He is greedy after victuals but he is unwilling to work he is sottishly ignorant of all the offices of a Servant I never knew any memory like his he is forgetful of all my commands he sometimes seems doubtful in mind whether or no he should presently forsake mine house because of the heaviness of his labour he is guilty of all vices which make him unfit for Service For my part I think he is the most stupid of all blockheads I have one young man that I keep whom it hath pleased God to deprive of understanding but I think this last fellow is the more unprofitable to me of the two Many â—ruit creatures are more docible than him by many â—egrees he is not only void of all good but full of wickedness and vice worthy of stripes every hour unworthy of praise yea even of life he is of kin to a beast he is fit for the work of a beast not of a man It is hard for me to express his qualities I have resolved to banish him from mine house lest my other Servants should grow like him Be pleased to pardon my tedious lines about so ill a Subject and not to think that I accuse Sir your endeavours you were ignorant I without doubt persuade my self of his faults for you wrote to me that you had heard him commended I only blame mine own success But as for you I have never the less cause to assert my self Your obliged Servant T. P. EPISTLE II. Honoured Father I Cannot but acknowledg that it is my part to write to you as often as I can to leave other less necessary things and to prefer my duty to you before them 'T is the duty of Children to please their Parents and you have often told me how much you are pleased to receive Letters from me Ungrateful I that do not greedily embrace and zealously Answer the love of so good a Father 'T is a Father's part to love if I should say you had done your part those words were too feeble to express your constant affection but I blush to think how justly you may blame me for ingratitude for neglecting my duty You have been a Father but I have not been a Son I have the greatest reason to value your love at a great rate but Boys that displease their Parents like me are not to be esteemed Yet honoured Sir after all this my Confession and Accusation of my self let me beg that you would please to take in good part this Letter as a token of mine Obedience I have gratis all that I enjoy yet I presume to offer my Pepper-corn as my acknowledgment and oftner than once a year because I am daily receiving Condemn me not for my former neglect though I deserve it acquit me from my deserved punishment Mine own thoughts accuse me of most hainous Crimes for what is more hainous than folly and ingratitude I must accuse my self of both but I hope you cannot but pity me and have compassion on mine ignorance I remember your former goodness which pardoned great Crimes and the remembrance thereof makes me now hope to obtain your favourable pardon which I again earnestly entreat if I obtain that this Letter hath done its office and none shall be more happy than Sir Your Obedient Son J. M. EPISTLE III. Dearest Brother I Have now been three weeks in the Countrey and Divine Providence hath made my journey safe and prosperous I have fully accomplished the business which I had to do for you an account of which I know will be grateful to you I will therefore send you a Letter about that business the next week At present I only acquaint you in general That it is done and add thereto the great kindness that I received of my former Master when I went to see him at York if I had done nothing else but visited him I should have thought my journey had profited me enough The sight of him delighted me very much he is certainly a most excellent man I know none that may be compared with him he is a man of so great learning and godliness I do not love Comparisons but I never found any man that could Equalize himself to him One may compare him to Plato for his Temperance and Moderation You will perhaps ask what he gave me when I was at his House but I went not to receive any thing of him he gave me some good admonitions a gift which pleased me better than Gold or Silver and besides he return'd me a Book which I left there laft year He bad me at all times when I have need to ask Counsel of him I promised him I would obey his advice if I should not please him as far as I can I were mine own enemy and ungrateful to him having received so many kindnesses from him I will love him and honour him as long as I live Dearest Brother I could not but write these things to you but having used boldness enough already I will not try your Patience too much lest you should complain as you use to do of the tediousness of the Letters you receive from Your affectionate Brother B. J. EPISTLE IV. SIR YOur unwearied questionings after many refusals seem to intimate that you think me unconstant but I scorn such a mind That thing which you