THe Action of any thing, is a Verb, as To Love; a Verb (in Latine) endeth principally in re, as Amare, or in i, as Dignari: its other end­ings are Nine, all Ten set down in that called the Infini­tive Mood, but is (indeed) the Kingdom of the Verb, and the Ten endings are its principalities, expressing the Action of the Noun so amply as she (in honor) can.

There are four Families of Verbs, each known of w [...]at Family [...]t is by the Vowel long or short before the [...]a [...]d re or i, A [...], The 1st. Family hath [...], long-before re and i, as Amare, Dignari. The 2d. Family hath e, long before re and i, as Habere, Tueri. The 3d. Family hath e, short before re and i, as Legere, Gradi [...] The 4th. Family hath i long before re and i, as Audire, Orini.

There is no Infinitive Mood, for the Verb is a pious Queen, clearly free from all Moodish humours and per­son, for person is prince of Nouns, and therefore very nonsensically called a Pronoun; and the Noun hath the Indicative, Imperative, and potential Mood, and to force the Verb to Answer to the humour of any of his three persons singularly and plurally throughout all the Moods and Tenses, he brings Two Hundred and Sixty other endings, thereby personating the Verb, and that by barbarous cutting, dismembring, mur­dering, and patching for Verbs of the First and Third Families are personated (in the first person present­tense singular Indicative) by cutting off the Verbs Belly and Feet, and setting o-instead thereof, as Am^o|are, Lego|ere.

The same Person, Mood, and Tense, in Verbs of the 2d. and 4th. Families, are personated by cutting away the Verbs Feet, and setting o instead thereof, as Ha­be^o|re, Audi^o|re.

Yea, and by cutting off both Head and Body, all save the Feet, and adding o after the reservation, as In|e^o.

The rest of the 260 personating terminations are all personally attending each its person through ou [...] the Moods and Tenses, and that so punctually as if those terminations and these distinctions had been made toge­ther at once, and not any labour added, but great cer­tainty and delightful knowledge.

And so forth as in the Tenses.

Personating brings a Verb from her free Queens E­state, to a Noun-Verb a Servant; yea, a meer Hermo­phrodite. And yet Authors place the personating Cubs of the Nouns, Tyranny and murderous Usurpers in the Queens Throne, so that all men have taken the Feet for the Head, and not so much as taken any notice of, the Verbs Royal bounty, which she (in her Kingdome and Regency) freely bestoweth, nor of the singular benefits exacted from her in her Captivity and suffering, shew­ing our selves as if we did not at all understand the true Grounds of Speech. Let us now set the benign Queen in her Throne to lead the dance, and make the encroach­ing Personaters retire to places meet, as

Yet the Verb is not without her triumph, for she al­most as often as any Noun cometh after her, flings him forth of his Throne into what state or case she listeth, Viz. sometimes into a Genitive, as Miserere mei; or in­to a Dative, as Da mihi; or into an Accusative, as Di­lige Virtutem; or into an Ablative, as Ʋtere Virtute.

Yea, higher Triumph also, for the Verb hath the ho­nour to be Mother of the most Noble and Graceful [Page 3] Nouns, as from the Principality u. by changing the u in­to io. as of Amatu, Amatio; of Doctu, Doctio; of Le­ctu, Lectio; of Auditu, Auditio: or by changing the u for or, as of Amatu, Amator: Doctu, Doctor; Lectu, Le­ctor: Auditu, Auditor: and many by the addition of s, to the u, as Auditus, Visus, as you may see more at large in the 15th. Page of the Second Part.

By this Method, any one Sentende is sufficient exam­ple for parsing all whatsoever: As if your Word be a thing, it is a Noun; if it signifie the Action of any thing it is a Verb; if it be neither Noun nor Verb, then it is an Adjunct, the signification whereof shews what kind of Adjunct it is: do so by every Word in that or any o­ther Sentence, & it makes thee (hitherto grievous) labor and doubts in parsing, a very sport. To pleasure your self and Company, ask of what Gender are Common Nounds ending in l. Your Rule in Propria Generibus, is, in l. are Neuters: Ask again, How many common Nouns in en are Masculines; look in the Exception o­ver against that Rule, and it shews One.

The like question in any Rules in Propria Generibus, will pleasure you, and the by-standers, and instruct him whom you question; so easie and plain is every Rule and thing in this Method, that more thorough knowledge may be gained in Three Months, than in any former Grammar, in so many Years: