School-Lawes. OR, QUI MIHI IN ENGLISH.  
By J. M.  Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he i● old, he will not depart from it, Prov. 22.6. 
LONDON, Printed MDCL.   

QUI MIHI IN English.  
WHO so my scholar dost desire to be,  
Observe these Laws, and I do welcome thee.  
Thou shalt get up betimes, soft sleep forsake,  
Humble thyself, and daily prayer make.  
Thy hands must washed be, also thy face,  
Thy garments trim, and head combed in first place.  
Thou must not truant, when our School doth call;  
Absence in health, knows no excuse at all.  
Greet me thy Master, as thou passest by,  
And all thy fellow-students orderly.  
Sit where I bid thee, and not thence depart,  
Till I remove thee for thy just desert:  
For as thou learnest, so must be thy place,  
Thy good desert shall never want due grace.  
Pen, ink, and paper, books of each degree,  
See these thy weapons in due posture be.  
What I thee dictate, thou shalt fairly writ.  
Thou shalt not blur, nor blot that I indite.  
To papers loose and torn do not commit  
Thy exercises, which for books are fit.  
con o'er thy lesson once and once again.  
Ask when thou doubt'st now these, now other men.  
Who doubts, and asketh oft, pleaseth me best,  
The most conceited sure conceiveth least.  
Endeavour now my child, mark what I say,  
So shall it be thine own another day.  
Attend, I say, for what will 't me avail,  
To teach thee oft, if thou to learn shalt fail?  
Thou must not count that hard, in time shall be,  
As now thy pains, so thy great dignity.  
The earth yields not increase of flower or grain,  
unless manured well by painful swain:  
So without exercise thy time is lost,  
Thy wit decay, and all thy hopes are crosst.  
Now lest thy twattling should my pat'ence wrong,  
I give thee rules and precepts for thy tongue.  
dost get thy less'n, let not thy voice be stout.  
dost it rehearse to me, then speak thou out:  
And when thou sayst, be sure th' hast conned it well  
'tis very good without book to excel:  
Let none thee prompt, for that comic fash'on,  
Hath harmed much the learned nation.  
If ought I ask thee, answer in such sort,  
I may approve it well, and praise thee for't.  
Thy tongue must not be glibb, nor yet too flow,  
●ledg● mean most vert'ous is, as all do know:  
And when thou speakest, see thou speakest properly.  
Both uncouth words and phrase shun warily.  
Moreover if thy fellowes ought thee ask,  
Instruct them right, and help me in my task.  
Who so does others teach, unlearned though he,  
●ledg●n time not long shall better learned be.  
Beware of smatt'rers, follow not their race,  
The roman language who do much disgrace:  
Of whom there's none so foppish or so ball'd,  
That of the simplo is not Master called.  
If thou the grammar rules wouldst rightly know,  
And in the same most elegantly flow;  
Addict thyself to those both grave and old,  
Whom gowned men do classic authors hold.  
Now take thy Virgil, Terence now desire;  
Bove all be sure, thy tully thee inspire.  
These who reject, do nothing else but dream,  
And in much darkness strive against the stream.  
There are some boys, do walk in no good way,  
But triftle out their time both night and day.  
There are, that joy to smite with foot and hand,  
And any way to vex in fear not stand.  
One brags his birth, and boasts his progeny,  
And twitteth those are not of high degree:  
But thou, my child, take heed thou dost not so,  
Lest thou thereby dost purchase mickle wo.  
Thou shalt not chop and change, nor buy, nor sell,  
To gain by others loss is not so well.  
The root of evil( 'tis money so I deem,)  
Let be; money a child doth ill beseem.  
Hooting, wrangling, scoffs, lies, and ribaldry,  
Let me not hear, nor any fighting see.  
In no wise utter that is vild or wrong,  
For weal and wo dependeth on the tongue.  
Tremble to curse, or swear, Oh, do not swear:  
Why shouldst thou him blaspheme, thou oughtest r●vere?  
Lastly keep safe thy books, and every thing,  
And as thou goest and comest, them with thee bring  
Shun all occasion, that may work thee shane,  
chiefly for which I must thee also blame.  
FINIS.