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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

the best authoritie learning and iudgement that I could obtaine this fauour of haue intreated them to censure all things frankely and to direct vs wherein they found or thought vs defectiue to confirme and encourage vs wherein we proceeded in a right course Neither haue I conferred with any louing friend hereof so farre as I remember who hath not approued of the course and wished all good successe to this my trauell So that I haue not posted it forward but hasted slowly and vsed so farre as God hath granted me opportuniy all meanes of due preparation and of mature deliberation thus enquiring of as I said and conferring with so many of the best experienced as either my calling or greatnesse of the charges in trauell would permit And moreouer before I published any thing hereof in print I sent some draughts vnto sundry learned for their helpe and direction though not to the hundredth man to whom I desired For that I was neither able to get copies enow written nor to procure them written truly much lesse to be at the charge to send thē abroad into all parts to many who I know would willingly haue laid to their hands and added their experiments Therefore herein also in steed of sending any moe written copies abroad I after a time by the coūsell of some faithfull and iudicious welwillers to this worke thought it best to follow that worthy President of most happy labours Maister Perkins who when he was in hand with his Probleme being aduised to send some copies first to his learned freinds answered that he could not get copies enow written though he procured some writtē forth and by good scholars yet they were so defectiue as that he could not well send thē And for that cause he would print some few of them first which might go forth to the view of the world and so he might heare the common censure of all and receiue the helpe of his freinds and then reforme accordingly Thus did I aduenture to send forth the former draught of my Grāmar Schoole with some other parts belonging to the same to the publique view of all that I might the sooner heare and receiue the free censures and better directions of all louing freinds and welwillers vnto this worke so to be forthwith trying reforming and supplying like as I haue continued vntill this day In the whole worke as I promised not any thing but my trauell which I haue striuen to performe with all the poore ability which the Lord hath vouchsafed me so I take nothing to my selfe but onely the wants and errours The rest is his who hath giuen this desire and prolonged my life granted me vnderstanding strength and opportunitie to bring it thus farre forward What directions or experiences herein I haue receiued from others as yet or lately liuing I would haue set downe with their names adioyned like as I haue done of some which I know might haue brought much credit to the worke for the authority of sundry of them and thereby euerie one of them haue had their due but that they did not thinke it meete desiring to be concealed What I haue gathered out of the writings of the chiefe learned who haue reuiued learning in this last age as Sturmius Melanchton Erasmus others either shortly set downe or plainly poynted at in them I haue omitted likewise to mētion particularly not any way to wrong or detract from them but partly for that I did not note the places at my reading of them and moreouer for that I thought that labour more troublesome then profitable to the Reader Neither take I vpon me any way to prescribe to the meanest knowing my self so far inferiour to the greatest part but do begin to thinke more and more of this weightie calling as Paul did of the sacred Ministerie and to breake out into that his admiration who is sufficient for these things who is meete to haue the treasure both of Church and Common-wealth with the hopes of all posteritie committed vnto him and much more to prescribe perpetuall rules in this behalfe Much lesse do I pre●ume to teach them of most excellent gifts but as a poore fellow labourer for the common good and a willing learner of all I do humbly desire the iudgement and helpe of all the chiefe learned both for their cause who wish this and for the vniuersall benefit of the present age and of all posteritie That I may see still both what they approue in the courses set downe also what they disallow and likewise vpon what grounds what may be bettered what is yet wanting and what is superfluous Thus is my hearts desire to trauel in it still according as I haue begun vntill the Lord shall accomplish the whole worke which although it should be seuen yeares more yea many moe before yet the Lord prolonging my dayes I shall euer increase in reioycing in my vndoubted assurance of the rich blessing which God will giue vnto it thinke all my labour most happily spent But herein let not any man expect from me great matters in a lofty kind of verse or prose or eminency in declamations