desire to know was committed to me as a secret by your Uncle if to reveal it would do you good yet after I had promised him secrecy your utmost diligence should never extort it from me but to disclose this would not help but hurt you Your advantage only was the Argument which persuaded your Uncle to command me secrecy He charged me to tell no body Should I now become a tatler he would never believe me more and would have just reason to be angry with me Leave urging me therefore and never write to me about it any more For know I am of a more generous spirit than to betray innocent secrets The more you attempt the more unmovable I shall be Our Master I remember used to threaten us with his severest anger if we searched into the secrets of others It is no less an honour to any one not to ask than to another to conceal I prefer that Friend that asketh little before him that would fain know every thing It would be a praise to you if you were content to be ignorant Be pleased therefore to vindicate your own honour and to satisfie me by your future silence for a thousand new persuasions shall never extort that which it will do you no good to know from Your Friend as far as I honourably may E. C. DIALOGUE VIII Master and Boy B. SIR that Boy kickt me with his foot M. What injury did you do to him B. I did but touch him with my Glove M. You may think you did not hurt him but none can tell the effect of a blow but he that feels it B. He was not at all hurt by my blow but
sorry when my Father took him Apprentice Anth. Did you not say he was well thought of Mar. I knew one thing of him which made me doubt concerning him He was my School-fellow and was very idle and stubborn in School he never had my Master's love Anth. It is then no wonder that he is now wicked Those that are Rebels in the School are Knaves in the Shop or Fools A perverse and idle School-boy seldom becomes a good Servant He is wise that being to chuse an Apprentice consulteth the School-master more than the Parents DIALOGUE VI. Master and Servant MAst Wilt thou ne're become wholly good Harry Serv. You use to say None is perfect Sir Mast Dost thou cavil at my words I mean Wilt thou never wholly lay aside thy sloth Serv. I will endeavour Sir to please you always for the future Mast I wish I might believe thee Thou seemest sometimes a Boy of most tender Spirit but soon after all hopes of thee vanisheth Thou art like a man that I have heard of that never knew his own mind if he had determined one thing one moment he changed his resolution in the next his thoughts were not his own I never knew but two boys like thee Thomas Fallacio and William Futurio two Neighbours Apprentices the one I think is as bad the other somewhat worse than thy self I am sorry thou shouldest give me cause to say so of thee Serv. I repent Sir that I am one of that number but I will first amend that they may imitate me Mast Be as good as thy word if thou be as thou hast a-great while been called idle thou shalt be hereafter esteemed the best All the Neghbourhood will commend thee But I fear thou wilt sleep to morrow morning void of care I wish God may give thee help to be more faithful Serv. It is expedient for me to be industrious Sir and I will be Mast Thou wilt reap the benefit of thine industry when thou comest to Mans-Estate the more careful and diligent thou art in my business the fitter thou wilt be for thine own I exhort thee as well for thine advantage as mine Serv. I most readily believe you Sir I thank you Sir for your kind admonitions DIALOGUE VII Master and Scholar MAst Two days ago thou desiredst of me a Repetition of some instructions of mine I now demand of thee attention to a few more which I would fain have fastened in thy mind That thou mayst be ignorant of nothing that may tend to thy good S. most readily honoured Master will I attend for I firmly-believe that you aim at my good M. Thou maist believe but if not I my self am assured that out of a conscientious care for thee I speak and act all things And therefore together with the former remember these documents also First Therefore be of a Catholick Spirit love all the World love thy Friends because they deserve it love thine Enemies because Christ commandeth it Requite not injuries with injuries but return good for evil Abhor revenge it was honourable sometimes among Heathens but it is most uncomely for a Christian Secondly Think no evil when thou feelest evil thoughts arising within thy mind divert thy meditation immediately to something of good Contraries drive out one another Thirdly Learn good of every one observe the virtues of good Examples to imitate them observe the vices of bad Examples to avoid them Fourthly If thou knowest thy School-fellow Guilty of a Crime admonish him privately and tell me not of him for I delight not in punishing try if thou canst by thy Arguments reform him