can then no more hinder their growth then their play doth but rather further it when they sit at their ease besides that continuall experience doth confute this errour Spoud Bee it so as you say yet this is a receiued opinion that it will cause them to hate the schoole when they should be set to it in good earnest Phil. Nay rather it is clean contrarie for being acquainted with the schoole so young and with the sport and pleasure which they finde amongst other children there and also being kept from feeling the ouer much sweetnesse in play it shall cause them to loue to delight in the schoole continually and to goe on without any repining or so much as thinking of being away from the schoole wheras they being nuzled vp in play abroad are very hardly reclaimed and weaned from it to sticke to their bookes indeede Spoud But yet it is thought that they can get but little learning then being so very young and therefore there is the smaller losse of a yeere or two at that time Phil. The losse will bee found in the end although it be indeed in the beginning For looke how many yeeres they lose in the beginning if they bee apt so many in the end they will be shorter of such of their fellowes who are but of their owne age and applied all alike being of like capacitie Therefore as wee will not let them lose a day when they growe towards the Vniuersitie so neither should wee when they are young but preuent this losse and take the time in the beginning Spoud We see notwithstanding some very long ere euer they begin who then goe forward with it the fastest of all Phil. It is true in some pregant wits and who are industrious but you shall â—â—â—ue others as blockish and dull Also for those if they goe so fasâ— in the rudiments and first grounds how much more would they doe so at the same time in better studies Neither can they haue halfe that learning in all things which others of like age and aptnesse haue who haue been well applyed from their first yeeres Spoud I yeelde to all which you haue saide in this behalfe and I doe see plainely the exceeding benefites that must needes come hereby especially in gaining of time if they may bee entred in that playing manner and go forwarde with alacritie and contention and moreouer so that they be not any way ouerloaded or discouraged nor yet in dangered by the ouer charging of their wits and memories Phil. For that take you no feare you shall God willing see the euidence of that and a plaine direction in euerie Chapter how to proceede in that easie and playing kinde Therefore if you be satisfied in this let vs come vnto the next point Spoud Very gladly sir for I long to heare this how you would teach your childe being so young to read so soone and readily Phil. I like the point well proceed according to your order CHAP. III. How the Schollar may be taught to reade English speedily to fit him the sooner and better for the Grammar schoole Spoud BEfore we enter into this question yet let me put you in minde of one thing which doth much trouble mee concerning this very matter That it seemeth to mee an vnreasonable thing that the Grammar schooles should bee troubled with teaching A. B. C. seeing it is so great a hinderance to those paines which wee should take with our Grammar schollars for whom wee are appointed Because it dooth take vp almost one halfe of our time and thereby dooth depriue vs of a chiefe part of the fruite of our labours especially when our mindes are so distracted and our thoughts carried so manie wayes to doe good to all The very little ones in a towne in most countrey townes which are of any bignesse would require a whole man of themselues to be alwaies hearing poasing and following them so as they ought to bee applyed for continuall applying in a right course is in this and all other parts of learning aboue all other meanes And young ones by a little slaking our hands run faster backe then euer they went forward as boates going vp the streame Besides it is an extreame vexation that wee must bee toyled amongst such little pettyes and in teaching such matters whereof we can get no profit nor take any delight in our labours Phil. I am well inured with this grieuance which you speake of and doe knowe by long experience your complaint to bee too iust in this behalfe I my selfe haue complained of it manie a time For it were much to be wished that none might be admitted to the Grammar schooles vntill they were able to reade English as namely that they could reade the new Testament perfectly and that they were in their Accidences or meet to enter into them There might bee some other schoole in the towne for these little ones to enter them It would help some poore man or woman who knew not how to liue otherwise and who might do that well if they were rightly directed Also it would be such an ease to all Grammar Schoolemasters as they might doe much more good in their places Wherefore all such Schoolemasters who are incumbred with