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A42982	The true and readie way to learne the Latine tongue attested by three excelently learned and approved authours of three nations, viz. Eilhardus Lubinus, a German, Mr. Richard Carew, of Anthony in Cornwall, the French Lord of Montaigne : presented to the unpartiall, both publick and private considerations fo those that seek the advancement of learning in those nations / by Samuel Hartlib ...	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing H1002; ESTC R19399	47,191	60

difficulty The other is that another plainer readier and shorter Way for the leading to the Latine Tongue may not onely be made but that we should also enquire explain and shew what that is or peradventure may be Now whether this way be found out by me Learned men will judge and Experience it self which I do wish will descry Surely if I should affirm that I have not been the hindermost amongst them who have sought or enquried for it I should not lie My endevours upon Plautus the Prince of the Latine Tongue will witnesse which I assayed now twenty years ago to translate into our own native Germane or Dutch language that it might answer word for word the Germane or High Dutch put under the Latine a in this Edition of the Testament And a Grammatical Book into which are heaped together all the words of all the Latine tongue being brought into their ranks and fitted to their precepts and rules And a Book which I have entituled A Key to the Greek Tongue and my Paraphrases of the three Satyrists wherein I have inserted the Poets words which very thing likewise I have endeavoured in the Paraphrase of the New Testament with certain other things which as yet lie hid at my house among my papers or Note-books In which surely if I have not found I have surely sought certain short Cuts or advantageous Courses for the overcoming of many and great difficulties For now a long time and for many years this thought hath come into my minde and busied and troubled me what should be the Reason that when all other Tongues even those which not onely have nothing common with our German Speech as the Spanish and Italian but those also in whose pronunciation we Germanes finde by experience the greatest hardship as be the Polonian and the French may in some reasonable sort be learned by many Germans in two or to be sure in three years space yea out of Spain Italy France Poloniae in Germany it self in the Schools even of private Masters Onely these Three Tongues Latine Greek and Hebrew in which the holy Scripture and Humane Learning Faculties Arts and Sciences are either extant in writing or are taught and learned by Interpreters are learned in so long a space of lifes time and with such miserable paines both to the Teacher and Learner that some there are who being spent and wearied out with the tediousnesse and impatience of so wretched a teaching do begin to hate and forsake the study of Learning others who persevere can hardly be brought thither before they be eighteen or even twenty years of age so as they can scantly at last with much ado sobbingly and stammeringly utter a few Latine words who the mean time scarce so much as slightly touch the Greek or Hebrew Tongues And which thing is to be the more admired and hath seemed to me no other then monstrous inasmuch as I am verily perswaded of this and whereof neither any that is well in his wits I think will ever make doubt that these three Tongues have nothing peculiar and proper over other Tongues whereby they cannot be learned as well as others by Use Custome and Exercise Yea which formerly Infants and Children learned the Romanes or Latines the Romane or Latine the Greeks the Greek the Hebrews the Hebrew to whom these Tongues were proper and naturall together with the milk of their Mother or Nurse from their Mothers Nurses Keepers that bare them about School-masters and such as liv'd in their houses by Use and Custome just as our Infants and Children do learn their Mother own-Countrey Germane Tongue Which three Tongues also others to whom they were not Countreyly-peculiar could long since learn by Custome and Use in two years certainly that we may allow them so much time as may be enough and too much in three years space For the Romanes or Latines learned the Greek Tongue at Athens and the Greeks the Latine at Rome and both these Greeks and Romanes the Hebrew Tongue among the Jews in Palestine as the Jews on the other part learned in Greece and Italy the Greek or Latine Tongue by Use and Custome which very thing whosoever shall consider with me more accurately he cannot doubtlesse chuse but grant that some Means and Way may be found out whereby these Three Tongues as formerly they could be learned by Use and Custome in a shorter space of time even as other Tongues are learned so they may yet be learned Now touching the vulgar Way of instructing Children in Schools though even I my self have sometime being a young Scholar at School undergone it and growen further into years have discharged it being appointed a School-master and Tutor for the teaching of the younger sort indeed not without both very great irksomnesse somnesse of life and losse of time to speak what I think yea as the matter is being indifferent what ever others are ready to think or speak to the contrary it seems to me to be such and so introduced into Schools just as if one out of hired pains and study had been commanded to devise some Mean or way whereby Masters and Scholars too might bring and be brought on to the knowledge of the Latine Tongue not without huge labours great weariness infinite toils and finally not without a very long interval and space of time Quae quoties repeto vel iniquâ mente revolve Concutior toties penitísque horresco