thou shalt then do a blessed work but if he hearken not to thee make me acquainted lest thy Friend be ruined It is no part of friendship to conceal deadly vices thou shalt merit his greatest love by revealing them and thô he a wicked Boy curse thee God shall bless thee Yet I would by no means have thee be a tell-tale or common accuser Never discover but when there is necessity and the safety of a Boy requires it Fifthly Hope not for safety in sin because most men go that way companions will not make the flames of Hell the cooler the more fuel the hotter the flame will be Sixthly Abuse not the Sabbath nor imploy it either upon thy School-business for I had rather that were never done than thou shalt lay out that day upon it or upon recreations It is the Lord's Day not thine own worship God on that day so shall he bless thee all the week after Those that work in Gods Time shall lose their labour and those that play in it shall repent of their sport Seventhly Never use the Name of God irreverently he is a jealous God Be afraid to mention his Name without a mental adoration Eighthly Jeer not others upon any occasion if they be foolish God not themselves denied them understanding if they be vicious thou oughtest to pity them not to revile them if deformed God framed their bodies and wilt thou scorn his workmanship Art thou wiser than the Creator If poor Poverty was designed for a motive to Charity not to contempt thou canst not see what riches they have within especially despise not thy aged Parents If they be come to their second Childhood and be not so wise as formerly they are yet thy Parents thy duty is not diminished Ninthly If Providence promote thee to riches or honours be not proud God giveth thee those things for other ends if thou abuse them he will take them away Tenthly Take not any thing that is thy Parents without their leave nothing is thine till it be given thee He that Steals is never the less a Thief because he Robs but his Father or Mother Eleventhly Be always content Childrens will is limited murmur not against thy Parents against thy Master much less against God Twelfthly Never talk of those things that concern thee not be not a busie-body Observe all these things most devoutly the sum of all which is Obedience for that one word comprehendeth the whole duty of a Child towards Parents towards Master and towards God let thâ—â— little word be engraven upon thine heart and 〈◊〉 thou observe it when thou art a man thou wilt be useful in the Commonwealth and Loyal to thy Prince S. You have given me Sir a compendium of my duty I am by nature more forward to evil than to good how shall I conquer that inclination M. God can overcome all difficulties rely upon him and he shall give thee strength EPISTLE I. Sir I Were ungrateful if I should not return you the greatest thanks for your readiness to do me good But actions do not always succeed according to the design of the agent I am sorry I have cause to complain of the Servant you sent me last week I am scarce at leisure to write what a bad disposition he is of I will only mention some few of his Features by them you may conjecture of the rest
quiet death but he that is mindful of past wickedness feareth eternity The pleasures of sin then yield no refreshment the expectation of future torment is dreadful to a guilty soul which despised Heaven before and shall lose it irreparably Verbs Personals governing a Genitive Reg. 1. SUm genitivum postulat c. The Verb Sum when it betokens the part duty property or possession requires the Noun following to be put in the Genitive Case 1. The Earth is the Lord's 2. 'T is the duty of children to observe instruction 3. 'T is the part of fools to laugh always 4. 'T is the wise-man's property to hold-his-peace 5. 'T is the part of Kings to defend their Subjects it is the duty of Subjects to be obedient to Kings The world would perish without Government and Order Exc. 1. Excipiuntur hi Nominativi meum c. 1. If the English of any of the Pronoun possessives come after Sum without a Substantive coming after them such Pronoun must not be the Genitive Case but must agree in Case Gender and Number with the Nominative Case to the Verb. 1. That Paper was mine but now it is my brother's 2. The Kingdom of Heaven is theirs that are poor in spirit it shall be ours if we observe God's holy Commandments let us be mindful of our duty ready to every good work let us live soberly righteously and godly Exc. 2. At hic subintelligi videtur officium c. 2. If with the English of the Pronoun possessive be joined the word duty part or property the Pronoun must be the Nominative Case and always the Neuter Gender 1. It is thy duty to do whatsoever thy Father commandeth 2. It is every-ones part to look to himself The world is full of Enemies and all men have need of caution It is our part to exercise the greatest prudence Other