this inconuenience are not onely to wish but also to labour to haue it reformed in their seuerall schooles Yet notwithstanding where it cannot be redressed it must be borne with wisdome and patience as an heauy burden Patience shall make it much more light And therefore euery one is to doe his best indeauour to know how to make it most easie if it do lie vpon him Moreouer seeing we purpose God willing to goe through all the whole course of learning and also sith our labour is to finde out the meanes whereby to make the way plaine to traine vp euerie childe from the verie first entraunce into learning as was sayde vntill wee haue brought him vnto the Vniuersitie we cannot omit any point which may tend vnto the same much lesse the first steppe of all For a child well entred is halfe made according to that Prouerbe Principium dimidium totius The foundation well layd the building must needs goe forward much more happily This is specially true in learning wherein children feeling a sweetnesse in the beginning are very much incouraged as daily experience will manifest to euery one Spoud I see well the necessitie of vndergoing this burden in those places where remedie cannot be had without greater inconueniences And therefore sith that necessity hath no lawe nor for my selfe I knowe no meanes hâ—w to be freed from it I pray you let vs returne againe vnto the point and let mee still intreat of you your best direction to make this burden so light as may bee This is a thing worth the diligence of all who must be imploied amongst little ones to wit to teach children how to read well and to
courses from the beginning I doe assure my selfe that I had done ten times more good and my whole life had beene full of much sweete contentment in regard of that which it hath bin Although my labours haue neuer been vtterly vnprofitable but that I haue still sent forth for euery yeere some vnto the Vniuersities and they approoued amongst the better sort of those which haue come thither yet this hath been nothing to that good which I might vndoubtedly haue done Spoud Sir I am perswaded that you speake as you thinke and therefore I doe grow into greater hope that you hauing had so much experience of the griefe in the one and ioy in the other will be more compassionate of me and more ready also to impart your experiments with me to make me partaker of your comfort Phil. For communicating vnto you for your helpe and comfort what God hath made knowne vnto me I take it to be my dutie We all of vs know the danger of hiding our talent or keeping backe our debt when the Lord hauing giuen vs abilitie doth call vpon vs to paie it Spoud I thank God vnfainedly good sir for this harty affection which I doe finde in you and for this readinesse to communicate with mee the fruites of your trauells You shall see I hope that I shall receiue them with like alacritie and thankfulnesse and bee as ready to employ them to the best to doe my vttermost seruice in my place and calling hereafter So that although my first beginnings haue been small through ignorance of better courses yet I trust my after fruits shall much increase Hereby my last dayes shall prooue my best and make some amends for that which is past and also my newe comforts shall sweeten all the remainder of my life and make mee likewise to forget the daies that are past How true is that Prouerbe of wise Salomon that heauinesse in the heart of man doth bring it down but a good word doth reioice it You haue reuiued my heart and put new spirits into mee by that which you haue alreadie saide Phil. The Lord will reuiue you I hope and all of vs also who labour in this toyling kinde by causing vs to finde more â—ound fruit and pleasant content in our teaching then euer yet we felt if wee will but set our selues to seeke of him and readily impart our seuerall experiments for the good of all if withall we will receiue thankfully and cheerefully put in practice those gracious helpes of so many learned men which he in this last age of the world hath afforded aboundently aboue all former times very many whereof lie vtterly hid and vnknowne to the greatest sort vnto this day And that partly thorow lacke of care and conscience to doe that good which we might and ought in our places partly thorow extreame vnthankfulnesse neglecting the rich giftes of the Lord so plentifully powred downe from heauen vpon vs to leaue the world more without excuse But as for mine own selfe all that I can promise is onely my studie and desire to doe you and all other the greatest good that euer I shall be able and hereunto we haue all bound our selues If I knowe anie thing wherein I haue or you may receiue benefit I acknowledge it wholly where it is due euen to him who giueth liberally to all who seeke him aright and casteth no man in the teeth And resting vpon his rich bounty for a further supply if you shall propound in order the particular points wherein you would wish my aduise I shall