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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02872	Good manners for schools, or, A paraphrase upon qui mihi, &c. Done into English verse by O. Dykes, for the use of the grammar-school at the Academy in Chancery-Lane.	Dykes, Oswald, 1670?-1728.	1700 (1700)	Wing D2967; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.2[213]	3,013	1

GOOD MANNERS for SCHOOLS Or A PARAPHRASE upon QUI MIHI c. Done into English Verse by O. DYKES For the Use of the Grammar-School at the Academy in Chancery-Lane BOys that wou'd Scholars be your Minds dispose To learn Good Manners and obey these Laws Rise early and shake off the drowsy Nod Then kneel you down and humbly Pray to God First wash your Hands and Face then comb your Hair And dress you with a neat and decent Air. Keep your Apparel clean from Ink or Stain And nasty Spots of Dirt or Grease refrain Your Cloths not torn to Tatters ev'ry Day By stubborn Fighting and your Ramping Play Fly Slothfulness and make away to School And never play the Tardy-lingring Fool That loses both his Time and breaks my Rule There a Good morrow to your Master pay And greet your Fellows with a Happy Day Sit down and your appointed Seat ne'er quit Without Command or Leave to vacate it When Nature prompts you to refresh your Wit He 's Highest still who best performs his Part And understands his Lesson best by Heart For Real Merit always must take Place And Undeserving Idle Boys disgrace Pen Ink and Paper are such useful Tools As must be ready in the Lab'ring Schools Fit for your Bus'ness But Good Pens I mean Your Ink the Blackest and your Paper Clean That you may write your Master's Dictates Fair T'emprove your Learning and commend your Care Without one fulsom Fault or filthy Blot Like a dull Sloven or an Idle Sot But for good Precepts little Books are fit Fair Writing to loose Papers ne'er commit You should preserve not throw away your Wit Weigh what you read your Lesson often Conn Till you well know the meaning of what 's done For chatt'ring like a Parrot Things by Rote Is arrant Nonsense and a mighty Fau't Consult your Fellows and your Betters ask Upon a difficult or doubtful Task By Doubts and Questions Knowledge is obtain'd Who nothing doubted nothing ever gain'd Dull Block-heads stand like thoughtless Statues mute That seek no Information in a Doubt To know the Truth of Things beyond dispute Who ask no Questions and make no demand Will never Learn and never Understand Learn Wisdom and make what is taught your own Oblivion will provoke an awful Frown To be instructed and forget the Sense Argues intolerable Negligence It is in vain to teach a rambling Brain That never thinks and nothing will retain You must be mindful and attentive still To hear your Master's Judgment and his Will All his Instructions and his Words must be Laid up in Everlasting Memory For if what 's told the heedless Boy is lost He might as well have taught a Sensless Post Nothing 's so Hard so Crabbed and Abstruse In a dark Author or mysterious Muse But may be quickly overcome with Ease And difficulties after Conquest please Take pains and Learning easy you will find By care and application of the Mind When you 're so careful and industrious grown Knowledge and Glory will your Labour Crown For as the Earth's uncultivated Soyl Without good Tillage and continual Toyl Brings forth no hopeful Flow'rs nor Lovely Fruit But all lies Wast and Barren Ground about So Boys that do not exercise their Sense With earnest study and great diligence For loss of Time may justly be revil'd Their Parts are Fruitless and their Wit grows Wild. The Laws of speaking you must nicely mind Pratling's impertinent and noisy Wind. Govern the forward Tongue and still be free From too much Babling and Loquacity Clamour creates your Master mighty Pain Offends his Ear and more disturbs his Brain Plying your Lesson then avoid all Noise Speak with a Modest Low submissive Voice But saying to your Master speak aloud To be distinctly heard and understood Learn at your Fingers Ends what e'er you get And ev'ry Word without your Book repeat Pronounce your Latin roundly stamm'ring shun That common Vice call'd Hesitation Let no one prompt or tell you when you say Such fault'ring Repetitions spend the Day Make Lessons long and tedious by delay All Prompting prejudices foolish Boys The sense confounds and Memory destroys To ev'ry Question let your Answer be Modest Ingenious Pertinent and Free Wise answers will your