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A16864	A consolation for our grammar schooles: or, a faithfull and most comfortable incouragement, for laying of a sure foundation of all good learning in our schooles, and for prosperous building thereupon More specially for all those of the inferiour sort, and all ruder countries and places; namely, for Ireland, Wales, Virginia, with the Sommer Ilands, and for their more speedie attaining of our English tongue by the same labour, that all may speake one and the same language. ...	Brinsley, John, fl. 1581-1624.	1622 (1622)	STC 3767; ESTC S106549	63,526	102

exquisite perfection the bookes of such as haue written the purest style in English in each faculty which they purpose to exercise themselues in For strangers who vnderstand the Latine tongue at least in some sort and would learne our tongue themselues or would teach it vnto others publiquely or priuately besides the former helpes for reading English 1. The English Grammar called Grammatica Anglicana a little Epitome written according to the rules of Art by P. Gr. printed at Cambridge Anno 1594. 2. Logonomia Anglica by Maister Gill Schoole-maister of Paules 3. Translations first grammaticall which leade the Scholar directly to learne our tongue after other translations and so the best English Authors and Dictionaries as before Rhetoricke For Rhetoricke so farre as shall be necessary for the Grammar-schoole 1. For Tropes and Figures of Rhetoricke and so for other figures of Grammar Maister Farnabees Tropes and figures so shortly comprized in verse as that they may be most easily gotten in a very little time and so likewise kept in memorie to serue for euery good vse 2. For a more full vnderstanding of that little booke and of all other matters belonging to Rhetoricke as for a methodicall handling and short comprizing of the whole Art by precepts illustrations by examples and the like M. Butlers Rhetorick of Magd. colledge in Oxf. with a short commentary adioyned now the 4. time printed 3. For the vse of Rhetoricke viz. for the practise thereef in Theames Declamatious Orations c. The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Manuductio ad artem Rhetoricam by Maister Vicars of Queenes Colledge in Oxford Religion Concerning Religion for laying surely the first grounds of our holy Religion in Schooles according to our good lawes and for seasoning the first and tender yeares of our children therewith wherein the Iesuites shall rise in iudgement against vs being farre more vigilant and industrious to destroy then we to saue to ouerthrow the Gospell then wee to propagate and spreade it 1. To the end that Scholars may speedily get and euer keepe in fresh memorie with ease and delight the whole summe of the sacred story viz. the holie Bible being the sole foundation of our Religion and so the summe of euery Chapter therein wherby they may become sound Christians and in time through the Lords blessing admirable Diuines God hath prouided a litle Booke called Bibliorum summula which comprizeth the arguments or sums of euery Chapter of the whole Bible in Disticks viz. each Chapter in two verses beginning alphabetically that they may be more happily committed to memorie and recalled more easily when they are forgotten This booke is most painefully and profitably composed in a familiar and easie verse by Maister Shaw according to the contents of the seuerall Chapters Hereunto is adioyned in the end for further helpe of memorie the same contriued farre more briefly viz. in a very few verses as namely Genesis hauing fiftie Disticks in the Summula according to the fifty Chapters is comprized in ten verses euery verse whereof comprehends fiue Chapters almost euery word notes a seuerall Chapter thus notably deuised by Math. Martinius 2. For the first principles or iudiments in Religion to be taught in Catechizing and for building soundly vpon the sacred Scriptures according to the doctrine of our Church besides our ordinary Catechismes by Law established for a further vnfolding and demonstrating of the principles out of the expresse texts of the Word Maister Perkins six Principles expounded with many other and chiefly such briefe ones as by their oftest printing do testifie the greatest liking and most generall approbation of the godly learned VVriting For faire writing in our owne and all the chiefe learned tongues Copie bookes prepared of purpose for the Grammar-schooles as in Secretarie for our English so for the Latine Greeke and Hebrew together with directions for writing in the beginning of them printed by Maister Thomas Man whereby all Scholars well entred and practized from their beginning euery day a little may come to write commendably and many of them verie faire euery of these hands without hindering their learning as is proued by experience Memorie For the helpe of Memorie besides all directions for briefe summes of euery matter as are set downe in their places in the Grammar●schoole and others and besides diuers good rules and precepts for memorie in a little booke called The Castle of Memorie Chap. 6. Maister VVillies his booke of Memorie called Mnemonica siue Reminiscendi are gathered out of the best who haue written thereof out of which the most profitable