very willingly goe on with you and acquaint you with all things which hitherto I haue learned in all my search and more hereafter as his wisdome shall adde vnto me Spoud I reioice in your confidence and wish that so it may bee In the meane time I like well of your motion of going through in order the principall matters of difficultie If therfore you shall thinke meete I shall reduce all to certaine heads which a friend of mine shewed vnto me of late set downe in a certaine Table which it may bee that your selfe haue seene Phil. Let mee heare what was contained in it and then I shall soone answere you vvhether I haue seene it or no. Spoud There was contained in it a briefe summe of sundrie particular benefits which may bee brought to Grammar Schooles to make schollars very perfect in euerie part of good learning meet for their yeeres and that all both Masters and Schollars may proceede with ease certaintie and delight to fit all apt Schollars for the Vniuersitie euerie waie by fifteene yeeres of age Concerning which seuerall heads although it were a most happie worke if they could be attained vnto all of them beeing in my minde verie excellent and indeede the whole such a worke as must needes bring a perpetuall benefit both to Church and Common-wealth and that not onely to the present but to all succeeding ages yet that I may speake freely what I conceiue of them many of them seeme very strange vnto me And although I will not say that they are vtterly impossible yet indeede I take them to be altogether vnlikely considering the continuall paines and vexation that my selfe haue vndergone and yet could neuer come in many of them neere vnto the least part thereof Phil. By that little which you haue mentioned I take it that I haue seene the very same and for them I do not onely thinke it but also do know assuredly that by the Lords gracious assistance and blessing through constant diligence they may be all effected for that I haue knowne so much trial of al of them as is sufficient to induce any man therunto besides that they do all stand vpon plain sure grounds as I trust I am able to make euident demoÌ„stration in each particular so as any man of vnderstanding may perceiue cleerly that they may be done Neither doe I doubt but to satisfie you in euery point and to cause you to yeelde vnto the euidence hereof before wee part if you will but onely aske and still shewe mee wherein you are not satisfied Moreouer I am so verie confident herein not onely vpon mine owne reason and experience but because I haue knowne the iudgements of sundrie verie learned and experienced both Schoolemasters and others who haue beene acquainted with these selfe-same heads which you haue mentioned who though at the first reading of them they haue beene of your iudgement and haue thought as you doe yet within a quarter of an hower after that they haue taken a little triall in some of the most vnlikely and seene the reason of them haue rested fully satisfied and assured of the whole that all might bee done as standing on the like grounds And therefore I haue no cause to distrust the like successe with your selfe Spoud Sir if you shall doe this for mee I shall acknowledge my selfe to haue receiued a very great
translated so alone into the seuerall tongues of each Nation I meane verbally they might as easily if not more easily be learned in each countrey out of them as out of the English or Latine and the sense or meaning also if in euery difficult place or where the wordes seemed to be out of order it were set in the margents ouer against them The same I say for our English into which the Hebrew in most places translated verbatim doth keepe a perfect sense and might bee learned out of it Also the most absolute fulnesse of vnderstanding of the matter in our heads doth bring wordes most readily to expresse it which I haue oft tolde you of But remember this that I haue said that the verball Translations for these originals shall make the learners most cunning in the text and in the very order of the wordes of the Holy Ghost without danger of any way deprauing corrupting or inuerting one iotte or tittle though for the Latine the Grammaticall translations bee farre most profitable as we haue shewed Spoud Are these all the directions that you would giue me herein Phil. These are all which yet I know Spoud By these then it seemeth that you are fully perswaded that this holy tongue may be obtayned Phil. Yea vndoubtedly so much as shal be requisit for vs by obseruing withall those generall rules set downe for the getting of the Latine and chiefly that of making markes vnder euery hard word in each page without marring our bookes and to runne oft ouer those But herein it is necessary that I put you in minde againe of that which I admonished you of in the Greek that your schollar learne so much onely as eyther the present time requires I meane whereof he may haue good vse presently or else when he shall proceede