commendation raise Advance your Learning and deserve great Praise Gabling too fast or drawling out too slow Your Words are two abhorr'd Extreams you know Of speaking well Betwixt both Vices lye The grace of Speech and common Decency As often as occasion bids you speak It must be still in Latin or in Greek As ev'ry Boy 's capacity among Your Fellows understands each diff'rent Tongue But barb'rous Language and false Latin shun Like an Infection spreading through the Town This Vice is dangerous and catching grown Instruct your Fellows too when they require And th' ignorant with better light inspire Shew them in ev'ry dark and unknown Line The great advantage of good Discipline Whoever teaches the unlearn'd will find His own improvement in the others Mind And though he were the most unlearn'd before What he Imparts like Char'ty to the Poor Will both Confirm his Knowledge and increase his Store But forward Babblers never imitate Who Barbarism do confidently prate Talk Latin fluent but gross Smatt'rers be To the disgrace of Roman Purity The Silly'st Coxcomb of 'em all is Proud Of being cry'd-up by the Barb'rous Crowd As if Assurance Falshood justifies And Popular Applause makes Ign'rance Wise If you would rightly know the Grammar Rules And learn to speak true Latin in the Schools With greater Elegance and better Grace You must more Learned Company embrace Read the best Authors of the Latin Race Study their Writings of the purest Note One Easy Subjects for Good Breeding Taught Tully and Terence and great Virgil's fit T' employ your Youth and Exercise your Wit Who never read their Famous Books ne're saw The Light of Learning nor the Roman Law Some naughty Boys delight to spend their Times In Sordid Trifles or Notorious Crimes Who ne'er to Virtue do their Minds apply Renounce all Goodness and Sobriety For a more lazy Life of Tempting Play Which Scholars to Ill Courses does betray Others are better Fed then Taught at Home Grow to their Fellows Rude and Troublesome Disturb the Studious with their Hands or Feet And never will be Quiet in their Seat Others again do boast themselves well-Born Inferiours Hector and Revile with Scorn But their Illustrious Birth and Noble Blood Can ne'er make Pride or such Ill-Manners Good And they will no Respect of Persons find With a Just Master and Impartial Mind To all Distinctions but of Merit Blind Such Vile Examples and such ill-bred Fools You must not Follow in well-govern'd Schools For fear of such Correction as the Wise Have thought Convenient to punish Vice You must not Buy nor Sell nor give one Cross Nor Mony Lend nor Change nor Things Ingross To reap Advantage by Another's Loss Mony 's the Root of Evil and Disgrace And makes fond Boys Extravagantly Base But what Ingenuous Education brings Are gen'rous and Unmercenary Things Rude Brawling Giggling and wild Noise decline Banish'd to Frantick Bedlam's Discipline Loud Laughter Scoffing and Reproach forsake They breed Ill Blood and Mad Distraction make Lewd Quarrels little Lyes and Pilf'ring Crimes Of wicked Boys to Newgate sent betimes Condemn for fatal Qualities portend Some growing Mischief or some Dismal End Your Common Chat must always be secure From Language that 's Immodest or Impure Speak not one Word that 's Smutty or Prophane But filthy Talk and Vile Discourse refrain May Virtue Teint or Reputation Stain Observ't as certain as you draw your Breath That ev'ry Tongue has Pow'r of Life and Death Of Monstrous Faults and Horrid Sins beware In Conversation neither Curse nor Swear For 't is a Foul Abominable Vice To give Ill Language to your Enemies And with Reproachful Words to treat your Friends Is the Ingratitude of Human Fiends But to Prophane the Sacred Name of GOD Can never Mercy find nor ' scape the Rod. Remember this unalterable Rule To keep the Faithful Secrets of the School For Treachery and Telling Tales abroad Incur Displeasure of the Angry Rod. Therefore Good Boys observe where'er you go Great Government and Manly Conduct show Your Books and all your Things in Order keep By Care this Satisfaction you will reap No Apprehensions can disturb your Sleep For when the bus'ness of the School you 've done You 'll go to Bed with Recreation And Rise again both unconcern'd and Gay For th' Exercises of the coming Day In short you must consult your Master's Ease And for your Life do nothing may displease Provoke his Anger or disturb his Peace London Printed by J. Rawlins for JOHN PLACE at Furnivals-Inn-gate in Holborn MDCC Price 3 d.