orations or the like this I leaue to our worthy renowned schooles of Westminster Eaton Winchester and the rest both in London elsewhere and to our Schoolemaisters of chiefe fame whose breeding imployment in schooles hath bin accordingly and who haue ancient scholars long exercised in these kinds Cōcerning whom I am so far off frō enuying any excellent learning in them that I wish all others partakers of the like in their kind And for my selfe I content me with this mercie from the Lord and blesse him for it that I haue trauelled chiefly for our meaner ruder schooles and that he hath vouchsafed me this fauour to bring my worke so farre forward as to helpe to direct hitherto according to the things mentioned in the Contents Yet this I humbly desire of all such of principall note for education gifts and experience to further vs with their better directions in all these exercises and the rest now God hauing so accomplished my desire for the first foundation and let me see his blessing vpon the little on s I will labour to follow them in what I am too short as fast as his goodnesse shall enable vntill I shall likewise find by experience wherein that excellency and comfort of theirs doth consist and come as neare vnto them as I can Though therein Cum in primis non liceat in secundis tertijsve consistere pulchrum erit For the length of the worke in the Grammar schoole I haue in many things contracted very much in this edition And for those things wherein I may seeme ouer tedious as namely in the first entrance of children in teaching Accidence and Grammar also for construing parsing and making Latine I would haue all consider how therein I haue contended to direct the carefull Maister to incite both

all my louing brethren to the full perfecting of that which hath bene by his goodnesse brought thus far forward towards the same Why should we suffer the industrie of the enemies to be a condemnation to vs for omitting our opportunities of accomplishing any seruice which may concerne the glory of our God the welfare of this people and the perpetuall benefit of this our deare nation when they watch all occasions not onely to hinder whatsoeuer good they can amongst vs but to put out for euer the candle of Israell When as they will toyle day and night with the perill of their liues to vndermine and blow vp our royall King and Prince our Nobles and worthies with all our glorie at once thereby to make an easier passage to their most bloudie and accursed massakers to murder all who beare anie loue to Christs Gospell yea to destroy vtterly all the people of the Lord euen through the whole world if it were possible as their furious rage doth at this day proclaime though with the endlesse destruction of themselues both soules and bodies and euen of their natiue countrey their mother which bred them Notwithstanding I haue not rashly attempted to enter into this so great a worke but I hope that I may truly say that the Lord our louing God who hath holpen me hitherto hath called me vnto it And this hath he done partly enforcing me by necessitie to seeke out the easiest speediest and best meanes to manage this my calling and wherby I might do most good in my place to be thereby in some sort answerable to the same Partly by giuing me a confident assurance euen from the beginning of this my trauell what a benefite might come to all sorts by the read●est courses once found out and more also in this that I haue seemed to my selfe by his goodnesse to haue from time to time gained euer somewhat by my search haue withall obserued how much some few schooles haue excelled others chiefly through the better courses which they haue followed Partly by vouchsafing me strength and cheerfulnesse to proceed thus farre still adding vnto me some new experiments More specially by causing me to haue an earnest desire and an hope by this meanes to answer the loue of certaine worthie friends in seeking that good to theirs which I was not able to performe vnto themselues But aboue all hath he called me hereunto by the encouragement which I haue receiued from some principall benefactors to schooles good learning who though they might by their authoritie and fauours haue commanded all my seruice yet knowing my endeuour herein haue both most louingly cheared me and withall somewhat supported me to goe through with this so weightie a businesse for the good of their own schooles and places and of all others Who haue not thought it enough to found or bestow the places and to endow them with meete maintenance vnlesse they shall also do what may be to leaue in them the best meanes of all good instruction and education To whom not onely my selfe but the Church of God as I trust shall euer be beholden But to passe ouer this point That worthie desire of our royall Soueraigne whom the Lord long preserue to his glory and the good of all his people namely to haue all good learning to florish in these his dominions declared so many wayes specially in that his gracious incitement to all