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SCEN 1.
The Direction.Here they sat all on the Fourme of Turues, Sir Dauid walking with a Neast of Throssells in his hand held. Brown Sapho sowing in a Samplar by them.
Sir Dauid Salomon Schoole Boyes 3 Brown Sapho.
Dau.
Sequimini, follow your Masters steps, The Bell is for
the Runner, the whetstone for the lyar, a Rod for a naughty
Boy, And the Birds be for him best sayeth his Leçon. Obnubilate
your Temples, the Plague lyeth in Phœbus his shafts,
Juniperi granis vmbra nocente et frugibus vmbræ, So ordine
quisq. suo, Come, say, Manasseth the Petit begin. Tibia dulce
canit volucrem dum decipit Auceps.
School 1.
Tib.
Dau.
Doe not think so much on Tib.
Foole.
Bia you
Rogue.
Saph.)
My sister would haue had thee by the face if She had
heard thee Asse.
1.
Tibia dulce canit.
Dau.
Now thou Pipest right, construe and peirce mee this
worde canit.
1.
Cano Canis A Dog.
Dau.
Isse? Heardst not? thy Fellowes hissed thee? Nit you
lowzie Rascall, Nit
1.
Nit, you lowzie Rascall.
Decline mee the worde (Canit) and that roundly too,
I reade you.
1.
Ka.
Dau.
Quod satis est sufficit.
1.
Volu 'crem
Dau.
Volucrem or Volu'crem, yet in this Place I do hold you
must say volúcrem not volucrem, and of same opinion was Cato
Senior the authour of this Booke, As also by his number it will
most euidently appeare so vnto you, you shall see els. Tibia
dulce canit volúcrem dum decipit Auceps.
School 2.
Mictum.
Dau.
Accelerate, Nec Mictum retine nec Comprime fortiter
Anum.
Sal.
Sir, does not the Tayle of that verse say to you, you
must not enter your croane too stiff? Sir.
Dau.
A Pretie demaund it is. Yet for these Two yeares do
you embrace Taciturnitie, Sirrha. It is so, Forward.
1.
Auceps.
Dau.
Thinkest to deceiue mee with a Dumbe Decipit? But
Forward, No difficultie now a dayes I do find in the Decipies,
Sirrha; How English you Auceps in our Faery Toung? Sirrha.
1.
A Fowler.
Dau.
Fowle haire verily hast thou. Get thee euen into the
Tonstrine, There is a groate for thee, And Amputate mee there
away thy lockes. Away be gone. You in the Gally-Gascoines
there, Come on your way I beseech you, say your Leçon. Begin
I saye.
Schoole 3.
Sacerdosiens ad Nuptius inuenit Pyrorum struem.
Dau.
Ausculta. First be it known to you before that you
this Lecture, I shall expound vnto you the whole circumstance
of the Fable by a kind of Paraphrasis as you shall conceiue mee.
For so shall you be better able, as I sayd to you, drayne inwardly
in into you the whole Pith or substantiall liquititie of
the Matter, hereafter. A certaine Parish Priest bidden furth
to a Rich man's wedding found by chaunce in his way a heape of
Peares, and the which he, in high disdaine of them, drewe furth
his whatchicall.
3.
What is a whatchicall? Præceptor.
Dau.
That you shall know the better, Sirrha, by your own
Experience of him in tyme to come, And pist vpon them.
3.
Oh ho.
Dau.
Saying, what neede I tast these Peares? when at wedding
I shall so farce my belly with christmas Pyes and venaison
Pastyes I shall neuer repent mee there for my doing so here.
Well, to proceede, when he was come to this Rich Mans howse
(For as much as you must suppose the night before he had ouer
watcht him at Mawe) He found dinner done and past before he
came, So that of necessity hauing now the whole mends in his
hands, what might this Parish Priest now done in the case
mought you Sir suppose? Mary, in a pelting chafe returning
now home, empty and hungry as he was, Antiquæ venit Canis
odossu cænæ, He was glad for to eate of those Peares, which
he had before so adspersed with the aiger Sawce of his vrine,
And gaue the Lord God of Heauen most hearty Thanks for
them. Goe, get you mee this by hearte Sirrha, And bring you
mee it by to-morrow morning transcribed word for worde and
in his own Latin Toung too furth its own Originall latine Coppie
r Acham sayes) I do promise you trewe. Away be gone.
3.
Etiam Præceptor.
Dau.
Now come on, M
r Salomon, come on your wayes (you
be a graue Philosopher M
r Salomon) Come, Now after this
Scuruie geare let vs but tast one Bolle of your wisdome. Sir,
Eloquere.
Sal.
Quamquam te, Marie fili, Annum iam audientum Cratippum,
Idq; Athenis abundare oportet præceptis Institutisq;
Philosophiæ propter summam Doctoris Autoritatem et vrbis,
quorum Alter te scientia augere potest, Altera et cæt.
Dau.
Hoa, Bung vp your voices I beseech you all, For I do
heare some comming toward vs, who be no Peripatiticks I may
well perceiue them by their Treadings, Bung vp, I saye.
Saph.
Your treadings be as you would treade vpon Egges
feare least you breake them, Sir.
Dau.
And loe they be all vpon vs now. Bung vp, I say.
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