
           age
           .
           For
           of
           King
           
             Arthur
             ,
          
           of
           
             Lancelot
             du
             Luke
             ,
          
           of
           
             Amadis
             ,
          
           of
           
             Huon
             ,
          
           of
           
             Burdeaux
             ,
          
           and
           such
           idle
           time-consuming
           ,
           and
           wit-besotting
           trash
           of
           Books
           ,
           wherein
           youth
           doth
           commonly
           ammuse
           it self
           ,
           I
           was
           not
           so
           much
           as
           acquainted
           with
           their
           names
           ,
           and
           to
           this
           day
           know
           not
           their
           bodies
           ,
           nor
           what
           they
           contain
           :
           So
           exact
           was
           my
           Discipline
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           FINIS
           .