Aemilia, Bat.

BAt my son, my son Bat.

What will you?

It is time to rise.

Suffer me, I pray [you] as yet to rest a little.

It is slept e­nough [of thee.] Thou hast slept enough.

My sonne rise. Rise my sonne.

How many houres haue I slept?

Almost ten, too long. ouer-long.

I wold to God it may be lawfull to sleep to [my] fill. I would it might be lawfull. I might sleep my fill.

Onely open [thine] eyes.

In truth I cannot.

See how cleare [heauen.] faire weather it is abroad.

What cōcerneth it me. doth it belong to me whether it be a cleare heauen or cloudy. cleare or clou­die?

Loe or see. Beholde euen the sun hath visited thee. shined vpon thee.

Is it risen now?Is [the sun] now risen.

A good while agoe.

I can hardly driue away sleep.

Lift vp [thy] body. Sleepe will depart away by & by.

Where is [my] shirt?

Beholde it. Loe, it lieth vnder the pillow. bolster.

Mother depart, I will rise by and by.

Doe not sleep againe.

I will not do it. I will not, now. onely goe your way.

I goe.

[Page] Cornelius, Dorothee.

MOther what a clock is it?

What saiest thou? art thou so taught. What say you? Are you so taught?

What am I taught?

Ought you not to to haue saluted. salute me before?

A goo [...] mor­row [be to you.] Good morrow [to you]

And to you. Now ask what thou wilt? what you will?

My mother t [...]ll me of all loue. I pray you.

What wil you that I tel [you?]

What a clock it is.

The sixt houre is at hand. It is almost six.

hath it soun­ded, or not yet? Hath the clock smitten, or no?

I doe not think it to haue smit­ten. that it hath smitten.

I would that may be true. that were true.

I t [...]uly haue n [...]t. In truth I haue not heard it strike. heard the sound.

I feare euilly the hand of our master. I much feare [our] masters hand.

You may preuent [your] [Page 6] master, if you loiter not.

I deem it to be done so to me, or that I must or may doe so. I thinke that I am to doe so.

But so, that you go not hence vncommed or vnwashen.

I will wash then when I shall re­turne. When I shall return, then will I wash.

Yea rather wash now.

My mother I pray you suffer me to goe away now, lest I b [...]e beaten. I pray you my mother, let me goe my way now, that I be not beaten.

Goe thy way with thine own perill. at thy perill.

Eualdus. Francis.

Hoe sirra. HOe you, from whence come you so late?

From our house.

Haue you not heard? Heard you not the sound of the bell?

O master to be obserued. O reuerend master I could not heare.

What? Not? whether hast thou been deafe. could you not hear? were you deafe?

Not at all. No.

How therefore. then could you not heare the bell?

I slept deep [...]y. soundly.

What doe I What heare I?

Neither my mother had wa­ked me. Neither had my mother wa­kened me.

Can you not awake, vnlesse you be stirred vp. raised vp?

Will you not disdaine or take it ill. be angry, if I confesse the truth?

No, vnlesse you vtter a false thing. some falshood.

Vnlesse some one raised me, I beleeue I cannot awake. I should not awake before noon, I slept so sweetly.

Will you rise hereafter more early?

Indeed I will do my indeuor.

Doe so: It is pardoned to you to day. viz. I pardon you to day. you are pardoned to day, because you haue cō ­fessed the truth. Get you hēce to your fellowes.

Most reuerend master, I giue you immortall thanks.

Gerarde. Henry.

Depart, or sit a little further. GIue place a little.

Hast thou not place [...]. enough there?

No.

Neither can I giue place any [Page 7] thing at all.

But where shall I sit?

Where thou wilst.

I sit here very fitly.

But I admonish thee, that thou depart quickely out of my lappe. bosome.

But shew thou me, where I may sit otherwhere.

Sit where dogs sit.

And where do dogs sit?

Vpon their buttocks.

I doe so likewise. in like manner.

But knowest thou. doest thou knowe how thou sittest?

Like a man.

And knowest thou where?

In thy bosome. lap.

But now thou liest vpward to me. viz. I will smite vp thy heeles. liest me with thy face vpward.

Thou shalt neuer doe this to me without p [...] ­nishment. scot-free.

I weigh not thy threats of a flock of woole. lock of woole.

Be not ouer saucy.

Begin when, or as thou wilt. what thou wilt. Thou shalt finde [...]e a man.

O matchlesse, or peerlesse. inuincible champion! [Page] God saue you.

But thou shalt not giue me a blow or [...]uffit, without something. lay thy fist vpon mee scot-free, I wold haue thee also to know this.

Verely my fist should stick in [thy] cheek a good while agoe, vnlesse I feated our Master. Verely, but that I feare our Master, [my] fist should haue stuck on thy cheeke a good while agoe.

If thou wil [...] any thing, call mee forth after eight of the clock.

I call thee forth▪ come.

I wil take [my] breakfast be­fore, that I may be stronger.

It behoueth thee. Thou must exp [...]ct so long.

I knew them to haue been. they w [...]re but bub­bles that thou[s [...]] braggedst.

O thou mad fellow, may we fight here being consecrated to the same studies, indued with the same precepts of vertue? Get thee gone with such [...]fling or vaine tales, or b [...]b­bling. friuolou [...] fables.

Now I iudge thee [to bee] a man, [ [...]oth] a gentleman, & vnconquerable. generous and inu [...]ncible.

Iohn. Lambert. Martin. Nicholas.

BOyes, what noise is there, as if [your] Master be away. were absent?

These two [boyes.] These two contend.

You yong men concerning what matter. You youthes, about what doe you contende?

Hee will not restore me my quill which hee hath snatched from mee. taken away.

If hee doe it not quickly, let him look for me with the rod.

He saith himselfe wil [...] flee. he will run away.

Keepe him back. Hould yee him and bring [him] to me.

See [...]e taketh. he layeth hould of my sleeue bitingly. with his teeth.