Pronouns as Relatives Interrogatives compound Pronouns c. have the Construction of Nouns i. e. are put in the Genitive Case 1. Let us love God whose we are 2. It is not any ones place to reprove others but theirs that are unblameable Note Sometimes the English of a Substantive which ought to be the Genitive Case governed of Sum may be turned into an Adjective derived of the Substantive e. g. It is the part of a Woman muliebre est or mulieris It is the part of a man virile est or viri Reg. 2. Verba aestimandi Genitivo gaudet 2. Verbs of valuing estceming or making account of require a Genitive Case of that word which betokens the price or value of the thing and which tells us at what rate or how much 1. Those value the honour of God at nothing that call themselves Christians and defire to be accounted Saints but in-the-mean-while are like Beasts and are given to all vices 2. Riches are esteemed little when men see better things The light of the Sun dimmeth the lesser shining of a Candle 3. I value not him a rush that is a Friend to every body Exc. Aestimo vel Genitivum c. 2. But the Verb Aestimo it self will have either a Genitive or an Ablative of the value 1. I have a Horse that I value at forty pound 2. I esteem a faithful Friend at a great price Reg. 3. Verba accusandi damnandi c. 3. Verbs of accasing condemning blaming admsnishing acquitting or clearing will have a Genitive of the crime or thing which crime hath commonly of for er from before it in the English 1. One Boy accuseth another of idleness the Master heareth their tales but punisheth only those whom he thinketh guilty and worthy of punishment 2. The Master's praise maketh some Boys diligent it moveth them greatly sometimes when he passeth by faults his clemency perswadeth them to love him and to observe his laws which are good for them Kindly to warn ingenious minds of their faults frequently reduceth them to obedience without severity 3. When a murderer obtaineth a pardon he escapeth the Gallows but he is not cleared from guilt but Saints receiving remission of sins become guiltless in the sight of God as if they had not sinned The blood of Christ washeth defiled Souls Exc. 1. Vertitur hic Genitivus c. Sometimes the Crime is put in the ablative Case sometimes with but usually without a Preposition Exc. 2. Uterque Nullus Alter Neuter c. If the English of any of these words viz. Uterque nullus alter neuter alius ambo or of an adjective of the Superlative degree which hath no Substantive with it come after Verbs of accusing c. the Latin of those words must never be in any other but the ablative Case 1. Our Man-servant was accused of theft and of drunkenness but he denied whiles in the mean time he was guilty of both and his lying clear'd him of neither 2. A guilty conscience hath no need of Witnesses it accuseth it self of most hainous things the man is miserable whom Conscience condemneth 3. Q. Of what crime art thou convicted A. Of none 4. Q. Of what duty did our Master admonish our Form when I was absent Did he admonish of diligence about our Studies or of Godliness A. Of both Reg. 4. Satago misereor miseresco c. And Verbs of remembring and forgetting require the Noun following to be the Genitive Case of the person or thing pitied remembred or forgotten 1. I pity my Brother I pity his folly for he hath wasted all the Portion which my Father left and now he begs from dore to dore 2. I remember the report that I heard but I do not regard it he that feareth misery before that it come forgetteth his own manhood and becometh like a Child 3. A Judge whose Sentence accuseth him of injustice is unprofitable to his Countrey A just Judge remembreth mercy and justice together he never sorgetteth right and law but never condemneth the innocent Note 1. Reminiscor obliviscor Nemini c. are read also with an accusative after them Note 2. Nemini sometimes signifies to make mention of and hath then an Ablative after it with the Preposion de Reg. 5. Potior aut Genitivo aut Ablativo c. 5. Potior to obtain or get Possession of governs either an Ablative or a Genitive 1. A Scholar that obtaineth his Master's favour is more happy than he that is idle who loseth his honour wasteth his time and continueth a blockhead tho play be pleasant to him a little while 2. He that remembreth instructions getteth profit he that forgetteth them obtaineth no advantage It is the duty of Boys to attend whilest Masters teach labour spent in vain wearieth the most industrious and strongest workman but work succeeding according to expectation delighteth Verbs Personals governing a Dative Case Reg. 1. OMnia Verba acquisitivè posita c. All Verbs govern a Dative Case after them of the Noun which hath to or for before it e. g. 1. He is of a low and ignoble spirit that only lives for himself and