to higher studies in the Vniuersities or to other imployments And for other speculatiue or more curious knowledge in Quiddities eyther to cut them off altogether from hindring better and more needefull studies or to reserue them to their due time and place or to leaue them onely to them who shall giue themselues wholly to these studies to be readers in the Vniuersities or for like purposes as the learning of the musick and Rhetoricall accents the Prosodia metrica and the like Spoud What is then the summe of all Phil. For them who desire to be exact Hebricians to be very perfect in the Grammar for them who desire but only the vnderstanding to haue 1 Some necessary rules and principally examples of Nounes and Verbes very readily 2 The Radices 3 Continuall vse of verball translations or others as in the Greeke 4 Oft running ouer the hardest wordes But these as all other things I write vnder correction and with submission and desire of better iudgement CHAP. XXII Of knowledge of the grounds of religion and training vp the schollars therin Spoud NOw that we haue thus gone thorough all the way of learning for whatsoeuer can bee required in the Grammar schooles and how to lay a sure foundation both for the Greeke and the Hebrew that they may bee able to goe on of themselues in all these by their owne studies it remaineth that wee come yet to one further point and which is as it were the end of all these That is how schollars may be seasoned and trained vp in Gods true Religion and in grace without which all other learning is meerely vaine or to increase a greater condemnation This one alone doth make them truely blessed and sanctifie all other their studies Moreouer they being taught herein in their youth shall not depart from it when they are old I intreat you therefore to shew me so shortly as you can how schollars maie bee taught all those things which were contained in the note As 1. To be acquainted with all the grounds of religion and chief histories of the Bible 2. So to take the Sermons at least for all the substance both for doctrines proofes vses and after to make a rehearsall of them 3. Euery one to begin to conceiue and answere the seuerall points of the Sermons euen from the lowest formes These are matters that I thinke are least thought of in most schooles though of all other they must needes bee most necessary and which our lawes and iniunctions doe take principall care for and that the schoolmasters to these ends be of sincere religion Phil. I feare indeede that it is as you say that this is ouer-generally neglected And herein shall the popish schoolemasters rise vp in iudgement against vs who make this the very chiefe marke at which they aime in all their teaching to poure in superstition at the beginning first to corrupt and deceiue the tender minds But to returne vnto the matter how they may bee thus trained vp in the feare of the Lord I shall set you downe the best manner so neere as I my selfe haue yet learned follovving the order of these particulars mentioned 1. For beeing acquainted with the grounds of religion and the principles of the Catechisme Euerie Saturdaie before their breaking vp the schoole for 〈◊〉 finishing their weeks labours and a preparatiue to the Sabbaoth let them spend halfe an howre or more in learning answering the Catechisme To this end cause euery one to haue his Catechisme to get halfe a side of a leafe or more at a time each to be able to repeate the whole The more they say at a time and the ofter they runne ouer the whole the sooner they will come to vnderstanding This must be as their parts in their Accedence In examining first your Vsher or Seniors of each fourm may heare that euery one can say Afterwardes you hauing all set before you may poase whom you suspect most carelesse 1. Whether they can answere the questions 2. In demanding euery question againe to stand a little on it to make it so plaine and easie as the least childe amongst them may vnderstand euery word which hath any hardnesse in it and the force of it Let the manner of the poasing bee as I shewed for the Accedence The more plainly the question is drawen out of the very words of the book and into the moe short questions it is diuided and also examined backeward and forward the sooner a great deale they will vnderstand it and better remember it Herein also to vse all diligence to apply euery peecevnto them to whet it vpon them to worke holy affections in them that each may learne to feare the Lord and walke in all his commandements For beeing in their hearts and practice it will be more firmly kept This also must be remembred for all that followeth 2. For the Sabbaoths and other daies when there is anie sermon cause euery one to learn somthing at the sermons 1. The very lowest to bring some notes at least 3. or 4. If they can to learne them by their owne marking if not
