Volume Ix Part 5 (2/2)

ACT II., SCENE I.

_A School_.

_Enter_ AMINADAB, _with a rod in his hand, and_ BOYS _with their books_.

AMIN. Come, boys, come, boys, rehea.r.s.e your parts, And then, _ad prandium; jam, jam, incipe_!

1ST BOY. Forsooth, my lesson's torn out of my book.

AMIN. _Quae caceris chartis deseruisse decet_.

Torn from your book! I'll tear it from your breech.

How say you, Mistress Virga, will you suffer _Hic puer bonae[11] indolis_ to tear His lessons, leaves, and lectures from his book?

1ST BOY. Truly, forsooth, I laid it in my seat, While Robin Glade and I went into _campis_; And when I came again, my book was torn.

AMIN. _O mus_, a mouse; was ever heard the like?

1ST BOY. _O domus_, a house; master, I could not mend it.

2D BOY. _O pediculus_, a louse; I knew not how it came.

AMIN. All toward boys, good scholars of their times; The least of these is past his accidence, Some at _qui mihi_; here's not a boy But he can construe all the grammar rules.

_Sed ubi sunt sodales_? not yet come?

Those _tarde venientes_ shall be whipp'd.

_Ubi est_ Pipkin? where's that lazy knave?

He plays the truant every Sat.u.r.day; But Mistress Virga, Lady Willow-by,[12]

Shall teach him that _diluculo surgere Est saluberrimum_: here comes the knave.

_Enter_ PIPKIN.

1ST BOY. _Tarde, tarde, tarde_.

2D. BOY. _Tarde, tarde, tarde_.

AMIN. _Huc ades_, Pipkin--reach a better rod-- _Cur tam tarde venis_? speak, where have you been?

Is this a time of day to come to school?

_Ubi fuisti_? speak, where hast thou been?

PIP. _Magister, quomodo vales_?

AMIN. Is that _responsio_ fitting my demand?

PIP. _Etiam certe_, you ask me where I have been, and I say _quomodo vales_, as much as to say, come out of the alehouse.

AMIN. Untruss, untruss! nay, help him, help him!

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