I also will pluck out from him. will pull out all those his teeth, if he let not go straightway. by and by.

Hee is a wicked boy, and scratcheth with [his] nailes.

For. But why art thou so wicked mis­chie [...]ous. shreud a boy?

What haue I done?

Thou hast snatched away the pen from that boy. that boyes pen.

Why also ga [...]e he me an [...]gno­minious name. Why then did hee mis-call mee?

He will not doe anymore. Hee will doe no more.

Nor I.

Thou saidst thee to will to flee away. thou wouldst run away.

Hee is a foole, that suffereth himselfe to be beaten, when it may be lawfull for him to flee. whi­lest he may flee.

And thou tookest hould of his sleeue with thy teeth.

I catched at his hand, hee withdrew his hand, [and] I catched. I tooke [his] sleeue.

Art thou so wicked & a biter?

Euen mice inuade. lay hands vpon the hands of them that hould them. May not the same be lawfull to me that [i [...] lawfull] to mice. May not I doe the same that mice doe?

But mice are harmelesse ve­ry often when they are taken.

I also am innocent. harmlesse, for I restored by and by that which I had snatched. taken away.

To wit, or indeed. Verely, for feare of rods.

He is not without hope of recouery. desperately euill, [Page 9] who abstaineth from euill-doing, for feare of euill.

Thou art a talker, or pratler. full of words.

Good Master it pleaseth. it is wel, so that I be not an euill talker. [...]aughtily. euilly ful of words.

Otto. Peter.

HAue you not a little knife. a knife which you may giue me to lend. that you may lend mee?

I haue [one] indeed, but I haue not one to lend you.

Wherefore?

[...]That] which I haue is a new [...]ne, it will not returne, if I [...]uffer it to wander abroad.

doe not feare. Feare not, I will stand still. stay here [...]o long whilst I vse it.

I lend it not. I will not lend it.

Peraduenture you haue [...]hat] which I lost of late.

[...]aue you lost a knife indeed?

[It is] done. It is so.

[...]hat a one was it?

Do you desire to heare. Will you heare what a one [...] was?

[...] will.

It was a little one and dull.

well. I heare it.

It had a blunt poyn [...].

What besides?

It had a red ha [...]t,distinct. order set with br [...]zen nailes or tacks s [...]uds.

What shew you. say you?

[It had] a hole aboue. in the en [...] ▪

Yours was altogether like that which I haue.

I pray you let me see it. suffer [me] [...] I may looke vpon it.

See [it.]

Shew me all of it. the whole.

Goe too, looke vpon to [your] fill. [your] fill.

Of all loue tell mee, wh [...] you haue got this little knife. knife [...]

Why aske you that?

I haue need to There is need to me. aske.

I haue no need of an a question or demand. ans [...]

Tell me absolutely. plainely, whe [...] you haue it. had it.

I found it.

Adde, before it was lost.

Say you, before it was marred. rayd.

Yet you bidde mee to [...] [Page 10] [...]ecture.

I grant.

Haue you bought it?

It is so indeed.

Of whom I pray you.

Of a certaine young man a marchant, [or one who vseth buying and sel­ling]. a chapman.

In goodsooth it is a stollen [knife.] stollen.

[That] nothing belongs to mee.

But dare you buy stollen things?

[I dare buy] any things what­soeuer without danger. difference.

You are better by no­thing. no better than a theefe.

let me not be. Be it I am so. But why say you this to be a stollen knife, or that this is a stollen knife. this knife to be stollen?

It was mine.

I beleeue it was yours: but now it is mine.

Therfore I perswade or counsell you. aduise you that you giue [me] my knife. mine.

You shall not take it so from mee.

Rest. I will cause by and by, that you restore it me against your will, or by con­straint. whe­ther you wil or no.

What will you doe?

I will go to [our] Master. I [...] lay open the matter to him in order. He will compel yo [...] to restore [it.]

But I, leaue being asked by & by. hauing asked leau [...] by and by, wil tarry at home neither will I come to th [...] schoole to day.

Quirinus. Reynere. Sebastian.

MOst reuerend master I pray you command. bid th [...] [boy] that heegiue me my knife againe. restore me [...] my knife.

Hoe [...]. Hoe you. haue you an [...] thing that isof this boy. this boyes?

I haue not.

How frowardly. saucily answere yo [...] mee?

How saucily indeed. malapa [...]tly, or impudently. I pray you? I say me to haue nothing. that I haue nothing.

Haue you not another man [...] knife?

Indeed I haue not.

Neither haue you any knife?

I haue a little one. That is mine. [But] it is mine owne.

Where is it?

Beholde it in my sheath. See, it is in my sheath.

Shew it me.

I refuse not, or I am willing. I doe not refuse.

Where had you. got you this knife?

I haue had it almost a mo­neth.

I aske not that. But whence had. had you [it]?

of a Marchants factour▪ [viz. one allowed to buy and sell] a young man. Of a young man of a Marchants factour▪ [viz. one allowed to buy and sell] a young man. a factor. He sould it me.

For how much?

For a Brabant farthing.

The knife is better, than the price which you gaue:

I made a good marchandize or bargain. market if it be as you say.

But this boy saith. hee contends that it is his.

It is not so. It is mine. If hee haue lost any let him inquire. I haue taken a­way nothing which is of him, or hath been. I took nothing away which either is or was his.

Will you yeeld to me?

I will so that I may not be iniured. if no iniury be done to mee.

I will not contention to be between you. haue any conten­tion between you.

But I contend with no man.

Therefore restore his knife to this boy. restore him his knife.

I refuse not, so that hee re­store me my mony.

He shall doe it.

[I would] that he doe it presently. by and by.

Giue him his mony quickly.

Take [your] mony.

Take you your knife.

So it becom­meth to be done. So it is meete to be. For great priuate grudges or secret hatred. grudges doe oft-times come of such beginnings, e­uen amongst them that are growen to full age. of yeares.