medullis Which while I sean or griev'd to minde recall I shake with fear and do a trembling fall In the first place the precepts of Grammar are so many times in a manner increased so oft changed as often as a new Moderatour is put in authority for the School and who except he brings something that is new or at least alter the old he may seem perhaps the less learned to himself in his own judgement Certainly as oft as a youth goes away from one School to another so often is his old Grammar to be unlearned and a new one to be learned By which things the tender mindes of the younger sort are not onely hindered and troubled but also that Golden age is both worn out and tormented And I pray you what end and measure is there of these kinde of Rules or Precepts when as there are now every where found more Grammatical Books in Schools then there are Schools themselves well neer or upon the matter forasmuch as they are oftentimes changed in one School And when all is done what else is this Grammatical teaching but a stoppage and let to studies but a wastful spoiler of childish yea of youthful age but a hanging like torture of an ingenuous minde or disposition but lastly a driver away of the best wits out of Schools and whereon hitherto to the unvaluable and irrecoverable hurt and damage of mans whole life which is so short and so fleeting is bestowed all that space of child-hood stripling-age yea truly in many even of their youthful

be out-gone and left behinde by their equals When they have now well learned these Letters by these helps of Images and have begun to expresse Syllables in Letters joyned or put together on that manner as I have said now these aids of figments or imaginary devices being laid aside for one turn or two as yet in the manner formerly explained let there be a passing through all the varieties of Syllables that so they may learn to know the Letters placed on that wise alone and by themselves without such an Image and to expresse any one in it self and with others Now that all things which appertain to Reading may be more fully and abundantly learned there are yet further two or more greater Tables to be used wherein all the Syllables of two three four five or more Letters may be expressed not indeed as in the former Table in Letters severed or dis-joyned from one another and in three lines onely so disposed as they cannot but by the Masters guiding and shewing with a stick put thereon be brought into a Syllable but so as they may be seen expressed in letters joyned together one with another And in these Tables let the very whole variety of Syllables none at all excepted be set expresly before the eyes in joyned letters And let all and singular boyes without passing by any be set to these in that order which shall seem fitting to their Masters and let them taking a twig into their hands note the several Letters which are to be joyned together in a syllable by putting it thereupon let them also expresse them with an articulate voice in all the Syllables to which the rest are to attend diligently Whence truly it will fall out that in a little time both by their eyes and eares they may very fully perceive all the diversity and variety of the Letters either alone or joyned with others as likewise of Syllables of which those innumerable words in the Latine Tongue viz. Nouns and Verbs are made up nor may there be any thing left which may in any sort further stop or hinder them in reading When these foundations of Reading are on this manner well laid then a further progresse may be made to the exercise of Painting or Writing which thing is to be referred to the trust of faithfull Masters and Artists in that kinde who shall at first by few draughts of Characters shew the grounds of all the Letters and teach the Writing of them all easily and neatly Now that we may come at last by Gods help to learn the Latine Tongue compendiously and in as short a space of time as may be to it there seems Twofold Course and Way may be taken and contrived The one whereof is the surest and readiest by which the Latine Tongue alone may be dispatched and whereof I shall give notice in a few words hereafter The other is a little more painful and more cumbersome or ungain by reason of our own Countrey-German-speech with which the Latine Tongue either alwayes or for a while marches joyntly no otherwise then a Roman Matron with her German Interpreter yet it is four times as I relying on Gods assistance do verily perswade my self more ready or gainer then that wherewith Masters and Scholars macerate themselves hitherto in Schools Now that which I signified a little before touching Reading that this tender age for the obtaining a speedier knowledge of the Characters of Letters is to be helpt with some certain Instruments or Images running into the eyes the same also I here repeat in the learning the Latine Tongue especially when children are to be taught who are to be brought into a place where all things which may be seen by the eyes touched with the hands set forth by the pensil or the pen even as many as we shall meet with throughout the whole world to be expressed in Latine words may be shewed to them in a well-disposed order For from these things falling under the sense of the eyes and as it were more knovvn vve vvill make entrance and begin to learn the Latine speech Four-footed living Creatures creeping Things Fishes and Birds vvhich can neither be gotten nor live well in these parts ought to be painted Others also which because of their bulk and greatnesse cannot be shut up in houses may be made in a lesser forme or drawn with the pensil yet of such a bignesse as they may be well seen by boyes even afar off And I would to God that among so great a multitude and store of Books with