Religion Rule 6. Domus an house or home and Rus the Countrey have in all respects the construction of proper names of Cities and Towns as to their cases The Construction of Verbs Impersonal 1. VErbs Impersonal have never any Nominative case before them nor an Accusative before their Infinitive 2. Not onely Verbs which have it before them in the English are Latined by Impersonals but when boys find I thou he c. the signs of Verbs personals they will sometimes find such Latin for the Verb as is only of the Third Person which Latin is an Impersonal Verb. Reg. 1. Haec tria Impersonalia c. 1. Three Impersonals viz. interest refert and est which is sometimes an Impersonal require a Genitive case after them of the Noun following except me thee him us you or whom come after the English of them and those Particles must be rendred by the ablative case of the Pronoun Possessive 1. It much concerneth boys to avoid evil company as they would beware of the Plague They are more hurtful to the mind than the most contagious Disease to the body Wicked and prophane Play-fellows are tempters which do the Devil's work they sometimes change a boy of an honest mind into a vile Rebel He that converseth with evil boys at length becomes like them he leaveth his care to please the Master he giveth over his endeavouring to serve God and his obeying his Parents They teach him Sabbath-breaking Swearing Lying and all Vice which it will be difficult to unteach him and unless God bless some instructions and by Divine power alter him his life being wasted in serving sin he perisheth for ever 2. It concerneth me and all men to look to our selves the world is full of Knaves and Knavery It is hard to be known and he is hard to be found that is fit to be trusted Obs Adjiciuntur illi Genitivi tanti c. Those Impersonals beside a Genitive case of the person whom have also another Genitive of the word betokening the Degree 1. The greatest caution is to be used in the presence of Boys Masters must behave themselves very warily lest Scholars learn evil of them and it greatly concerneth boys to imitate the Masters virtue 2. It little mattereth whether he that instructeth be great it iâ—sufficient if he be good 3. It little matters how-much money a man have if he be honest honesty is worth loads of treasure Reg. 2. In Dativum feruntur haec Impersonalia c. 2. Accidit certum est contingit constat confert competit placet dolet expedit evenit liquet libet nocet obest prodest praestat sufficit vacat and in general all Impersonals which have the sign to or for after them require a Dative case 1. If God please Physick shall profit a man but God with-holding his blessing all endeavours are vain God useth Physicians as his servants but unless God help them and their sick person they become unprofitable he tempteth God that neglecteth using endeavours of men but it best agreeth with Religion to joyn Prayer with Physick God is always at leisure to do good to those that ask 2. It greatly concerns those that are desirous to enjoy inward peace to believe the omnipotency of God it is manifest to the eyes of the Servants of God that he rules the world and trust in God banisheth all fear from the heart Feebleness of mind is the misery of those that distrust Divine Power and Goodness Reg. 3. Haec impersonalia accusandi c. Reg. His verò attinet pertinet c. Rule 3. Juvat decet and the Compounds of them as also delectat and oportet require an accusative case without a Preposition attinet pertinet spectat an accusative with ad 1. It behoveth men of little wisdom to hold their peace a fool silent seemeth wise 2. The Tongue is the Author of much evil it therefore becometh a wise man to restrain his own Tongue with the Bridle of Reason it delighteth him to laugh at the folly of Pratlers it belongeth to younger men especially to sit silent they may observe what others speak and it may be lawful for them to break silence when they can produce something worthy of hearing which none else thought on he that speaketh warily is prised highly by the wise Reg. 4. His Impersonalibus subjicitur c. Rule 4. Paenitet taedet pudet piget Verbs Impersonal require an accusative case of the word immediately next them which accusative in the English seems as if it were the Nominative case to the Verb and beside that a Genitive case of the word following which hath of for or as before it also miseret miserescit an accusative of the person pitying a Genitive of the thing or person pitied e. g. 1. Good men are weary of their lives among the wicked they pity their madness they are grieved at their folly whilest in the mean time sinners are not ashamed of their vices nor do they repent of them till God open their eyes 2. Good men only truly repent of their sins Hypocrites repentance is but pretended but they are of most base minds that repent of their good deeds We ought not to boast of any Actions we must give God the Glory who giveth us Power to perform