Thomas. Vincentia.

MOther, when shall it be dined? when shall we dine?

By and by, if so be that you expect. wait a little?

I must be gone. go away forthwith.

Whither, O good boy, or O good fel­low. O good sir, so quickly?

Whither it becommeth sco­lars to goe.

To wit. Forsooth to play.

To wit. Certainly, to the very place of execution.

The first [houre] hath it not sounded as yet. It hath not yet smitten one.

But we must be there before the clock smite. But it becommeth vs to [...]reuent the sound.

How oft by the week. in the week?

Daily.

At what a clock?

What aske you? At euery houre.

Why then rest you so secure­ly in the morning?

I neuer doe it vnpaid. vnpunished.

What doe you. dooest thou feare stripes more after dinner, than after sleep?

Seek some body. [one] who may an­swer you: if you will not giue me meat, I will goe a­way without any dinner. vndined.

Go whither thou wilt. There in no body that stayeth thee. If thou dine not, thou wilt sup more willingly. more gladly at night.

[Page] Andrew. Bartholomew.

WHy come you slacker, viz. later. mon [...] slowly to the schools than the rest of the scholers, or than others. than the rest?

My mother commanded me to tarry a little, whilest shee prepare or make ready the po [...]-hearbs. prepared the pottage.

When is the po [...]. pottage wo [...] to seeth?

A [...]out twelue. A little before twelue of the clock.

But now it is beyond the fi [...]st. past one.

She neuer did so before. This neuer fel out vnto he [...] before. Moreouer, when a [...] she was slacker in preparing▪ I stayd not her slownes. because I feared your authority. for­sooth fearing your gouerne­ment. Therefore I ran forth hither vndined.

Say you [so?]

I say it indeed.

Verily it pitieth me of you, viz. I am sory for you. for you. But sup more libe­rally. sup at euening more li­berally.

Where it is di­ned [of vs] spa­ringly, it is not supped [of vs] li­berally, or largely When wee dine sparingly, we sup not liberally.

[Page 13] Cornelia, Dionisius.

[THou] most slothfull fellow arise.

Alasse, doe not be troub [...]esome. be not troublesome to mee.

Wilt thou snort all the day? Rise, I say, that may make thy bed handsome againe. I may make thy bed.

What sayest thou at length. I pray thee.

That thou arise.

Is it time?

Your master is entred into the schoole: yet thou askest whether it be time?

How long agoe entred he?

Now a good while agoe. A good while agoe.

therefore what a clock is it? What a clock is it then?

It is about seuen.

Hoe, what. why suffered you. doe you suffer [me] to sleep so long?

Who can stir you vp? should raise you vp?

Either you, or some one of our folke. some one of the family.

But how can you be stirred vp?

How? by crying to, or by noyse. By cry or by touching

But I my selfe haue called vpon thee in vain, more then ten times.

Called you me indeed. Haue you called me in va­ry deed?

[Yea] [I called] so strongly, or lu­stily. & intruth so strong­ly, that [I called] so strongly, or lu­stily. you might heare I beleeue, I beleeue you might heare if you were dead. although you were dead.

I suppose [it to be] false. I coniecture it [to be] false.

I say, I called [you.]

If you had called [me], I should h [...]are. I should haue heard.

You might heare. haue heard, except you had dissembled. if you had not dissembled.

I would rise. haue risen if I had heard.

Truly [you wold haue risen] so &c. Indeed so cheerfully as you are wont.

I speake again [...]. I answere in vaine to a wo­man.

Make haste to array your selfe, or put on your apparell. to get your self ready, vnlesse you will be knocked. bee beaten.

I pray thee get thee gone & care for m [...]ters belon­ging to the kitchen. [thy] kitchen.

That sh [...]ll be looked well to, [Page 14] yea thou being dead. though thou wast dead.

Get thee gone, I pray thee againe; I cannot array my selfe you being pre­sent. put on my cloathes, whilst thou art present.

Are you made. become so modest, or shamfac't. bash­full of a sudden.

In the meane time whilest thou prattlest here, the houre goeth away, there are stripes [or rods] prepa­red for me which thou wilt not feele. stripes are pre­pared for me, which thou fee­lest not.

In good sooth thou [art] worthy sharp chastisement. correction.

Why? Wherefore?

I know not.

But I knowe what I will an­swere to [our] Master.

I pray thee what other thing. What other thing, I pray thee, than that there is no­thing more sluggish, nothing more sleepy than thou.

Yea some other thing. something else.

To wit. Forsooth that thou slee­pest so securely, that thou canst be stirred vp by no cry, it is so farre off, that thou shouldst awake of thine own [Page] accord, either for loue of learning, or for feare of our master, or for the reuerence of thy parents.

If thou wert a stranger, or an aliene, or anothers. another I know what I would doe.

Verely would you beare vs. Wouldest thou beate in­deed? Get thee gone. Go whither thou art worthy.

I pray thee giue ouer pr [...]tling at length. I beseech thee that at length thou cease to prattle.

I will not rest vntill thou a­rise.

Sister, I cannot vnlesse you goe your way.

I goe to call [my] father.

Yea sister [call] your mother. Yea [call] your mother, so that you sister get you gone.

I goe my way, another will returne.

Erasmus, Fred [...]ricus.

Come you. COme you hither also with [your] slou [...]nish or [...]ough or curled pate. [vncō ­ [...]ed] head.

Here I am.

I see it. But from whence [Page 15] come you so late, and so vntrimmed or slou [...]n-like. vn­handsome.

First out of [my] bed, after­wards out of our houses. from our houses.

I now omit this, that you come late. Ought you not to kemb your head, before you came to the schoole?

We haue not a combe.

Why doe you not buy?

My parents say money to be wanting to them. that they want mony.

Sell yee corne, that that mony may be sufficient or abound [vnto you.] you may haue money.

There is no corne to vs. We haue no corne.