things may be selected and vsed by them who are judicious Other Bookes and helps some of them readie for the Presse others in good forwardnesse to be soone prepared if they shall be generally desired and the desire signified to the Stationers as necessarie or profitable for the ends for which they haue bene trauelled in as namely 1 FOr furnishing with fit matter for Theams in Prose or Verse Latine and Greeke which so troubleth young scholars and discourageth them for that they know not where to finde such fit matter for them and must needes be very difficult before a great deale of reading and practise there is an Index or booke of References gathered out of their Schoole-authors and others onely pointing at the places where to finde them 2. For patterns for Theames Tullies Paradoxes translated grammatically with a short Analysis in the margent whereby they may be learned more perfectly and vnderstood more fully to that end 3. For direction and patterns for writing pithy and short letters in English which is amongst vs both most commendable and of principall and daily vse The Laconicall Epistles translated into a good English style with the Grammar order and propriety in the margents 4. For the more speedy and profitable learning the Ianua linguarum for euery good vse whereas now the English in many places keepeth onely the sense but varieth both from the verball and Grammar order and also from the propriety of the words in the Latin wherby the learners are oft exceedingly puzled and carried amisse there ●s prouided a grammaticall translation to be set in the margen●s in the English to carry the learner aright both for proprietie and Grammar And also in the Index or Table are set downe the declining of the Nownes and Verbs with the Genders of the Nownes to serue in 〈◊〉 of a Dictionarie for all of them and withall both the doubtfull quantities and likewise the Etymologies or notations of the words briefly being examined by comparing the best Authors in that kinde and conference with other learned So that the learner may soone runne through it to get both English by the Latine and Latine by the English with certainty and for the other vses mentioned For furnishing with Terence ●phrase with the best matter Terentianus Christianus

kindes For phrases in generall Maister Drax his Cilliepeia For Epithets Ciceroniana Epitheta For some select Phrases to this purpose and the like Maister Farnabees phrases Epistles and Letters For patterns of short Epistles and pithy letters of all sorts of matter see the Laconicall Epistles to wit the shortest and pithiest gathered out of Tullie Manutius Politian Erasmus and many others comprized by Buchlerus in a little volume of purpose to this end For examples seruing and directing for imitation of sundry kindes of Epistles both Consolatory Gratulatory and also Hortatory with all the rest of the kinds of Examples see Flores Sententiae scribendique formulae illustres For pure phrases more peculiarly belonging to Epistles see Manutius phrases Orations For Orations The Orations of sundry and those of diuers kindes of Morall matters and vpon sundry occasions gathered and set forth by Melchior Iunius Examining of Phrases in Prose For helpe in examining of phrases and so for obseruing propriety and purity therein 1. Godscalcus his obseruations of the Latin tongue digested alphabetically 2. Schorus phrases shewing also the manner how to obserue phrases in the reading of Authors 3. Erasmus his Epitome of Vallaes elegancies of the last Edition 4. Popma de Differentijs verborum For flourishing and amplifying in Prose see Ciceroniana Epitheta Antitheta Adiuncta Poetrie Besides Textoris Epitheta See Buchleri Thesaurus poëticus a booke of notable vse for each scholar for helpes of Epithets and Poeticall phrases and also for his direction of the right manner of making a pure verse with other things belonging thereto For quantities of Syllables Smetius his Prosodia Dictionaries For both English and Latine especially for finding out the fittest Latin words to the English and most naturall and according to propriety first together with the Etymologies or notations of the Latine words Riders dictionarie of the last For giuing the Greeke to the Latine and for supply of sundry of the best Latin phrases expounded and the vse shewed Thomas Dictionarie of the last For a short comprising of most Latine Primitiues in Sentences except those which belong to the seuerall Arts and Trades c. and so to furnish with most words of all sorts for reading of any ordinary author belonging to the grammar schoole or otherwise Ianua linguarum a booke in twelue hundred sentences containing the most of the ordinary words to be euen as a Dictionarie in the childrens heads translated into English to the end it may be more easily and speedily gotten Analysis or resoluing of Authors For a plaine and easie resolution of the matter of Authors meete for young scholars see the grammaticall translation of the first booke of Tullies Offices Also of the first booke of Ouids Metamorphosis And withall the like translation of the first and last Eclogue of Vìrgil and of his fourth booke of the Georgickes De Apibus some of these in the inmost colums others in the outmost For a more learned