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A85540	October the 22. 1649. The three-penny cooks fat in the fire, or rhe [sic] downefall of as-in-presentis; or the schoole-master under the black-rod. Or the brain-breakers breaker newly broke out againe. By Thomas Grantham, master in art of Peter-house in Cambridge, heretofore professor in Bowlane and Mug-well-street neere Barber Chyrurgions Hall: now over against Graies Inn Gate in Holborne, at Master Bulls.	Grantham, Thomas, d. 1664.	1642 (1642)	Wing G1560; Thomason E575_26; ESTC R206345	8,397	12

October the 22. 1649. The Three-penny Cooks fat in the fire Or the downefall of As-in-presentie Or the Schoole-master under the Black-rod Or the Brain-breakers breaker newly broke out againe By Thomas Grantham Master in art of Peter-house in Cambridge Heretofore Professor in Bowlane and Mugwell-street neere Barbar Chyrurgions Hall Now over against Graies Inn Gate in Holborne at Master Bulls Printed for Thomas Pabody in Queenes-head-Alley in Pater-noster-row 1650. VPon a time walking by my selfe I fell into contemplation of my former life and of all the miseries that befell me either by my inconsideratenesse and rashnesse or Gods justice upon me for my sins And although I added weight to some of those crosses by taking them more heavily then I ought to have done Yet I found nothing crucifi'd me so much as my long and tedious going to the Schoole how many showers of teares how many streams of blood And I was cuffed as if the Messenger of Satan had beene sent to buffit me and after two seaven years spent constantly in this Bride-well so that I was nineteene or twenty yeares of age I could not understand so much Latine as a sucking Child nor speak so much as a spelling Child Methought it was strange that a Child should suck in more with Milke then I should get with so many drops of Blood having so much advantage of yeares but some will say it may be you were very dull in learning if I were never so dull nor never so stupid nor never so blockish was this cruelty a way to quicken me But some will say wee know the misery 's so great that many of us had rather have our Children ignorant then learn with so much torment Therefore the time will be better spent by me in showing the remedy and that is my task at this present 1. Remedy One remedy against this Epidemicall disease is let a Boy learn his Grammer Aschams way which way those learned Schooles beyond Seas doe highly commend that is to understand within Booke and to apply every necessary Rule It makes no matter whether he can say his Grammer word by word without Booke or no if he can give the sence without Booke and turne to the Rule within Booke it is sufficient No University man no great Scholler can say his Grammer word by word without Booke no not the Master himselfe and yet he whips the Schollers for that he cannot doe himself If a man remember there is such a Rule or such a sence of the R●l● it suffices No Grammer have the same words the sense is all wee looke for and so soone as wee come to the University wee forget to say our Rules word by word without book may scorn and deride him that doth it Thus this many yeares great labour is lost in a moneth or two and is so farre from profiting that it becomes rediculous Consider also the Grammers which were before Lilly were some of them almost as bigge as a Church-Bible if you take out the Apocrypha and Common-Prayer Now to learne these word by word without Booke was a taske passing the patience of an Asse Upon this Erasmus concludeth that Grammer it selfe is enough to make a man spend his whole life in tortures Ascham in his first Book hath these words so as the Grammer-booke be alwayes in the Schollers hand and also used of him as a Dictionary for every present use this is a lively and perfect way for teaching of Rules where the common way used in common Schooles to reade the Grammer alone by it selfe is tedious for the Master hard for the Sholler cold and uncomfortable fur them both Now you see according to Ascham the Grammer must be used as a Dictionary and he that knowes any thing knowes that a Dictionary is not to be learned word by word without Booke therefore not a Grammer He tells you in this place that it is tedious to a Scholler let any man consider who hath not the patience of an Asse what a tedious thing it is to have all the Grammer or most part of it lapt up in his head word by word and presently to apply every Rule word by word or else up he goes if he were as good as George a Greene Read Ascham in his second Booke these are his words I remember when I was young in the North there went to the Grammer-schoole little Children they came from thence great Lubbars always learning and little profiting learning without booke every thing understanding within book little or nothing their whole knowledge by learning without the booke was tyed only to their tongue and lips and never ascended up to the braine and head and therefore was soone spit out of the mouth againe they were as men alwayes going but ever out of the way and why For their whole labour or rather great toyle without order was even vaine idlenesse without profit Indeed they tooke great paines about learning but imployed small labour in learning when by this way prescribed in this Booke being strait plain and easie the Scholler is alwayes labouring with pleasure and ever going on forward with profit Here this Scholler famous all over Christendome and the glory of his Kingdom for Languages tells you learning without booke was vain idlenesse without profit He tells you they tooke great paines about learning but imployed small labour in learning Erasmus the restorer of the Fathers Greeke and Latine the greatest Writer in his time incomperable for Wit Learning and Eloquence hath the same words some make it their greatest care to learne the Rules word by word without book which thing saith he I allow not of for it is great paines to no purpose nor profit all Brinsley a famous Schoole-Master in his Booke called A Consolation for our Grammer Schooles writes of one Master Tovey a Schoole-master equall to the best that teaching Aschums way that is only the sense of the Rules brought a Nobleman to a perfection beyond all expectation Comenins a man admired for his quicknesse in teaching the Languages hath writ sharply against this dog-bolt way Innumerable are the learned men who have sought to take away the servitude and slavery that Youth hath undergone some Authors I have quoted in my Animadversions upon Cambdens Greeke Grammer made for the use of Westminster-Schoole and I have shewed and I will shew more hereafter That it is a false obscure imperfect Gammer abounding with above twelve grosse errors besides many little ones and those who are Schoole masters of great Schooles and make men beleeve they know much when alas it is very little they know they might blush if they had any shame to let so many errours goe uncorrected in a Grammer which is the foundation of a Language If Foundations be false and rotten what will the building be I need not spend much time upon this point because I have represented in a Comedy often acted by my Schollers the Cruelty Folly and Non-sense of Common School-masters which I