But ye may aske to vse. borrow a combe for your vse. a comb otherwhere.

No man will giue to lend to vs. lend vs.

Wherefore?

we haue almost all, or all for the most part haue. We haue most of v [...]scabbed heads: I beleeu [...]. thinke men doe auoid. shun that.

Doe your parents draw out. spend so many lugs of bee [...]e. pots of ale, [and] can they not withdraw. spare so much from their throat, that they may buy a combe?

In truth I know not.

Either returne. come to me [...] [...] handsome to the schools, o [...] come not at all.

I will tell [my parents.]

Godfride, Herman [...].

I See very many to be away hoe custos. monitour look [...] bout [you.]

Master it is so.

See that you haue the name of all who are now away, described. [...] downe.

In a little booke?

Yea in a little paper, which you may deliuer me. giue me into m [...] hands.

When?

As soone as I shall returne the schoole.

I will doe it. It shall be done.

In the meane while you shal [...] care. prouide, that little bun­ches [or bundles] of limber rods be prepared for me. that I haue ro [...] prepared me. If I be safe. If I liue▪ [...] day, I will make that If I be safe. you come together it be come to­gether of you more studiously. more d [...] gently.

I command you to besecure asmuch as be­longeth to rods. I wish you to bee secure concerning rods.

You say well.

Iames, Laurence.

Sleeper, stripes remaine [or tarry for] you. O [You] sleeper you must be whipped.

What haue I done?

Because you haue not been present. you were not pre­sent.

Where?

In the schoole.

I hasted thither.

You haste too late.

Why so?

The houre hath gone away is passed, we are dismissed by [our] master.

So earely?

But how [...]arely How earely I pray you? The eight houre hath soun­ded. It hath smitten eight a good while agoe.

Whether doe you delude me. Doe you delude me?

No truely.

Hoe, tell me, hath there been was there any mention of me?

And in truth a very great men­tion. Yea indeed, very great.

Of all loue tell me. Tell [me] of all loue.

So it is. Our master comman­ded all in generall o be written to­gether. all to be written down.

Whether? Whether the Preseat, or the absent. Those present, or those absent?

Verely the absent.

It hath it euill. That is ill. For if hee had commanded the present to be written down, I could cō ­tend mee to haue been omitted. that I was omitted. But I pray you who noted. But who, I pray you noted?

Venantius Gallus.

Hoe, I am safe, if you say the truth. true.

Why gesture you so, [viz.] doe you so reioyce. skippe you [so]?

He is bound to me. in my danger. I will goe to him and I wil earnest­ly entreat him that he would blot out or dash out. put out my name. He will not be bolde to deny me. Hee dare not deny [me].

He will doe it induced by no reward. He will not do it for any re­ward.

You shall not say so. Say not so. I know what he hath promised me.

You will both hang viz. be grieuously beaten. be hanged if your master know it againe. know it.

I commit that to the Gods aboue. to God.

[Page 16] Matthew, Nestorius, Andrew, Peter, Iohn.

CVstos, prepare rods and the ferula.

They are in readinesse.

Where are the names of thē which were away?

They are here.

Recite all asunder. euery one asun­der.

Andrew [the son [...]e] of the smith, or the smithssonne, or Andrew Smith. Andrew Fabri.

Come hither, why were you not heere to day?

My father commanded mee to goe into the fi [...]ld,[his] field. that I might knowe whether the ditchers were there.

You should haue. had come to me to aske leaue of going away. to goe in­to the field.

It hath not been lawfull for me to goe hither. I could not comn hither, [my] father was so earnest with mee. so instant.

You should had said, your selfe not to be able. that you could not be away from the schoole without my fa­uour.

I said so indeed: but I hau [...] not ob­tained. could not obtaine leaue of him to run ouer to you, he is so im­perious.

Your father hath rule or gouern­ment. cōmand at home, I in the schoole.

But [my] father comman­ded [me] at home.

But I for bad any man to do otherwise, than here I will & command.

Will you not, that we obey our parents?

Yes verely. [Yee] altogether.

Why then am I reproued or found fault with. am I blamed for doing this?

Get thee gone, get thee gon: we draw out. we spend the time by this st [...]ni [...]g toge­ther or di [...]puta­tion. strift. Obey both of them as much as may be done. may be?

[...]ite. Call another.

Peter Pistor. Peter Baker.

Baker, goe to, tell me what hindred you?

In good truth, I rose straight after foure of the clock▪ but I ought to [...]ead meale. but I was presently to knead dough: that labour indured [Page 17] almost an houre and a halfe. And afterwards whilst I am washen, whilst I dry [mee], whilst I put on [my] stockings. nether▪ stocks and get my selfe rea­dy, the time goeth away.

Whilst you report these things vnto me thus in order, you lose time.

But most learned master, vn­lesse I should lose the time thus, I should gaine my selfe stripes. gaine stripes vnto my selfe.

You are all somewhat subtill. prettily cun­ning in excusing [your selues] [but] not so in learning. Goe your way: recite others. call the rest.

Iohn Hormus, Horny Horne.

To wit, or for­sooth [doe you] this daily. What, this euery day? Thou bringest another thing at other times. you bring now one thing, now a­nother. But what will you bring now for the excuse of your selfe?O best master.

Most worthy master yester euening. yester­day at euening we receiued. entertai­ned many guests. These sate still vntill midnight, neither was it lawfull to depart for me a broad nayle from them. nei­ther might I depart a nayle [Page] breadth from them. [And] therefore I could not awake earlier. more timely: I haue said.

Why inuited. cald you not me also among [your] other guests?

I will deale, finish, or conclude. worke with [my] pa­rents, that you may be called. in­uited now and then, if you will so. so will.

Doe you promise you to doe. that you will do that so for me.

I promise it in good sooth.

See you deceiue [me] not.

Indeed there shall not be any want in me, but you shall be called. it shall not stay by mee, that you shall not bee bidden.