vehemently inueigh against it For mine owne part I doe indeed altogether dislike it more then necessity inforceth and I take it that I haue better grounds for my dislike then any one can haue to the contrary euen from those things which cannot be contradicted 1 We are to imitate the Lord himselfe who though he be iustice it selfe yet is euermore inclined vnto mercy and doth not execute the seuerity and rigour of his iustice when any other meanes can serue who if he should smite vs euen the most vigilant of vs all so oft as wee offend as many doe the children which of vs could liue 2 What father is there nay which of vs is there who is a father who would not haue our owne children rather trained vp by all louing meanes of gentle incouragement praise and faire dealing then with buffeting and blowes or continuall and cruell whipping scorning and reuiling Or which of vs could but indure to see that indignity done to our owne children before our faces Now our gouernement and correction ought to bee such as which the very parent being present I meane the wise parent might approoue and for which wee may euer haue comfort and boldenesse euen before the holy God To this we are to striue and contend alwayes vntill at length we attaine vnto it 3 Which of vs is there that would willingly liue vnder such a gouernement of any sort that our state should bee as the people vnder their taske Masters in Aegypt that we should bee smitten continually for euery little fault and labour we neuer so much to doe our duties yet still we should be beaten 4 Let euery mans experience teach whether extreamity or excesse of feare which must needes follow vpon such cruell and continuall beating and dulling doth not depriue and robbe the minde of all the helpes which reason offers So as that the minde running about that which it feares so much forgets that which it should wholly intend whereby in timorous natures you shall see some to stand as very sottes and senselesse through an apprehension of some extreame euil or by extremity of feare wheras they are otherwise as wise learned as the best Insomuch as all deuices are to be vsed to rid children of that kinde of ouerwhelming feare and sometimes correction for it when this feare is without cause and cannot be helped otherwise 5 For the schollars themselues because all things should be done in the Schoole so as to worke in the children a loue of learning and also of their teachers for that this loue is well knowne to be the most effectuall meanes to increase and nourish learning in them the fastest and also that gouernement which consists in loue is euer the firmest Now this extreame whipping all men know what a dislike it breedeth in the children both of the schoole and of all learning as that they will think themselues very happy if the parents will set them to any seruille or toyling busines so that they may keepe from schoole And also it workes in them a secret hatred of their Masters according to the sayings Quem metuunt oderint and Quem quisque odit perijsse expetit whom men doe feare with a slauish feare them they hate and wish in their hearts to see their death 6 In regard of the Masters themselues because by this milde and louing gouernement they shall both haue the hearts commendations of the children presently when they see in the Masters the affections of fathers towards them and also they will euer keepe a sweet and thankefull remembrance of them all their life long that euer when they haue occasion to speake of their Schoolemasters they will doe it with reuerence and praise God that euer they fell into the hands of such Masters whereas of the contrary they shall be sure of the secret hate and complaints of the poore children presently where they dare speake and euer after when they come at their owne liberty they will then report as they haue found and it may be farre worse So that they can neuer speake of their Master but as of a thing which they abhorre his name is as a curse in their mouthes many wishing they had neuer knowne him For that then they had beene schollars if they had not falne into the hands of so cruell Masters 7 And finally because in this louing equall milde and tender gouernement the Masters shall euer haue boldenes and comfort before the children their parents in their own consciences and before God himselfe whereas in the cruell and vnmercifull tyrannie they shall haue nothing but feare feare of the children feare of their parents feare in their owne consciences feare for the Lord who hath said that there shall be iudgement mercilesse for them who shew no mercy and so the conscience being awaked to haue nothing but feare round about except the Lord doe graunt vnfained repentance to escape thereby Spoud I know not how to answere that which you say The Lord be mercifull vnto vs all who are in this calling euen for this sinne for it is no small matter to moderate our passion and our correction When the parents and others looke for great things at our hands and we find little good and oft-times those the worst