Schoolemaisters in the conclusion of his Maiesties letters set before our common Grammar ought not onely to prouoke but to binde vs all who haue this function and charge to indeuour our selues to the vttermost to search out still the best meanes for the most fruitfull training vp of our Scholars in all good literature and vertuous conditions where he so royally assureth vs that as we shall receiue reward of Almightie God for the same so of his Maiestie worthy commendations And therefore whatsoe●er comfort we shall finde by our trauels therein to make the same fully knowne for the generall good of all as God shall vouchsafe vs fit occasions thereunto For the manner which I haue vsed in all this proceeding the Preface to the Reader in the same our common Grammar hath directed me where hauing affirmed that the varietie of teaching is diuerse and alwayes will be for that euerie Schoolemaister liketh that which he knoweth seeth not the vse of that which he knoweth not and therefore iudgeth that to be the most sufficient way which he seeth to be the readiest meane to bring a learner to haue knowledge therein it directeth vs thus Wherefore it is not amisse saith it if one seeing by triall an easier and a readier way then the common sort of Teachers do would say that he hath proued and for the commoditie allowed it that others not knnwing the same might by experience proue the like then by proofe reasonably iudge thereof not hereby excluding the better way when it is found but in the meane season forbidding the worse This course haue I followed in all directions which I haue here obserued set them downe accordingly Whereas it may be obiected and said that sundry haue written very learned treatises concerning the trayning vp of youth I answer that it is so indeede yet that I may speake in modesty as the truth is all the learned do well know that they are such as do onely set downe the same in a generall maner or do write of some one piece or two alone or at most of some few parts of Grammar learning and matters appertaining thereunto and the principall of them vnknowne to the common sort of teachers or else they are beyond the capacity and reach of the meaner sort for whom this is cheifly intended or at least they haue specially fitted their course for the instruction of two or three alone to be trained vp in priuate houses as our renowned Maister A●kam But none whom I know or haue heard of haue in this kind of search and triall gone through the seuerall parts of our Grammarschoole learning applying themselues for the weakest for the common countrey Schooles thus leading them as by the hand thorow all the whole courses thereof onely according to our common Grammar and most approued classicall Authors Neither haue I in this followed mine owne priuate conceit but besides searching by reading triall and obseruation I haue first for many yeares inquired further as I said the best courses from the most experienced who haue proued them euen of such as haue sent most excellent scholars vnto the Vniuersities as I haue bene assured from some of the chiefe in the same Secondly I haue made triall to see a demonstration of euery thing Thirdly I haue had so much as I could the iudgement of all the learned with whom I could confer or communicate Fourthly so far as I haue bene able I haue procu●ed yearely trials to be made by some of

other whosoeuer shall succeed You that haue more excellent in any kinde communicate them with vs as we haue presumed herein in duty to tender thus much vnto you But let none of vs be discouraged though we do not find our desires at the first set to it cheerfully and in due time our eyes shall behold it Thus also our brethren who are of the most excellent gifts I meane the Maisters of all the principall schooles of our nation and all other sound hearted fauourers of good learning seeing our louing contention shal be enforced to ioyne hearts and hands and to affoord vs likewise their vttermost helpe and countenance which in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ and by our appearing before him as they tender his glory the good of our Church their natiue countrey I againe humbly intreat at their hands especially their directions for the best performance of these chiefest and most necessarie excercises mentioned and whatsoeuer else they find vs too short in for the full adorning of the Grammar Schoole By this means shall the worke of God prosper in our hands going forward happily that we shall vndoubtedly find the desires of our s●●les and wherein the excellency of the speedy attaining to all good learning doth consist to the endlesse glory of our most holy and onely wise God the lasting honour of our Nation of the Church of Christ the safe preseruation of our liues and religion with the happinesse of posteritie euen to match go beyond our aduersaries Thus finally all true learning shall be had in lasting honour and all vnfained fauourers and furtherers of the same shall triumph eternally Which that it may let me