You are a toward youth. thrifty young man. Bee carefull that you may be also studious.

I will doe so.

Depart hence into your place.

Bid you me. Doe you wish mee to recite. to call the rest?

Not at all. No not at this time. I will not defraud the whole com­pany of their lesson for the [...]othfulnesse of a few. But [Page 18] boyes. sirs you shall re­member this. remember this, here▪ after you shall not at all ex­cuse [your] absence: whoso­euer shalbe away without my leaue. fauour shall be beaten.

Oswald, Paul, The company of boyes.

MEditate those things diligently, which we reade now. we now reade.

We will doe it diligently.

Master the eight houre hath sounded. it hath smitten eight, if you know not.

Is the eight houre heard. Is it heard?

It is indeed.

How long agoe?

Not so long agoe. very long agoe.

Boyes rest a little. After that I shall demand what I list. aske of this [boy] what I please, I will dismisse you all by and by. Answere thou me.

What I?

You know what you ought [to doe.]

When?

By and by, when you shall come home.

Is any thing to be done besides that which is ac­customed. Am I to doe any thing be­sides that which I am wont?

What are you wont to doe?

If I bee vncombed, or vn­washen, I comb and wash.

Well, what doe you after?

I breake my fast, I returne very quickly to the schoole.

Well. And nothing more?

Nothing truly. If it become any thing besides to be done. If any thing besides ought to bee done, aduise or direct mee. admonish [me] I pray you.

I will doe so, hearken.

I hearken or listen. I heare, tell [me.]

At what time soeuer you en­ter into [your] house. the house, you ne­uer ought to enter holding your peace. beeing silent.

Neither doe I that.

What say you as you enter, or when you enter in. entering?

I salute [my] mother.

Most iustly. Most deseruedly. But if your mother be away, whom salute you?

If I see her no where. If I doe not see her, I salute the family.

But if your father shall en­ter in after, do you not salute him?

No not at all. No. I thought. I beleeued me t [...] haue done my duty. that I had don my duty, if I salute once.

Yea, such honour is due to your father especially.

I was igno­rant. I knew not. What if my fa­ther neither see me, nor speak to me.

Neuerthelesse, you ought to come vnto him of your owne accord, and your head being vncouered, to bend your ham. and to bow your knee to him, with your head bare, and to salute him honourably. reuerently.

What, in other words, then in which we are wont to salute other men?

Altogether in other.

In what [words?]

Most deare fa­ther God saue you. God saue you most deare father: or thus: My father God saue you. God saue you my father.

I holde it, or perceiue it. I vnderstand it.

If hee shall aske any thing, you shall answere curteously what you know.

I will remember [it.]

Take heede [left] any thing of. any of those things displease you, which he either sa [...]th or doth.

I am not so disdainfull that the my fathers deeds or words. doings or sayings of my father can displease. should displease me.

See you be pliant to eue­ry commaund. be obedient at e­uery command.

So I am.

Take heed you neuer offend him.

I will not doe it willingly.

Furthermore, if at any time he shall thunder against you beeing offended, indure. beare his chiding being still or si­lent. quietly.

What? If I haue deserued no blame, nothing?

[Yea] learne to endure euen an vniust chiding, especially of [your] parent.

I will endeuour [i [...]] for all the man­ly part in me. with all my power.

You ought to worship. to honour and reuerence both your parent [...] with like obseruance. duty.

I doe so although no mi [...] [Page 20] admonish me.

If so that you doe it, holde on. goe on to doe it. If not, doe it di­ligently.

I will omit nothing willingly.

You say honestly. Boyes. Sirs, what things. what I haue taught this one boy, I would haue all of you to learne. taught the same things the same.

We vnderstand [it.]

Now goe to take your breakfast. to breakfast, and returne about the ninth houre. about nine of the clock.

Quintine, Robert, Seruatius.

WHo hath the signe of the vulgar tongue. viz. of that which euery bondslaue speakes. the note for speaking Eng­lish?

I.

Whom haue you noted?

Seruatius.

Haue you noted me?

Yea.

For what cause?

Because you haue vsed the En­glish tongue. spoken English.

Against whom. To whom haue I spoken?

Against me. To me.

O greatest lier towards thee. To thee most notable lier?

Why dost thou so cry out?

Should I not cry out, when this boy dare preach or declare such things. he dare tell such [lies?]

Why should I not be bould. dare when it is true?

O false speaker! But when heardest thou mee speaking. speake English?

Wilt thou know?

Yea verely I desire it.

[I heard thee] somewhere of late.

Heare. Of all good fellow­ship tell [me] what day? or in what coun­trey. where?

The day is slipt from me. I haue forgot the day, I do not remember the place.

Tell [me] who being pre­sent. who was present?

Me and your self. I and thou.

It is false.

It is true.

Verely. Forsooth, that which I say [is true.]

Yea that which I say.

In good truth I doubt whe­ther I may giue c [...]e­dit to. I shall beleeue.

Good master, I pray you th [...]t it may be credited [or cre­dit may be giuen] to him. that he may bee beleeued, who speakes the truth.

I affirm you to haue spoken the vulgar tongue. that you spake En­glish.

Proue me to haue spoken. that I spake English.

Yea prooue O best master. that you spake not.

O most worthy master, notable iniury is done to me. I haue notable iniury done to mee.

Haue you neuer vttered the En­glish speech be­fore this? Neuer spake you English before?

Very oft I confesse it.

It is credible you also to haue spoken the vulgar tongue then when he noted you. Then also it is credible, that you spake English when hee noted you.

The slaue. knaue lieth, neither spake I the vulgar tongue. English hee beeing present, neither hath he noted me. did he note mee.

In good sooth I laugh, nei­ther doe I knowe whether I may beleeue. This boy ne­uer lied to me. tolde me lie before this day: thou hast once & againe. you haue oft. againe and againe, which now makes your cause the worse.