which the world is now troubled and in so great covetousnesse and greedinesse of Stationers every way hunting after gain there might but have such a Book as I have so often counselled and perswaded the Book-sellers and Artists in the Low-Countreys unto once come forth into Print in which all things whatsoever which may be devised and written and seen by the eyes might be described so as there might be also added to all things and all parts and members of things it s own proper word it s own proper appellation or term expressed in the Latine and Dutch Tongue Which thing how great an advantage it would be like to bring to the learning of the Latine Tongue more fully and more quickly is incredible to be spoken Now the words for these things albert they may extend themselves in number to some thousands yet by this means and help which I have named they may be learned of boyes in the space of a few weeks For as I have said formerly of Letters that outward view or survey of visible Things by the sense of seeing sets a stronger stamp upon the imagination and the waxen Tables of the memory of younger ones and imprints the image and the terming of every thing far more thoroughly and deeply then if it were brought by the ears as it were by more uncertain messengers to the Memories treasury For those things which are visible ought to enter by the sight and not by hearing As on the other side what things are perceived by the sense of hearing as sounds and all kindes of voices be those are subject to the judgement of the ears and can no more be seen or painted then that Eccho the Painter whereof Ausonius jeers and laughs at In the vulgar or ordinary way of teaching all things are referred to the ears which ought to be known and perceived by the judgement of the eyes And School-masters have judged it sufficient if Scholars could perceive onely by the ears the words or terms for things notwithstanding they have never hitherto seen or cast their eyes upon many of them Visible things are first to be known by the eyes before their Appellations and words should be perceived by the ears For first care ought to be taken that we may see Things know them and discern them one from another which is done by the benefit of the eyes before that there be the word for every thing and a

seven then others at fourteen and yet those at the fourteen years end will many times overtake and out-go the same persons who so much out-went them before And by this way their time cannot be lost for I take Learning to be ordained to teach knowledge that knowledge by practice may inable men by noble Actions to give glory to God and to do as much good as they can during the course of their whole lives Pharisaeos 4 Christus Pastores 5 malos 6 se 7 verò 6 multis 3 argumentis 3 bonum 8 comprobat 2 Pastorem 8 Dissidium 2 propterea 1 oritur 3 Lapides 4 sollentium 3 5 eum 8 prehendere 7 cupientium 6 manus 1 evadit 2 The True and Ready Way to learn the Latine Tongue Practised upon the French Lord of Montaigne and Recorded in his Essayes Lib. 1. Cap. 25. Pag. 84. THe Athenians as Plato averreth have for their part great care to be fluent and eloquent in their speech The Lacedemonians endevour to be short and compendious And those of Creet labour more to be plentifull in conceits then in language And these are the best Zeno was wont to say That he had two sorts of disciples the one he called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} curious to learne things and those weare his darlings the other he termed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} who respected nothing more then the language Yet can no man say but that to speak well is most gratious and commendable but not so excellent as some make it and I am grieved to see how we imploy most part of our time about that onely I would first know mine owne tongue perfectly then my neighbours with whom I have most commerce I must needs acknowledge that the Greeke and Latine tongues are great ornaments in a Gentleman but they are purchased at over-high a rate Vse it who list I will tell you how they may be gotten better cheap and much sooner then is ordinarily vsed which was tried in my selfe My late Father having by all the meanes and industrie that is possible for man sought amongst the wisest and men of best vnderstanding to find a most exquisite and readie way of teaching being advised of the inconvenien cies then in use was given to understand that the lingring while and best part of our youth that we imploy in learning the tongues which cost them nothing is the onely cause we can never attain to that absolute perfection of skill and knowledg of the Greeks Romanes I do not believe that to be the onely cause But so it is the expedient my Father found out was this that being yet at nurce before the first loosing of my tongue I was delivered to a Germaine who died since a most excellent Phisitian in France he being then altogether ignorant of the French tongue but exquisitely readie and skilfull in the Latine This man whom my Father had sent for of purpose and to whome he gave very great entertainment had me continually in his armes and was mine onely overseer There were also joined unto him two of his countrimen but not so learned whose charge was to attend and now and then to play with me and all these together did never entertain me with other then the Latine tongue As for others of his houshold it was aninviolable rule that neither himselfe nor my mother nor man not maid servant were suffered to speake one word in my companie except such Latine words as every one had learned to chat and pratle with me It were strange to tell how every one in the house profited therein My Father and my Mother learned so much Latine that for a neede they could