onely adjoyne that worthy incouragement wherewith Christophorus Hegendorphinus incited one of his scholars now many yeares ago Tu verò in liter as Graecas Latinas vt soles gnauiter incumbe Nec te deterreat quod in hoc seculo tam literae quam literati contemptui sint redibit crede mihi redibit suus honor literis literatis nam omnium rerum vicissitudo est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inquit Sophocles But applie you your selfe cheerfully vnto Greeke and Latin studies as you are wont Neither let this terrifie you that in this age as well learning as learned men are in such contempt There will returne beleeue me there will returne their due honour both to learning and to learned men for there is an intercourse of all things For vnto them that shall liue in the last age pleasant things shall be made bitter and yet pleasant and beloued afterwards againe as saith Sophocles that ancient Greeke Poet. Thus farre Hegendorphinus as foretelling truly I trust the glorie of this last succeeding age whereto let all heartie friends of good learning euer say Amen CONTENTS IN GENERALL OF SVCH THINGS AS may by Gods blessing be easily effected in our ordinarie Grammar schooles 1. TO teach schol●rs how to be able to reade well and write true or orthographie in a short time 2. To make them ready in all points of their Accidence and Grammar to answer anie necessarie question therein 3. To 〈◊〉 without booke all the vsuall and necessarie Rules to 〈◊〉 their Grammar rules to giue the meaning vse and order of the rules to shew the examples and to apply them which being well performed will make all other learning easie and pleasant 4. In the seuerall 〈…〉 and Authors to construe truly and in proprietie of wor●s and sense and also in pure phrase to parse of themselues and to giue a right reason of euerie word why it must be so and not otherwise and to deliuer the English of the Lectures perfectly out of the Latine 5. Out of an English Grammaticall translation of their Authors to make and to construe anie part of the Latine which they haue learned or do presently learne to proue that it must be so and so to reade the Latine out of the English first in the plaine Grammaticall order after as the wo●ds are placed in the Author or in other good composition Also to p●rse in Latine looking onely vpon the translation and to all their Poets which they so learne to do all this without booke which is farre the surest viz. to repeate construe and parse with their booke vnder their arme 6. To take their Lectures of themselues except in the verie lowest Formes and first entrers into construction or to do it with verie little helpe in some more difficult things 7. To enter surely in making Latine without danger of making false Latine or vsing anie barbarous phrase 8. To 〈◊〉 true Latine and pure Tullies phrase and to proue it to be true and pure 9. To 〈…〉 imitating Tully and the best A●thors in that kind 〈◊〉 and pithie in pure Latine and familiar 10. To translate into English according to proprietie both of words and sense and out of the English to reade the Latine againe to proue it and giue a reason of euerie thing 11. To take a peece of Tully or of anie other familiar easie Authour Grammatically translated and in proprietie of words and to turne or reade the same out of the Translation into good Latine and verie neere vnto the words of the Author so as in most you shall hardly discerne whether it be the Authors Latine or the Scholars 12. To correct their faults of themsel●es when they are but noted out vnto them or a question is asked of them 13. To be able in each Forme at anie time whensoeuer they shall be apposed of a sodaine in any part of their Authors which they haue lately learned to construe parse reade into English and in those Authors whereof they haue translations forth of the translation to construe and to reade into the Latine of their Author First into the naturall order then into the order of the Author or neare vnto it and in their Poëts to do all this without booke as was sayd before and so to giue an account at each quarters ●nd what they haue learned in that quarter so from quarter to quarter to do the like 14. In Virgil Horace and other the chiefe and most approued Schoole Authors in Poëtrie and Prose to resolue any peece for all these points of learning and to do it in good Latine In Construing to giue propriety of words and sense and also to expound in good phrase Scanning the Verses and giuing a reason thereof Shewing the difficulties of Grammar Obseruing the Elegances of Rhetoricke in Tropes and Figures Noting Phrases and Epithets with other principall obseruations 15. So to reade ouer so much of the chiefe Latine Poëts as Virgil Horace c. and of other the best Authors as shall be thought necessary by that time that by reason of their yeares they be in any measure thought fit for their discretion to go vnto the Vniuersity and to be able to go thorough the rest of themselues by ordinary helpes 16. In Greeke to take their Lectures