I acknowledge that I ha [...] offended in lying in times past, but now verely I speak [...] the truth. Master I haue trespassed nothing. I haue not offended.

Would you haue me to be­leeue you?

Reuerend master, you may credit me se­curely. safely beleeue me.

Good master, either beleeue both, or beleeue neither.

I haue fallen vpon wrang­lers, as I see. Carry your selues away. Get ye both hence, in a mischiefe. Reteine thou. Keep you the note.

Very willingly, sith you will [...]o. will haue it so.

Theodorus, Venantius.

Sonne or CHild,Sirrah. haue you a pennar or pen sheath. a pen and ink horne?

Yea master. If you will [haue] anything, I will minister [or afford] it. If you will any thing, I will lend it you.

I will write two words.

Euen ten [or write] euen ten. Yea ten.

Stand still so long, whilst I write.

I will goe away no whither. not goe away, vvrite although as largely as you will. largely.

Son take &c. Childe, take your pen and inke▪ I haue noted what I would, thanke is giuen to you. I thanke you.

What may you haue thanks to me, an old man to a little yong man, [or an old man [should giue thanks] to &c. What should you thanke mee, an olde man [should thanke] a young, especially for no duety or kinde­ness. seruice.

My childe, your honest speech prouokes mee that I would speak with you a little, if you please. if you nod vnto it, viz. consent. be willing.

Sir, indeed I refuse not to speak with you: but I maruel what it is. why it is that you would speak with mee.

I will. I desire first to know of you, who are your parents.

They dwell not here: and therefore I should name thē to you in vaine.

No? where then?

At Wert.

That place is very vnknowne. altogether vnknowne to me.

Sir, I beleeue you. It is not so famous as this [place] is.

Is that Wert a great towne a towne or [...] village?

Truely, [it is] a towne, and indeed most populous: It [...] commonly called Wert.

Now I knowe it: there is great spinning & carding▪ or much working in wool. great store of clothing vsed in that place.

Now you [...]ou [...] it, or know [...]. hit it.

I beleeued you to be a scholar. you were a scho­lar.

[...] In very deed I am a scho­lar.

Therefore what hath happened▪ How then fell it out, that you should come hither for the cause of studying. for to study?

I study not here, but in the countrie. At this time I came hither for the cause of my mind. for my minde sake with my father to the market. mart.

Now you haue brought mee backe into the way. Of whom [...] haue you been. are you instituted [...] taught? instructed.

Of the schoole-masters of that place where I haue beene. I was born.

What manner of schoole­masters haue you there?

One leane, another fat.

Are they single men, or ma­ried?

Both maried.

[And] are they great schola [...] of great learning?

In truth I know not; I think of tolerable [learning.]

How many scholars haue they?

Truely a great flocke. company.

What doe they teach you?

In good sooth that which we know not. Sir the answere is ridiculous. it is a ridi­culous answere, but to be par­doned.

It pleaseth [mee.] Is any of your schoole-fellowes very well lear­ned. no­tably learn [...]d?

I haue nothing here, that I can answere.

Can they speake whatsoeuer they will. any thing in Latin.

I think so. Surely they prat­tle Latine things. in Latine daily.

What learne you?

The precepto of Grammar.

Haue you done anything wo [...] thy your labour. any good in learning?

I cannot esteeme. iudge of [my] learning.

Is it lawfull. Shall I make a triall of you?

I fly not backe. I refuse not, It is lawfull if you [...]st. you may if you please.

Do you hould. Doe you remember any little verse without book?

Very many.

Bring forth [or v [...]te] Bring some one.

to please prin­ces, [or princelike men] is not the last prayse. It is not the last praise to please chiefe men.

Gather a construction.

It is not the last praise least. to please princelike or great men. to haue pleased chiefe men.

What will to it selfe. meaneth that sen­tence, It is not the last praise.

That it is notable praise▪ ex­pressed by the contrary. Like as we say, that some boy is not vnlearned. some boy not to be vnlearned, whom wee would say to be learned.

What signifieth the last?

[That] which is the last in order. But here, as oft other­where, it is put for the least, or little, or the lowest, euen as the first is put for the chief and notable. notablest.

What part of speech is Vl­tima?

My master referred it a­mongst the original nounes. For he is not wont to dispute curiously of such light matters. such like things. And or also. Yea he himselfe had rather haue scholars who know to vse vvordes, than which know how to fight with swords or con­tend. to wran­gle about them.

The Infinitiue mood placu­isse, whereof is it gouerned, or of what doth it depend?

I thinke that this may bee spoken doubly. two manner of waies. First, that it depends of the verb Est, that the Ac­cusatiue case may be vnder­stood, as it is vsuall. the manner for. .i. pristinis. of these verbs to gouerne an Accusatiue case after them with an Infinitiue mood, that this may be the constru­ction; It is not the last praise (vnderstand) for a man to please chiefe men. great men. That it may bee like to this speech, [Page] Is it an me [...]. equall thing for a scholar to loue his master. Moreouer, it may bee said, That the Infinitiue moode placuisse, is put in steed of the Nominatiue case, as it cometh to passe. it is for most part: that it may bee like to this speech, To loue is a matter most harmfull or dammageable. hurtfull; or to this, To play with a Die. at dice is not honest.

What meanes this, Principi­bus viris, viz. princelike. chiefe men.

By chiefe men, I thinke to bee signified very mighty men, noble, rich, and the like: That princeps may bee put here in place of a Noune Adiectiue, like as in Lucius Florus it is vsed, the chiefe people, [or chiefe of the peo­ple.] Neither is that new. For T [...]rence also said, the the old man the merchant. olde merchant. the old woman the fox. A foxing old woman. A crafty olde wife is extant in Erasmus. is in Erasmus.

Of what sort. What kinde of verse is this?

A heroike verse of six metres. consists that verse An Heroick hexameter.

Whereof consists that verse. consists it?