understand it when they heard it spoken even so did all the houshold servants namely such as were neerest and most about me To be short we were all so Latinized that the townes round about us had their share of it insomuch as even at this day many Latine names both of workmen and of their tooles are yet in use among them And as for my selfe I was about six years old could understand no more French or Perigordine then Arabike and that with out art without books rules or grammer without whipping or whining I had gotten as pure a Latine tongue as my Master could speake the rather because I could neither mingle or confound the same with other tongues If for an Essay they would give me a Theame whereas the fashion in Colledges is to give it in French I had it in bad Latine to reduce the same into good And Nicholas Grucchi who hath written De comitiis Romanorum William Guerenti who hath commented Aristotle George Buchanan that famous Scottish Poet and Marke-Antonie Muret whom while he lived both France and Italie to this day acknowledge to have been the best Oratour all which have been my familiar tutors have often told me that in mine infancy I had the Latine tongue so ready and so perfect that themselves feared to take me in hand And Buchanan whom afterward I saw attending on the Marshall of Brissacke told me he was about to write a Treatise of the Institution of Children and that he took the modell and pattern from mine for at that time he had the charge and bringing up of the young Earl of Brissack whom since we have seen prove so worthy and so valiant a Captain As for the Greek wherein I have but small understanding my Father purposed to make me learn it by art But by new and unaccustomed meanes that is by way of recreation and exercise We did tosse our declinations and conjugations to and fro as they do who by way of a certain game at Tables learn both Arithmetick and Geometry For amongst other things he had especially been perswaded to make me tast and apprehend the fruits of Duty and Science by an unforced kinde of will and of mine own choice and without any compulsion or rigour to bring me up in all mildenesse and liberty yea with such kinde of superstition that whereas some are of opinion that suddenly to awaken young children and as it were by violence to startle and fright them out of their dead sleep in a morning wherein they are more heavy and deeper plunged then we doth greatly trouble and distemper their braines he would every morning cause me to be awakened by the sound of some Instrument and I was never without a servant who to that purpose attended upon me This example may serve to judge of the rest as also to commend the judgement and tender affection of so careful and loving a father who is not to be blamed though he reaped not the fruits answerable to his exquisite toil and painful manuring Two things hindered the same first the barrenesse and unfit soil for howbeit I were of a sound and strong constitution and of a tractable and yielding condition yet was I so heavy so sluggish and so dull that I could not be rouzed yea were it to go to play from out mine idle drowzinesse What I saw I saw it perfectly and under this heavy and as it were Lethe-complexion did I breed hardie imaginations and opinions far above my years My spirit was very slow and would go no further then it was led by others my apprehension blockish my invention poor and besides I had a marvellous defect in my weak memory it is therefore no wonder if my father could never bring me to any perfection Secondly as those that in some dangerous sicknesse moved with a kinde of hopefull and greedy desire of perfect health again give ear to every Leache or Empirick and follow all counsels the good man being exceedingly fearfull to commit any oversight in a matter he took so to heart suffered himself at last to be led away by the common opinion which like unto the Cranes followeth ever those that go before and yielded to custome Having those no longer about him that had given him his first directions and which they had brought out of Italie Being but six years old I was sent to the Colledge of Guienne then most flourishing and reputed the best in France where it is impossible to adde any thing to the great care he had both to chuse the best and most sufficient Masters that could be found to read unto me as also for all other circumstances pertaining to my education wherein contrary to usuall customes of Colledges he observed many particular rules But so it is it was ever a Colledge My Latine Tongue was forthwith corrupted whereof by reason of discontinuance I afterward lost all manner of use which new kinde of institution stood me in no other stead but that at my first admittance it made me to over-skip some of the lower formes and to be placed in the highest For at thirteen years of age that I left the Colledge I had read over the whole course of Philosophy as they call it but with so small profit that I can now make no account of it The first taste or feeling I had of Books was of the pleasure I took in reading the fables of Ovids Metamorphosies for being but seven or eight years old I would steal and sequester my self from all other delights onely to read them Forsomuch as the tongue wherein they were written was to me naturall and it was the easiest book I knew and by reason of the matter therein contained most agreeing with my yong age For of King Arthur of Lancelot du Luke of Amadis of Huon of Burdeaux and such idle time-consuming and wit-besotting trash of Books wherein youth doth commonly ammuse it self I was not so much as acquainted with their names and to this day know not their bodies nor what they contain So exact was my Discipline c. 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