them yet we must do good with all our might 3. It is worthy to be observed how flexible the minds of Boys are they scarcely continue two days in the same thoughts sometimes they keep not the same mind two hours when the Master layeth upon them a new command they seem to rejoice and are very forward to obey it for-the-present but they soon forget their duty or grow slack in performing it when by their unconstant Parents they are removed from one School to another they admire their new Master whom before-that they despised and laughed at and they speak-against their former Master whom the day before they seemed to prefer before all the World New and sudden things please Boys but they are soon weary of every thing that Boy is praise-worthy that in his tender years beginneth to shew presages of future constancy and those men are to be scorned that in elder years are like Children for unconstancy Manly Boys are to be beloved childish men to be slighted 4. The Master pitieth the Scholars ignorance he loveth the Scholar better than the Scholar loveth himself which he will not now believe but he will believe it hereafter Obs Nonnulla Impersonalia remigrant c. Most Impersonals are only the third person singular or Personals which Personals are themselves also in use as decet from deceo pudet from pudeo accidit from accido placet from placeo but paenitet taedet and some others have no Personals 1. When God pleaseth he turneth evils into the temporal good of those that please him it becometh not good men to be angry with Providence contentedness becometh Christians 2. It is certain that all things shall conduce to the benefit
must be put in the Genitive Case A comely Coat reacheth from the middle of the Legs up to the Shoulders For the various signification of Prepositions Boys may consult for their Information the Westminster Introduction where their Cases are likewise largely discoursed Of Interjections HEU Rule 1. an Interjection of exclaiming may have after it either a Nominative or an Accusative Case ah and proh rather an Accusative 1. Oh! the wickedness of these men that thirst after the Blood of their Neighbours men of such barbarous Cruelty ought to be thrust out into the Fields among the Beasts whom they are like except that they exceed them in bloodiness Ah! the horrid murthers that some have committed 2. There is not one Atheist in Hell those that in this World laughed at all serious things when they come to Eternity cry out Alas my folly alas my ignorance and madness oh the dismal effects which unbelief produceth Heretofore I thought Hell was a Dream but now I find I my self only dreamed and now that I am awakened I begin to know and to exercise my Senses too late Rule 2. Hei and vae require a Dative Case after them Wo be to those that resist the Almighty God He is the surest Friend but the sharpest Enemy his love is sweet but his wrath is bitter his favour is Heaven but his frowns are Hell Wo wo to all that do not please him Those that mock at his threatnings shall tremble at the execution of them The end of the Sentences which are fitted as Examples to the Grammar-Rules Additional Notes 1. IN making Latin Boys are apt to be greatly puzled and at a loss to know when that is a Relative and ought to be rendred by qui and when it is a Conjunction to be Latined by quod or ut Let them therefore for their help in that difficulty observe these following Notes viz. 1. It is neither a Relative nor a Conjunction when it stands the first word after any Point or Stop greater than a Comma as after a Colon Semi-colon or Period but in such places it is to be rendred by the Pronoun demonstrative iste That is always a Relative when it may he turned into which which must be tried in reading over the English Sentence wherein it is and judging warily how the Sense would bear it If it cannot be altered salvo sensu it is a Conjunction 3. There is always between the Conjunction that and the Verb a Nominative Case to the Verb but between that the Relative and the Verb standeth no Nominative Case except the Relative be not the Nominative Case but that is usually the Nominative Case to the Verb it self 4. The Conjunction that commonly comes next after a Verb which signifies speaking knowing finding hearing or some such like English 5. It is neither a Conjunction nor a Relative when there followeth immediately after it a Substantive which must be put into some oblique Case to be governed of or to follow the Verb next foregoing that In such Case it must be rendred by the Pronoun Demonstrative iste e. g. 1. All men despise that man that boasteth of his own Exploits That man whose Acts Fame doth magnifie retaineth his Honour without diminishing even after his Death but whosoever praiseth himself bewrayeth Vanity All men will think that he attributeth too much to himself Deserve praise of others but still retain