[It consists] in the four first &c. In the foure first feet, indif­ferently of Dactyle or Spondee feet. of Dactyl or Spon­dee: in the fift place onely of a Dactyle, in the sixt of a Spondey or Trochey.

How many syllables doth a Dactyle receiue. hath a Dactyle?

[Each Dactyle foot receiues]; [syllables] Three.

Of what sort?

The first long, the two last. la­ter short.

Doe your mastersteach you these things?

I beseech you, from whence haue I learned them but from them drawen them other­wise?

It behoues him to be a rich man. Hee must needs be a rich man.

How?

Because they make a great gain who so instruct young men. youth.

But our [master] doth hardly keepe himselfe. scar­sly preserue himselfe from extreme need & necessity. penury.

Is he so poore?

Surely he is not rich.

In good sooth he is worthy [Page] of a better fortune. state.

It is so indeed, but he cannot pacifie or ap­pease by sacrifice appease fortune.

How is it a­ [...]reed to the citi­zens & to him [...]elf How doth hee agree with the citizens?

Well, I think. All doe by strift who shall fauour him most. fa­uour him by strift, this I know.

Doe they giue [him] no­thing?

He is no asker.

He deserues their bounty more by so much He doth so much more de­serue their bounty.

Your countreys. common-wealthes are rich. mighty, but ours [are] not so.

What ones are your schoole­fellowes?

Good and studious.

Doe these loue you?

[They loue me] as their bro­ther. A [...] their brother.

And what do you? &c. Doe you loue your ma­ster?

Maruelously.

You doe honestly. But in­deed, can you dispatch it to me. tell mee rea­dily why you loue [him?]

First, because he is a learned [Page 26] man.

Hee is worthily loued of all men for his learning.

And then because he is so di­ligent in teaching vs.

By this name. For this cause you owe to him especially honour and loue in like manner. & likewise loue.

And also because hee chides no man. none but gently.

In truth hee is worthy who may teach the children of kings. to teach kings children.

Neither doth hee euer beate any, but hauing admo­nished him. being admonished before.

He is a good man, asmuch as I heare.

vnto these things. Moreouer, he doth so pro­uoke all to the study of letters. of lear­ning, and to honesty, that a mother cannot prouoke her infant more more bounti­fully, [...] ten­derly. kindly to suck or to eate.

[It is necessarie that] he be a bad yong man or youth. He must needs be a naughty youth who cannot loue such a master.

Therefore I said me to loue him that I lo­ued [him] lest I should bee [Page] I iudged or deemed. thought a naughty youth.

[my] son I haue asked you now. I haue asked you [my] [my] son I haue asked you now. childe, what I desire. Now I send you away. dismisse you.

Sir, farewell.

Farewell happily, and see that you coming to your mayster. when you com to your master you salute him officiously or dutifully in my name. kind­ly from me.

I will doe it, and indeede willingly or readily. gladly.

Arnold, Bernard.

And is ther any IS there any amongst you desiring to play. desirous of play?

In good earnest all of vs in generall. wee euery one desire that.

What will you giue me if I shall make or pro­cure you plenty of play. get you leaue to play?

We all wil acknowledg our selues excee­dingly bound vn­to you. will loue you very much. ex­ceedingly.

In what thing will you de­clare this loue?

We will obey your comman­dements conti­nually. We will euer obey your pre­cepts, wee will neuer offend: wee will bestowe the chiefe di­ligence. the vtter­most diligence in study. in studying.

What punishment shall I exact or inflict. impose if you doe deceiue mee?

Impose vpon vs any punish­mē [...] whatsoeuer you will. whatsoeuer, or keep vs perpetually hereafter as euill doers. ma­factors, bound in this prison.

I come to. I agree to your sentence. I like the con­dition. The cōdition pleaseth [me.] Play all, so it be honestly but honestly.

Conrade, Didimus.

I Wonder that [our ma­ster] can suffer vs to sit idle here in so cleare a heauen. in so faire weather. At other times when it is ei­ther raine or a storm, he will suffer himselfe to be ouer in­treated: now he is impossible to be intreated. inexo­rable.

for what would you doe? Why, what a will [or desire] you to doe. would you do?

I desire gladly [or tickle] to play I desired much to play a good while agoe.

Do you dote? we playd [but] 3 daies agoe. the day before yesterday▪ hath that fallen away [or slipt] from you. haue you forgot it.

But the windes and the [Page] shoure [...] were so ve­hement. did so rage that day, that it pleased me not. I had no list to look out from home.

Could our master fore know what would [...]all out? Surely when we were dismissed it was cleare [or a clearesky.] f [...]ire.

But a little after wee were gone forth to play, O the immor­tal God! (O won­derfull!) how great a tem­p [...]st arose of a sudden!

Sith you are so desirous of play, I pray you, what liketh i [...] you to doe?

That which we might not. was not lawfull of l [...]te.

[And] what is that at length. I pray you.

To runne in the fields, to bounce. leap in the meadowes, to shout aloude. to fill the empty heauen with [our] great cries.

O good Gods. Goodly, how great a plea­sure is that!

Know you not? I would not indeed chuse to eate. eate no not hony, or sugar in comparison of this pleasure.

I remember our masters to remember or rehea [...]se. [...]o speak of cer [...]aine other exer­cises.

Truly [...] my iudgement. Certainely better cannot be found in my iudgement.

What thinke you of the hand ball. What seems the hand-ball vnto you?

I neuer exercised my selfe in this kinde of playing of play : more­ouer, neither do my pow­ers suffice. doth my strength suffice, neither haue I. know I the skill.

What, doth fishing please you?

Whether? fishing with hook, or fishing with net?

Both of them. Either [of them.]

Truely I am delighted. drawen with neither.

For what cause?

The one makes [vs] slothful, the other wets vs. makes [vs] we [...].

Whether doth wrastling de­light you? What? doth not wrastling delight you?

No not at all.

Why not?

I feare falling or breaking or a rupture. bruising.

