Primula Veris: A Brighter Gem, AESOP's Cock never found, Teaching (ne'er taught yet) SPEECH's perfect ground. OR, The Third Part OF Calverleys' Notes: Which Notes (after Discovery of the wondrous Mistakes, needless Difficulties, and Prolixity of the Common Grammar) initiate a Method which may Be a Glory to the NATION, And an Encouragement to the Learning Youth of Europe: THAN All must learn this true Distinction's glance, Else Babes will jeer us for our Ignorance. LONDON, Printed by T. H. for the Author, in High- Holbourn, and sold by Mr. Butt, in Princes-Street, near Drury-Lane, 1681. The Third Part of Calverley's Notes, etc. THe Action of any thing, is a Verb, as To Love; a Verb (in Latin) endeth principally in re, as Amare, or in i, as Dignari: its other end are Nine, all Ten set down in that called the Infinitive Mood, but is (indeed) the Kingdom of the Verb, and the Ten end are its principalities, expressing the Action of the Noun so amply as she (in honour) can. There are four Families of Verbs, each known of w●at Family ●t is by the Vowel long or short before the ●a●d re or i, A●, The 1st. Family hath 〈◊〉, long-before re and i, as Amare, Dignari. The 2d. Family hath e, long before re and i, as Habere, Tueri. The 3d. Family hath e, short before re and i, as Legere, Gradi●… The 4th. Family hath i long before re and i, as Audire, Orini. There is no Infinitive Mood, for the Verb is a pious Queen, clearly free from all Moodish humours and person, for person is prince of Nouns, and therefore very nonsensically called a Pronoun; and the Noun hath the Indicative, Imperative, and potential Mood, and to force the Verb to Answer to the humour of any of his three persons singularly and plurally throughout all the Moods and Tenses, he brings Two Hundred and Sixty other end, thereby personating the Verb, and that by barbarous cutting, dismembering, murdering, and patching for Verbs of the First and Third Families are personated (in the first person present-tense singular Indicative) by cutting off the Verbs Belly and Feet, and setting o-instead thereof, as Amoare, Legoere. The same Person, Mood, and Tense, in Verbs of the 2d. and 4th. Families, are personated by cutting away the Verbs Feet, and setting o instead thereof, as Habeore, Audiore. Yea, and by cutting off both Head and Body, all save the Feet, and adding o after the reservation, as Ineo. The rest of the 260 personating terminations are all personally attending each its person through ou● the Moods and Tenses, and that so punctually as if those terminations and these distinctions had been made together at once, and not any labour added, but great certainty and delightful knowledge. 1. o. as. at. amus. atis. of't. 2. o. s. t. mus. tis. nt. 3. o. is. it. imus. itis. unt. 4. o. s. t. mus. tis. junt. And so forth as in the Tenses. Personating brings a Verb from her free Queen's Estate, to a Noun-Verb a Servant; yea, a mere Hermaphrodite. And yet Author's place the personating Cubs of the Nouns, Tyranny and murderous Usurpers in the Queen's Throne, so that all men have taken the Feet for the Head, and not so much as taken any notice of, the Verbs Royal bounty, which she (in her Kingdom and Regency) freely bestoweth, nor of the singular benefits exacted from her in her Captivity and suffering, showing ourselves as if we did not at all understand the true Grounds of Speech. Let us now set the benign Queen in her Throne to lead the dance, and make the encroaching Personaters retire to places meet, as Amoare avi atum. Habeore vi itum. Legoere; legi lectum. Audiore ivi itum. Yet the Verb is not without her triumph, for she almost as often as any Noun cometh after her, flings him forth of his Throne into what state or case she listeth, Viz. sometimes into a Genitive, as Miserere mei; or into a Dative, as Da mihi; or into an Accusative, as Dilige Virtutem; or into an Ablative, as Vtere Virtute. Yea, higher Triumph also, for the Verb hath the honour to be Mother of the most Noble and Graceful Nouns, as from the Principality u. by changing the u into io. as of Amatu, Amatio; of Doctu, Doctio; of Lectu, Lectio; of Auditu, Auditio: or by changing the u for or, as of Amatu, Amator: Doctu, Doctor; Lectu, Lector: Auditu, Auditor: and many by the addition of s, to the u, as Auditus, Visus, as you may see more at large in the 15th. Page of the Second Part. By this Method, any one Sentende is sufficient example for parsing all whatsoever: As if your Word be a thing, it is a Noun; if it signify the Action of any thing it is a Verb; if it be neither Noun nor Verb, than it is an Adjunct, the signification whereof shows what kind of Adjunct it is: do so by every Word in that or any other Sentence, & it makes thee (hitherto grievous) labour and doubts in parsing, a very sport. To pleasure yourself and Company, ask of what Gender are Common Nounds ending in l. Your Rule in Propria Generibus, is, in l. are Neuters: Ask again, How many common Nouns in en are Masculines; look in the Exception over against that Rule, and it shows One. The like question in any Rules in Propria Generibus, will pleasure you, and the bystanders, and instruct him whom you question; so easy and plain is every Rule and thing in this Method, that more thorough knowledge may be gained in Three Months, than in any former Grammar, in so many Years: For depressure, irksomeness, toil, dismay, Are here exchanged for most delightful play. Nunquam sera est ad meliora via. FINIS.