Part 4 (2/2)

”I warne the fro hens forthe medle not with my bokes Thou blurrest and blottest them, as thou were a bletchy sowter”

Such bits as these were decidedly worth extracting, yet Dibdin, with the very copy of the book from which they are derived before him, let them pass In this voluistic terms of Sir Tho portion to an English reader will be the

”_To arraye or_ _To backbyte_ The goute

_to dyght_ Detraho Arthesis Orno Detracto Arthtica passio Vestio Obtrecto Morbus articularis Ara Como &c &c &c

Colo

_An alyen or_ _To playe the_ _To be wode_ _outlandysshe_ _brothell_ Seuio Alienagena Scortari Furio Peregrinus Prostitui Insanio Aduena Fornicari Excandeseor Alienus Merere Bacchor Exterus Struprari _Wodnesse or_ Externus Adulterari _madnesse_ Barbarus Cohire Insania Extraneus Concumbere Seviciae &c &c Furor”

The copious storehouse of equivalent phrases in Latin coland at this period, as there is no corresponding facility offered for persons desirous of enlarging their English vocabulary The influence of the scholars of France, Italy, Holland, and Gerround, and retarded the study of English by Englishmen; but the uprise of a taste for the French and Italian probably gave the first serious blow to the supreues, as they are called, and it becaentlees in which Moliere and Tasso wrote as the hybrid dialect in which erudite foreigners had been used to correspond and coes of several of his pieces _laureatus_ and _protovates Angliae_ In one place he speaks of being ”priestans,” and elsewhere he professes to be _raood deal on the real nature and iard to the laurel crown or wreath, itthat Wood furnishes the annexed explanation of the point:--

”In the beginning of the year 1513, he supplicated the venerable congregation of regents under the naton, a secular chaplain and a scholar of the art of rhetoric: that, whereas he had spent fourteen years in the study of the said art, and twelve years in the inforht be laureated This supplication being granted, he was, after he had composed an hundred verses, which were stuck up in public places, especially on the door or doors of St Mary's Church [Oxford], very solemnly crowned, or his temples adorned with a wreath of laurel, that is, decorated in the arts of grarapher of Colet is undoubtedly correct in supposing that the ancient poet-laureatshi+p was nothing ree, and that in this sense, and in no other, Skelton bore that designation, as well as Bernardus Andreas, as tutor to Prince Arthur, elder brother of Henry VIII

It also appears from the account of the decoration of Whittinton that he had commenced his qualification for a schoolmaster as far back as 1499, which is reconcilable with the date assigned to his birth (1480)

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Educational tracts produced by other writers--_Parvula_--Holt's _Milk for Children_--Horular curiosity and value--The author's literary quarrel with Whittinton--The conten teachers--Species of the literature current at Oxford in the beginning of the sixteenth century--The printed works of Johannes de Garlandia

I Of independent tracts intended for the use of our early schools, there were several either anonynise as writers of ory is placeable the small piece published three or four times by Wynkyn de Worde about 1509, under the title of _Parvula_ or _Longe Parvula_ It is a series of rules for translation and other exercises in the form of question and answer, thus:--

”Q What shall thou do whan thou hast an englysshe to lysshe ones, twyes, or thryes, and loke out my pryncypal, & aske ? questyon, who or what”

A second publication is the _Milk for Children_ of John Holt, of Magdalen College, Oxford, who had the honour of nu his pupils Sir Tho points about the little book to us nowadays is that it is accorae by More The latter has the air of having been sent to Holt, and inserted by hi which occurs before it, where the future Chancellor is terularity of this volu his precepts on those who read his pages or attended his acade the cases and declensions on woodcuts in the shape of outstretched hands

Besides his _Milk for Children_ and the _Parvulorum Institutio_, to the latter of which I have already referred, Holt appears to me the most likely person to have coiana Collectione_, a srammatical ue at Magdalen School; and this ht points where he says that Holt put forth an Accidence and Grarapher of Dean Colet errs in placing Stanbridge after Holt in chronological sequence

Another of thevery nearly to the mediaeval _Nominale_, has no other title than _Os, Facies, mentum_, and is a Latin poem descriptive of the huloss It begins thus:--

a e Os facies ua a berde a browe abrye a forhede teples a lype Barba supercilium ciliu frons tepora labru roffe of the , of course, on the one hand, recondite, or, on the other, very edifying in this; but it is a sample of the method pursued in these little epheo

II The colish acquired increased proular text-books coe and Whittinton, there is quite a sned for educational purposes, and framed on a similar model Doubtless these were inwith the productions of the masters themselves, or the latter may have had a hand, very possibly, in those which we have to treat as anonymous

Between the co the reigns of the first and second Tudors, there were several of these unclaimed and unidentified colica, Tractatus de octo orationis partibus_, and _Brief Rules of the Regilish and Latin_, 1537

The _Introductoriuuae Latinae_ by W H may perhaps be ascribed to William Horman, of e shall have ory of works which had no particular width or duration of currency the _Gradus Coulae Inforain, of which all trace has at present disappeared, were eular series, constantly kept in print, of Whittinton and Stanbridge, prior to the rise of the great public seminaries, many of which, as it will be my business to shew, took into use certain compilations supposed to be specially adapted to their requirements