Do you not list to ride. Doe you not like riding?

I neuer got a horsback. ridde.

Do you not like hunting [Doth it not like you] t [...] hunt?

We want nets. There are wanting nette [...] hunting slaues, dogs.

[Doe you not delight] t [...] swim?

It is an vnprofitable & dangerous art. skill, and vnpermitted to vs. not granted to vs.

in shooting. [Are you not delighted] t [...] shoot?

I brake [my] boaw of late.

You should repa [...]e it. mend it.

I haue not a string.

You should buy [one.]

Where?

Of the stetchers. boawyers.

If mony a­bounded. If I had money enough, I would buy bookes which there is need to me. I haue need of.

Haue you learned musick?

I would neuer apply my minde [to it.]

It is a maruell. Wonderfull, sith it is both liberall and very pleasant.

I beleeue [you.] But I haue euer abhorred from. viz disliked. abhorred singing from [Page 29] my childe hood.

And sith no liberall exercise delighte [...]h you, I much maruell I wonder greatly if any one can indure to play with you.

O mad [boy] do you beleeue all to be so. dost thou be­leeue that all are so sowre, crabbish▪ viz. vnfit to com­pany with. austere as thou art? In good sooth is I will. would I can [haue compa­nion [...].]

Holde your peace, [our] ma­ster is present, if he should see vs talking and examine what we doe. a [...]ke, what can we answer?

I could easily finde what I may answer.

Giles Egidius, Frederick Fredericus.

TAke these tables or [...] these letters. this letter.

What needs any letter. What need is there of any letter?

Carry it to [you [...]] master.

Where shall I finde him?

At his owne house.

What if he be not at home?

Giue it him in the schoole.

Shall I say nothing?

That hee would doe th [...] which these letters do speak or mention this letter speakes.

Doe you command mee t [...] returne. run back straight way, afte [...] I haue restored it or giuen it. deliuered it?

If it so seeme good to you master.

What if he neither nod to it, not no [...] from it. consen [...] nor deny.

He will doe one of them. one of the two feare not.

Gisbert, Hubert.

HOe, hoe, Hubert the best of my fellows, of my only companion. th [...] chiefe of my compa­nions.

Who calls me?

I, I meet you [...]ery [...]tly. you offer your selfe to me very fitly.

What businesse [is it?] Tel [...] me quickly.

Whither haste you?

To the wine-tauerne.

What will you doe there?

I goe to call. fetch [our] schoole-master. ma­ster home.

Is he in the wine-tauerne?

We beleeue him to be there. he is there.

With whom went hee thi­ther?

I know nothing. not. They are trifles which you doe. are about, [or you but trifle.]

Yea, I earnestly de­sire of you. I require of you an earnest busin [...]sse.

I will not refuse if there be leasure I can be at leasures but I cannot there cannot be any leasure. tend now.

It shall not be long; I pray you [see] lest. that you goe not any whither.

What will you? tell me in a word.

That you interpret, viz. tell me the meaning of these tables. expound vnto me this letter.

Giue [me it] that I may quick­ly run ouer it.

Take it.

These letters are sealed. This letter is sealed.

I know it, open it. vnseale it.

Dost thou bid, or causest thou. Doe you bid me to vnseale. open other folks. other mens letters?

They are not other mens. My father writ them.

what then after. And what then?

And hee commanded mee to carry them. to beare them to my master.

very well.I heare.

Now I feare euilly to my selfe. I am much affraide, blame [or ac­cuse] me. lest these letters blame [or ac­cuse] me. complain of me.

What haue you done?

Nothing that I know.

Why then doe you say, lest they complaine of you?

Because my father said, them to [...]e let­ters of commen­dations. that they were letters of c [...]men­dations, where I suspect fraud to be vn­der. to be some fraud.

You say that which is like to be true.

Looke vpon the letter. letters quickly. They will disclose or make knowen. dispatch all the matter vnto vs.

Hearken. Hermane Ceratine saith s [...]lutation. sendeth hearty commendations to Eualdus Gallus. Hee that de­liuereth you these letters i [...] most deare vnto me, because he is my sonne; I pray you study. seeke to amend him, lest I begin to hate him, for his [Page 31] naughtinesse, I can doe no good by words, or by by blaming rebu­king or chiding. I haue made ex­perienc [...]. I haue tryed. Wherefore I ear­nestly pray you, that you would finish or accomplish. effect the matter with stripes. with rods. Take heed you do not any thing hurt. you doe not hurt his boanes, I do easily suffer. I can easily endure that you should beat his skin and his flesh. Farewell.

Truely I did coniecture so.

These are the letters of Bellerophon. Bellerophons letters.

They shall not be [so] long.

What will you doe?

I will change them.

Will not this sauor [or be felt] a little. bee knowne to our master?

Not at all. He knoweth not the hand of my father. my fathers hand.

But how will you change it?

Will you heare?

If you shall say briefly.

Hermane Ceratine sendeth commendations to Eualdu [...] Gallus. Hee that deliuereth you these letters, is most dear [Page] vnto me, because he is [my] sonne. I pray you, that you begin not to hate him for the fraude of others. If he [...]hall of­fend any thing study to amend him with words. If he shall in any thing offend, labour to amend him with wordes: It is much profited. you may doe much good with blaming and chiding. I haue tried him. I haue made experience. Wherfore I earnestly intreat you, that you do not effect the thing with rods. that you would not doe it with rods. It is so farre off that I would haue his bones to be hurt, that indeed I cannot easily suffer his skin or flesh to be beaten. Farewel.

[It is] an artificiall change, as the Gods may loue me well. Or let God so loue me as. In very deed an artificiall change. But take heed lest ei­ther of them come to know of [or heare of] the fraud or legerdemaine. know the im­posture.

These things shall be a care to me.I will haue a care of these things.

You haue hindered or kept me back detained mee o­uer long?

Run so much more swiftly now. quicklier now.