Analysis in Latine both Logicall and Rhetoricall see Ramus Commentaries on the Eclogues and Georgickes and also vpon all the Orations of Tully on which he hath commented Also Piscators Analysis of Tullies Offices For a short and methodicall Analysis of the seuerall bookes of the Scripture and of each chapter therein see Gemma Fabri Disputing scholar-like of Grammar Questions and to prepare for more learned Disputations in the Vniuersities 1. In English by way of Questions and Answers to make children perfect in the Accidence and Grammar The Posing of the Parts 2. In Latine for the better scholars in a more large and scholar-like dispute Maister Stockwoods disputations of Grammar 3. For the like dispute in Tullies Offices by Questions and Answers the better to vnderstand the rare and almost diuine matter for direction of manners in that booke Maister Brasbridge his Questions of Tullies Offices Proper words for seuerall Arts and Sciences To be able to get and remember words appertaining to Arts Trades Sciences histories of diuers kinds and the like as any one desireth them first Maister Stanbridge his Vocabula in verse These verses are some of them amended already the rest so purposed After him where he ends others may be adioyned in the end of Hunters Cosmographie in verse likewise For words belonging to Astronomy and Cosmography and also the ancient proper names of places as Countries Cities and Riuers c. Hunters Cosmographie in verse If the names of the places riuers c. as they are termed at this day were set directly ouer the heads of each of the ancient names there after the manner of Stanbridges Vocabula it might be of most excellent vse and soone gotten or set on the opposite page directly against them All other words of like nature belonging to the seuerall histories or whatsoeuer else might be thus comprised in verse after the manner of Stanbridge or Hunter or otherwise they might be set downe in a short narration in forme of a Dialogue grammatically translated after the manner of Corderius Dialogues wherein he sets out to the like purpose a very sumptuous banquet in an historicall narration in the 22. Dialogue of his fourth booke Such a booke might easily be compiled by a iudicious scholar of a pregnant wit hauing meete leisure by the helpe of Hadrianus Iunius his Nomenclator and the speciall Dictionaries for seuerall vses and so any such words be very readily gotten by studying and reading them oft forth of English into Latin as experience teacheth in the like But all these would be gotten much sooner if being thus verbally translated into English the English were set by it selfe so to study it out of them like as the Grammar translations are Greeke Whereas there is nothing in any tongue for the perfect obtaining of it but Grammar words and practise of them in a right composing and setting them together I meane first the knowledge of the Grammar rules belonging to that tongue words to expresse the minde and practise of both in reading Authors and in writing for most easie and speedy attaining to the Greek tongue which hath bene wont to be so difficult and tedious God hath prouided these readie helpes 1. For the Grammar Maister Camdens is of all other most easie and profitable as I take it like as for Westminster so for all our schooles for that it followes the order of our Latine Grammar most directly chiefly in the Syntax wherein many of the rules are the very same or neare vnto them The Anomalies in the Verbs being set alphabetically so as they may be found very readily and the Dialects set directly after the order of the Declensions and Coniugations that by it alone well studied most difficulties may be easily vnderstood and answered For all other difficulties and wherein it seemes to faile see Cleonards Greeke Grammar with Antesignanus

set foorth by Sylburgius wherein by the help of the large Index you may be resolued of most doubts Hereunto adioyne if need be to enquire further the Anomalies Dialects and other difficulties set downe alphabetically in the end of Scapulaes Dictionary Secondly for attaining very speedily to all the Greek Primitiues or Radices which being had all the rest are easily and plainely learned as deriued from them God hath prouided 1. The Clauis linguae Graecae by Lubine In which litle briefe all or most of the Greeke Radices are included in some seuen hundred little sentences in imitation of Ianua linguarum with a double Index adioyned viz. both Latine before the Greeke and Greeke before the Latine whereby they may be soone gotten and easily kept or recouered being forgotten 2. For the more full vnderstanding of the tongue for propriety and right significations Notations or Etymologies Deriuations and the like see Fundamentum linguae Graecae a little Epytome gathered briefly of purpose according to the order of Scapula For the larger explication of the same with phrases and vse of words see Scapula For practise in reading some vsuall Authors The fittest for yong scholars so faire as I can iudge after they haue runne through their Clauis if you will begin with Poetry that they may learne to make a verse in Greek is Theognis his sentences with the other Poets ioyned with him as namely Phocilides Pythagoras c. with the Latine translation