17541647Curat. A most singuler and choyce Epithat,

17561649Peda. He draweth out the thred of his verbositie, finer

17571650then the staple of his argument. I abhorre such phanatticall

17581651phantasims, such insociable and poynt deuise companions,

17591652such rackers of ortagriphie, as to speake dout fine, when he

17601653should say doubt; det, when he shold pronounce debt; d e b t,

17611654not det: he clepeth a Calfe, Caufe: halfe, haufe: neighbour

17621655vocatur nebour; neigh abreuiated ne: this is abhominable,

17631656which he would call abbominable, it insinuateth me of in-

17641657famie: ne inteligis domine, to make frantique lunatique?

17661658Curat. Laus deo, bene intelligo.

17671659Peda. Bome boon for boon prescian, a litle scratcht, twil serue.

17701661Curat. Vides ne quis venit?

17711662Peda. Video, et gaudio.

17721663Brag. Chirra.

17731664Peda. Quari Chirra, not Sirra?

17741665Brag. Men of peace well incontred.

17751666Ped. Most millitarie sir salutation.

17761667Boy. They haue been at a great feast of Languages, and

17771668stolne the scraps.

17781669Clow. O they haue lyud long on the almsbasket of wordes.

17791670I maruaile thy M. hath not eaten thee for a worde, for thou

17801671art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus:

17811672Thou art easier swallowed then a flapdragon.

17831673Page. Peace, the peale begins.

17841674Brag. Mounsier, are you not lettred?

17851675Page. Yes yes, he teaches boyes the Horne-booke: What

17861676is Ab speld backward with the horne on his head?

17871677Poda. Ba, puericia with a horne added.

17881678Pag. Ba most seely Sheepe, with a horne: you heare his (learning.

17901679Peda. Quis quis thou Consonant?

17911680Pag. The last of the fiue Vowels if You repeate them,

17921681or the fift if I.

17931682Peda. I will repeate them: a e I.

17941683Pag. The Sheepe, the other two concludes it o u.

17951684Brag. Now by the sault wane of the meditaranium, a