an humble mind 2. That man was of a base mind that having resolved to get himself a Name studied to execute some monstrous Villany for the sake of which men might talk of him he chose to be famous for impiety rather than that his Name should be buried in oblivion But the Emperour in whose Land the Wretch dwelt frustrated him of his purpose by forbidding his Name to be mentioned in the History tho' the Fact was chronicled 2. That a Relative is sometimes understood in the English and must be exprest in Latin by making qui for it And then is it understood when in a Sentence there wanteth either a Nominative case to the Verb or an Accusative Case to follow the Verb which cannot be supplied from any other word in the Sentence e. g. There is none except a fool will sell his Inheritance that his Father left him for nothing There is none except a very indigent man will sell his Inheritance at all An Estate which hath descended from Father to Son ought to be transmitted to Posterity There is nothing Prodigality loves so well as to spend lavishly the fruits of the Predecessors Industry there is nothing a wise man desireth more than that his Children enriched by him may bless him after his death God performeth the Promises he hath made to industrious men 3. It is a usual thing for Boys to err in rendring the English of the Present Tense Passive by making it by the Participle of the Preter Tense with Sum es est which must always be carefully avoided because that Participle with est maketh up all the Preter Tenses which must be confounded with the Present e. g. He is praised that is of humble behaviour towards all men courtesie hath a wonderful effect the proud man is abhorred the meek are honourable Obs In such cases as these or in any other of like nature where Boys are apt by reason of the English ambiguity to translate wrong it may not be altogether unprofitable for them to make the Expression in which the Ambiguity is both ways h. e. First right according to the Caution and afterwards as they would or are wont to make it but within a Parenthesis with non before it 4. Boys generally conclude that when they have may would might should the Verb must be of the Potential Mood according to the signs mentioned in their Accidence to which also ought is there added and can but not rightly But sometimes those are not meerly signs but must be made by a distinct Verb. And that is when the seeming sign betokens something of duty lawfulness or earnestness of desire When they have an Emphasis in them otherwise when they intimate nothing Emphatical they are only signs of particular Tenses of their Verbs e. g. 1. Boys may play when the Master hath given leave but without leave they may not lotter one hour Idle Boys would fain escape doing their duty they would rejoyce if they might play whole weeks 2. Children should willingly obey their Parents but for the most part they are Rebellious Obedience is a lovely Sacrifice in the sight of God whom all should Study to please 3. If Children should govern themselves to what misery would they bring themselves yet they are seldom content with the most favourable Government they have a desire either to change or to be quite left to their own will Their unripe Reason is like Phaeton ' 's pride who would govern a Chariot which was beyond his strength Let them use Patience he that cannot obey well will never command right 5.
fain be richer 31. For before a Verb with its Nominative Case must always be made by nam or enim Sometimes it is the same with as and must be then rendred by in with an Accusative before the names of Diseases by contra before other Substantives by pro. 32. Hither with the before it is always an Adjective and must be rendred by citerior made to agree with its Substantive which always stands next after it When it betokens place by huc 33. How before Adjectives and Adverbs derived of Adjectives must not be made by quomodo but by quam How with much and a Comparative Degree by quantò 34. But if must be rendred by sin but if not by sin minus 35. Not is omitted after the Verb caveo e g. 1. It becometh children to pull off their Hats when they meet those to whom reverence is due from them For by uncovering their heads and bending their bodies they shew an humble and obedient mind Those Parents are to be blamed that teach not civility But how much more ignorant are they that think it a sin to use any respectful behaviour and forbid their Children strictly to salute any man How clownish are those Children that are educated by such Parents 2. Take heed thou offend not thy Parents But if thou hast done any thing worthy of their anger be sorry for thy crime beg their pardon upon thy bended knees for a token of thy repentance If thou do so they will perhaps pardon thee but if not thou must expect punishment 3. Sometimes warm things are good for the Tooth-ach and