and annotations thereof set forth by Silburgius Some whereof being learned without booke perfectly is a speciall helpe that scholars may haue quantities phrase and apt morall matter for verse 2. If you please to reade Hesiode his Opera Dies you may vse Ceporine and Melancthons Commentaries set foorth by Iohannes Frisius Tigurinus and the new translation of it by Erasmus Schemidt professor at Wittenberg Or if you desire to reade Homer which is most generally approued of all as the most excellent Poet besides the Latine Translations especially that which expoundeth it most neerly and properly For the better vnderstanding and expressing of it in English Maister Chapmans translation in English meeter whom we may rightly call the English Homer To these you may adde if you will Eustathius and the large Commentarie of Spondanus For the best and fittest Authors in Prose to be read in Schooles as namely Isocrates ad Daemonicum are the translations of Wolphius and also of Rodolphus Agricola and like wise the translation of Antonius Scorus with his annotations adioyned to his booke De ratione discendi linguae Graecae 2. For Zenophon the translation of his 3. first bookes de Cyri vita disciplina For more speedy reading the Greeke Testament Pasors Dictionary gathered of purpose to that end What is defectiue may be supplied by the Fundamentum Piscator and others VVriting in Greeke For writing exercises in Greeke or translating into Greeke besides the Clauis linguae Graecae for words and also Thomas his Dictionarie for phrase you may vse Garthius his Lexicon and withall for prose Poselii Calligraphia Elegantiae Graecae by Vollandus In verse for Epithets and Authorities Dinnerus his Greeke Epithets For morall matter in Greeke with excellent sentences and discourses out of all the ancient and best Greeke Authors for the vse of Translations Theames Verses Declamations or Orations Stobaei sententiae called Anthologia or Cornucopia of the largest Speaking Greeke For speaking of ordinarie matters in Greeke Poselius his Dialogues Hebrue For a most speedy attaining to the Hebrue 1. For the Grammar though euery one may take for his owne vse what Grammar he hath learned or is most familiarly acquainted with and supply out of others what is wanting therein yet for him that is newly to beginne or desires most easily to teach or direct others I take vnder better iudgement Martinius to be the best My reasons are 1. For that it is most methodicall proceeding according to the right order of Nature and rules of Art 2. For that it hath answering vnto it Maister Vdals Hebrue Grammar in English being in effect a meere translation of Martinius onely leauing out some things which he thought lesse necessary and making most things in Martinius very plaine in stead of a Commentary as the translations do the Authors 3. For that the Martinius Grammar printed by Raphalengius and by Abrahamus VVeerlinus at Berne haue a Praxis adioyned for the parsing of three Psalmes viz. the 1. 25. and 68 like as Maister Vdals hath in English which Praxis is so orderly for the right examining or analysing of euery word according to the order of nature and art and according as all things are set downe in the Grammar in order of the Chapters that they leade the learner directly as by the hand to the plaine parsing and resoluing of those three Psalmes and by them auy other part of the Hebrue Bible And lastly for that Maister Vdals Grammar which I commend as a short Commentarie to it hath also a briefe Epitome of the Hebrue Lexicon adioyned for the more speedy finding out any word and so attaining the tongue Or in stead of Martinius Maister Vdals Grammar it selfe which I finde to be farre more easie for the learner and much sooner gotten for the vse of it and also may be readily deliuered and vttered in Latine at least by comparing with Martinius For the best Lexicon or Dictionarie Buxtorphius his Epitome for continuall vse and also his Thesaurus for more exquisite knowledge or For giuing the Hebrue words to the Latine Lexicon Latino-Hebraicum in the end of the Epitome of Pagnine by Raphalengius For helpe for construing and so reading priuately and knowing the Radices The Interlineal Bible by Arias Montanus For the Psalmes Tossanus may affoord some helpe English Concerning our owne language whereas some great learned haue much and long complained that in most Schooles there hath bene litle care to teach Scholars to expresse their mindes readily in proprietie and puritie of speech so to helpe to adorne our owne tongue whereof wee haue continuall practise to the end that they may grow herein with the Latine and other learned tongues God hath prouided these helpes 1. The vse of the grammaticall translations hauing to that end both proprietie and also varietie of words and phrase to expresse the minde may be a good entrance for the yonger sort 2. After them all the other translations vsed onely in such sort as hath bene and shall be further shewed in the Grammar schoole so to ascend to those who haue written most exquisitely in that kinde of Translation 3. Dictionaries where fit words are wanting to make choise of those English words in them which best agree to the matter in hand 4. Adioyne to these for them who would grow to more