intend to Print as soon as I can Looke upon Aschams successe in this way in his first booke he speakes thus of Queene Elizabeth It is your shame I speake to you all you young Gentlemen of England that one Maid should goe beyond you all in excellency of Learning and knowledge of divers tongues point forth six of the best given Gentlemen of this Court and they altogether shew not so much will not spend so much time bestow not so many houres dayly orderly and constantly for the increase of Learning and Knowlidge as doth the Queenes Majesty here Yea I beleeve th●t besides her perfect readinesse in Latine Italian French and Spanish she did reade more Geeke every day then some Prebbendary of this Church doth read Latine in a whole weeke And that which is most praise-worthy of all within the Walls of her Privy-Chamber she hath obtained that excellency of Learning to understand speake and write both wittily with head and faire with hand as scarce one or two rare Wits in both the Universities have in many yeares reached unto Among all the Benefits that God hath blessed me withall next the knowledge of Christs true Religion I count this the greatest that it pleased God to cal me to be one poore Minister in setting forward these excellent Gifts of Learning in this most excellent Prince Looke upon his successe in his second Booke amongst many others one Witney a most accomplished Gentleman these are his words I gave him a translation to turne into Latine which he did so choisely so orderly without any great misse in the hardest points of Grammer that some in seven yeares in Grammer-schooles yea and some in the Universities too cannot doe halfe so well and this perfection be obtained from Christmas to Alhallowes-tide this Scholler was altogether ignorant of the Latine Tongue and the Rules before Now briefly take some few Reasons against this way of saying word by word without Booke All Arts as Geometree Arithmetick Logick Navigation men attaine too and never learne Rule word by word without booke and what offence hath Grammer done that it must be cuft into a Boy word by word without booke If learning without booke word by word be necessary for the understanding of a thing then it is before a Boy understands or after he understands Now for a Boy to learne without booke like a Parret that he understands not is very laborious and rediculous and to learne without booke after he understands that is to no purpose for the Master understanding himselfe the sense of the Rule neglects saying word by word without booke and whips Shollers for that he cannot doe himselfe If saying without book word by word be profitable to the understanding then he that saith best without booke understands best but this is false there are many that can say much Scripture without book but understand not so well as those that can say none Take this instance Christopher Grecu● Clerk of a g●eat Parish a man of threescore yeares and ten he can say all the Psalmes without booke and yet I dare not trust him to apply a Psalm after my Sermon I have had Boyes come from common Schooles could say all the Grammer word for word without booke and yet could not make halfe a Line of true Latine and that which is most absurd of all they teach a Boy to make Latine by the Latine Rules when a Boy understands not Latine just as if a man should teach one an art in French when he understands not French then there are many Boyes can say without book to their Companions or by themselves but the Master strutting with the Rod in his hand and his imperious looke and threatning puts a Boy cleare out as for a Master to talk thus to a Boy Sirra I le smoke you I le make your Buttocks blush I le make you feare me these words confound a Boy and fright him out of all If a Boy be to say this Rule A●ectives that signifie fulnesse emptinesse plenty c. If he mis-place a word although the sense be the same presently the Master fells him all along where as some Grammers have the first words last and the last words first the sense being still the same Observe Doctor Webs words in his appeale to truth now if Gammer should be the best course to Languages and Kings may have their choice of best courses I wonder what Grammers were made by Mithridates and that makes me wonder more we that have no businesse but a Language spend all our life and are not perfect in one and he that had a Kingdoms affairs to look upon had two and tw●nty compleat Languages Now if a Language cannot be got but by learning word for word without book then Mithridates who had a Kingdomes affairs to look to must learn two twentie Grammars word by word without booke and to learne a Grammer in this manner will take up five yeares to be compleat in a Language as he was wil be at least five years more which reckoned make up two hundred and twentie yeares Now Mithridates lived not a quarter of the time Doctor Webbe in that learned work quotes above a hundred learned men who envey bitterly against Grammarians and he undertakes to prove by learned Authors that a Language may be learned without a Grammer which needs no proofe at all to men of common sense How many are there that can speake French and Latine that never saw a Grammar Many young Gentlemen and Gentlewomen have learned to speake French in halfe a yeare who never knew any Latine Doctor Webbe names many Noblemen who speake Latine excellent well at five yeares of age having nothing but Latine spoken to them before And I have knowne many who spoke Latine and French admirable well and understood Greeke very well in a twelve-moneth And this is easily done by joyning Doctor Webbes way with Aschams I had Boyes when I was in London who had beene but one yeare at most with me and in these foure points we challenged any Schoole in London First who understands the Greeke and Latine Grammers best in Accents and Dialects and all things necessary Secondly who understands a Greek and Latin Authour best Thirdly who can prove a Greeke or Latine Verse best Fourthly who can make a Greeke or Latine Oration or a Greeke and Latine Verse best and soonest and the highest of my Schollars was but fifteene yeares of age and the second to him but ten Some I had I confesse could not doe a quarter so much which was no fault of mine For I often told them if they were carelesse and would not mind and would not learne without cuffling pulling lugging and whipping they must goe to Masters that delight in this way of teaching They may be taught in many places very reasonably this way as for a noble or seven shillings a quarter at some Free-Schooles they may have it for nothing Some Schoole-Masters thinke they pay me