Part 5 (2/2)
Se that I lacke nat by my beddes syde a chayer of easement: with a vessel vnder: and an vrinall bye
Women couette to sytte on lowe or pote stolys: men upon twyse so hye
It is couenyent that a man haue one seueral place in his house to hymselfe fro cobrance of wome
Women muste haue one place to themselfe to tyffil themselfe and kepe theyr apparell
They whyte theyr face, necke and pappis with cerusse: and theyr lyppis and ruddis with purpurisse
Tue home theyr praye
Lytel popies, that serueth for ladies, were sutyme bellis: sutyme colers ful of prickkis for theyr defece
I haue layde ynnys, pottis, and other: for to take fisshe
Sohty great thyng / and so hye that vneth a man may discerne the wether cocke
It is an olde duty / and an auncyent custume / that the Mayre of London with his bretherne shall offer at Poules certayne dayes in the yere
In London be lij parysshe chyrches
Two or iij neses be holsome: one is a shrowed toke”
These selected extracts will convey soaria_ of Horman, of which a second edition ca that it did not prove more popular But it had to enter into competition with books of a sie and Whittinton, who had their established connection to assist the sale of their publications
The concluding item in this list of educational perforical relic, and a factor in the illustration of the iners of all periods and almost all countries I allude to an edition of the _Declensions_ of the learned Parisian printer Ascensius with an English gloss The tract was evidently printed abroad; and I araph on Punctuation, as it may afford an idea of the nature of the publication and of the English of that day as written by a foreigner It will be observed that the author seems to confound the co_
”Therbe fiueht / and esy to vnderstod both to the reder & the herer & they be these: virgil / coil is a scleder stryke: lenynge forwarde thiswyse / be tokynynge a lytyl / short rest without any perfetnes yet of sentens: as betwene the fiue poyntis a fore rehersid A coer rest: and the setens yet ether is vnperfet: or els if it be perfet: ther cu to it: the which more comynly can not be perfect by itself without at the lest suothe a fore A parenthesis is with tway crokyd virgils: as an olde mone / & a neu bely to bely: the whiche be set theron afore the begynyng / and thetother after the latyr ende of a clause: co within an other clause: thatbetwene: ey and therfore it is sowndyde comynly a note lower: than the vtter clause yf the setens cannot be perfet without the ynner clause: then stede of the first crokyde virgil a streght virgil wol do very wel: and stede of the latyr must nedis be a come A playne point is on tittil thiswyse & it cue rest An iterrogatif is with tway titils: the vppir rysyng this wyse? & it cumith after the ende of a whole reason: wheryn ther is su as it were for an answare: risyth vpwarde we haue lisshe: by cause they be as profitable / and necessary to be kepte in euery e / as i latin -- Sethyn we (as olde to God: euery precher [? techer] wolde do) haue kepte owre rulis bothe in owre englisshe / and latyn: what nede we / sethyn on be sufficient ynogh: to put any other exeue conjecture as to the authorshi+p of the _Ascensian Declensions_ Many Englishht have edited such a book The orthography and punctuation are alike peculiar, and suspiciously redolent, it e; but one of our country resided abroad, or who had even been educated out of England, uilty of such slips as we find here A Thomas Robertson of York, of whom I shall have more presently to say, was a few years later in communication with the printers and publishers of Switzerland, and becaralish, to introduce certain provincialisht have executed this commission, as he did the other, for Bebelius of Basle
Two years subsequently to the appearance of his _Vulgaria_, Horman involved himself in a literary controversy with Whittinton in consequence of an attack which he had rammatical productions in a printed Epistle to Lily; it was the beginning of athe current educational literature, and Horman hi, as we are able to judge from the way in which he acquitted himself of his own contribution to this class of work
A curious and very interesting account of the dispute between Lily and Horraiven by Maitland in his Notices of the Lambeth Palace Library I elsewhere refer to the warm altercation between Sir John Cheke and Bishop Gardiner on the pronunciation of Greek Both these matters have to be added to a new edition of Disraeli's _Quarrels of Authors_
The Salernitan gentleether by the ears in his _Grammar War_, acted, no doubt, more discreetly, since he reserved to himself the power to terminate the fray which he had co, it is the case that the hly valuable Manuals of Instruction during the Middle Ages were superseded and effaced by others following in their track and profiting by their experience The bulk of these more ancient treatises, such as I have described, still ree text-books, which are yet sometimes left unprinted froraphy the teaching and learning public accorded a preference to those scholars who constructed their system on ible and more efficient