sometimes cold things But sometimes no medicine can cure the pain Who would think the aking of so small a Bone should produce so grievous a torment 4. If thou stand on the hither side of a Brook which hath a narrow Bridge and seest thy superior on the farther side by-no-means pass over till he have first passed Give place in all places to those that excel thee 36. If let stand before a Verb of the first Person Singular the Verb must be made of the Subjunctive Mood 37. Like is not always an Adjective but sometimes a Verb viz. when it hath a person before it in the English when next after a Verb similiter 38. Less with a Substantive with which it may agree is to be made by minor with a Verb or no nothing much little by minus an Adverb 39. Much with a Substantive is to be made by multus with a Verb by magnopere before Comparatives and Superlatives by longè or if how be joyned with much by quanto if so tanto 40. More for rather is made by magis for hereafter by posthà c The more in the former part of a Sentence by quò in the latter part answering to the former by eo e. g. 1. Let a Boy of ingenious mind be commended and he will study the more diligently The more he is praised the more he coveteth further commendation Let me teach those Boys that are of tender disposition and my labour shall be easie but naughty Boys are always mingled among the good No Teacher is free from vexation 2. Idle Boys like careless Masters but Parents chuse those that are industrious and vertuous that their Children may be like them Parents care is less when the Masters care is certain 3. The Man provoketh less that knoweth not his duty than he that neglecteth wilfully Much knowledg rendreth a Man unexcusable How much more safe is he that is invincibly ignorant than he that is unmoveably obstinate 4. Many Men see sometimes the folly of vice and say to themselves I will never more commit that wickedness but they forget their purposes they strive more to find out occasions of sin than to avoid them 41. Most with a Substantive coming immediately after it is made by plerique 42. Neither when it relates to two things spoken before is made by Neuter when nor answereth it it is made by nec 43. Never with the before a Comparative is rendred by nihilo 44. Of after a Substantive and before mine thine ours yours his and theirs is omitted and that word which comes after of in the English made in the Latin to agree with the Substantive which went before of 45. Over after a Verb is a sign only of the Dative Case and must have no Latin word made for it e. g. 2. Most Authors which Boys read have some hurtful things in them but they are not therefore to be rejected Wholsom Herbs grow among poysonous ones and yet are never the worse Good Boys neither regard nor delight in those things which are unseemly 2. A Friend of mine lost his honour the same day in which a Friend ef yours was created Earl But the conditions of human things are uncertain God ruleth the World To some he giveth both pleasure and profit to others he vouchsafeth neither 46. Self or selves must be rendred either by ipse or by adding met to the Pronoun foregoing except in the Pronoun se 47. Since for seeing-that is rendred by cum or quandoquidem for from or after by a ab or ex For ago by abhinc in other Cases ex quo 48. Such before a Substantive by talis or ejusmodi when an Adjective comes next it by tam adeo 49. That after same is rendred by qui or ac after words of fear in affirmative Speeches by ne if not be added by ut or nè non e. g. 1. He is best that thinketh himself worst Since those that think themselves good are fuller of Pride than of Piety He that considereth his own past life will find that he he hath always been an offender since he was capable of acting 2. Who can say I have not disobeyed God since my Youth Who would be guilty of such Pride Who dare speak such a bold word The best of men sinneth every day and what preventeth that God doth not punish the same moment that man offendeth 3. I fear that those Children will become evil men that have seen evil Examples of Paronts I fear that they will not have wisdom to shun their parents Vices 50. The before any Comparative is made by quò and answered by eo 51. Till before a Noun is made by usque ad before a Verb with its Nominative Case by donec 52. Together after words of time is rendred by per set before the word of time In company at the same time or place by simul 53. So for also is rendred by etiam before an Adjective or Adverb by nimts nimium 54. Very before an Adjective or Adverb is only a sign of the Superlative Degree or may be made by valde before a Substantive by merus e. g. 1. The more learned a man is he either is or ought to be the more humble he that is proud of his wisdom is indeed a very fool 2. That is a very excellent Rule which Christ our Saviour hath given us to observe viz. Do to others as