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Scen. IV.

Ex Improviso, abruptly breaks in Sir Shone, Molestus Interpellator Curiæ, In a great fume, impatient of longer attendance, a blunt, unbred, rude, insulse Scholar, and as roughly entertain'd by the Guards-man: they chop Logick at staves end dilemmatically; Here I can have ye, & there; but pates find mediums. Master Keeper assaints the Parson, Argumento Baculino, with Halberd Eloquence, the Parson indoctrinates the Keeper with Crab-tree Logick, but is foyled at his owne weapon; till Misrule, and the Schoole-monitor, his Fratres fraterrimi, complotters and sworn partners, step in to his rescue; by whose provision and request, his Petition is heard, registred, and deliberated on, but deferred till the next Court Sessions Mercuriall.

Μελπετε μελιδιουντες Παιων μελιδουντες Παιων,
Χαιρε Σοφων Ιερφυ Ερμαικωντε Βασιλευ,
Ερμαικωντου Βασιλευ.
Των Φυλακων συ ο Αναξ,
Καθυμνεισε πας ο Φυλαξ,
Καιρε, χαιρε, Λογων, Ιερευ.

The humble Partishon of Sir Shone of Wales, in formâ paperis following.

Be it knowne to all and some, that her hath a partishon in her
pockets, ad hunc venarabiliem collegium, propter facere Hue
and Cry, post cappum sumum (misere defunctum, & lostum) per
omnes Chamberos, Studies, & Corneros. And also her desires to

enter her Actions, or rather her Passions in te Law, for a stire facias
through te six mercuriall classes, with a non est Inventus, as touching
her Plieus; and a Quare Latitat, amongst all her cozen Scholers,
and her shall be pound to pray, for her six venerable said Monitors
while her may, for ever and a day, and longer too, when her hath
nothing else to do.

The Morall Argument of this Act, for want of roome, wee passe by.

The Authors, like so many flourie fields, Campi Rhetorici, were Tacitus, Justine, Justinian, Quintilian, Eutopia, Mori, Atlantis Verulamei, Apuleius: The Greeks, Homer, Aristophanes, Plutarch, Zenophon de Cyropædia, Longinus, [illeg.]σολογιας. Aristotles Rhetorick, Plato, Æschylus, &c. The language chiefly Greek; but Auditorii gratiâ, translated here and there into English.