whom we would fainest haue to doe the best which of vs can herein iustifie our selues But I pray you Sir how would you haue our authority maintained and iustice executed which you so commend You would haue correction vsed and sometimes sharpness too as I obserued in your speech for your Schoolemaster How wold you haue the iustice inpraemio poena in rewards and punishments Set me downe shortly the meanes and first for rewardes and incouragemeâ—ts after for punishments CHAP. XXVIII Of Preferments and incouragements Phil. FOr the rewardes of learning by preferments and incouragements thus I finde best to doe it 1 By often elections of euery fourme in such manner as was shewed and so euer preferring the best thereby to higher places as they grow in learning 2 By gracing all the Seniors all best in each fourme both to incourage them and to prouoke their fellowes to emulate them to striue in all things to bee like vnto them and also to cause all their fellowes in all things to reuerence and preferre them both by giuing place to them and otherwise 3 By preferring or putting vp those into higher fourms who profite extraordinarily Also daily if you see good to giue higher places to them who do better vntill the other recouer their places againe by the election of the whole fourme or by their diligence 4 To vse to commend euery thing in their exercises which is well or painefully done passing ouer the lesser faults onely with a word shewing our dislike and that which is absurd with some pretty speech sharpely reprouing or disgracing their absurdity without further correction if there doe
may proceede of themselues in the Testament This cannot be so done by the interlineall or hauing the Greeke and Latine together and why How schollars of iudgement may vse the interlineall How to proceede in other Authours The benefit of such translations of some of the purest Greeke Authours Parsing in Greeke Helpes for parsing in Greeke Helpes for knowledge of the Poets How to write in Greeke purely How to write faire in Greeke Versifying in Greeke Summe of all for the Greeke CHAP. XXI HOw to get most speedily the knowledge and vnderstanding of the Hebrew Herein these branches The knowledge of the Hebrew may be the soonest gotten and why Manner of learning the Grammar and what Grammar to be vsed The getting the Hebrew Radices a chiefe helpe Manner of committing the Radices to memory Examples of helping the memory in learning the Hebrew Radices The benefit of comparing the tongues The best Epitome for learning the Radices The way might be more compendious by the rootes reduced to Classes Continuall practice of perfect verball Translations a singular helpe A Student hauing opportunity cannot be better imployed then in getting perfectly and imprinting the originals in memory The Latine Greeke and Hebrew may bee the soonest gotten by such perfect Translations in each tongue How much and what to learne in all things CHAP. XXII OF knowledge of the grounds of Religion and trayning vp schollars therein Herein these heads Schollars are to be trained vp in Religion Religion most neglected in Schooles The Popish Schoolemasters shall rise vp in iudgement against all who neglect it Teaching the Catechisme and when Examining the Catechisme Taking notes of Sermons Setting downe all the substance of the Sermons in the higher fourmes Manner of noting for helping vnderstanding and memory To translate the Sermon into Latine or to reade it into Latine ex tempore Examining Sermons Repetition or rehearsall of the Sermons Benefit of strict examination of Sermons How the repetition may be done readily How to goe through the History of the Bible and the manner of examining it Obiections answered How to teach the schollars ciuility CHAP. XXIII HOw to vnderstand and remember anie Morall matter Herein these things A principall helpe of vnderstanding to cause children to vnderstand and remember by questions An example hereof Helpe in priuate reading by questions CHAP. XXIIII SOme things necessarie to be knowen for the better attaining of all the parts of learning mentioned before as 1. How the Schoolemaster should be qualified Herein these branches The Schoolemaster ought to be sufficient to direct his Schollars or tractable and willing to be directed The Schoolemaster must be painfull and constant of conscience of God He must cast off all other studdies at schoole times He must not post ouer the trust to others The Schoolemaster must be of a louing disposition to incourage all by praise and rewards He ought to be a godly man and of good cariage To seeke to gaine and maintaine authority and how CHAP. XXV OF the Vsher and his office Herein these particulars An Vsher necessary in all greater Schooles Euils of lacke of an Vsher. The Master burdened with all is as the Husbandman ouercharged with more then he can compasse Supply by Schollars not sufficient Sufficiency of the Vsher. The Vsher to be at the Masters command To be vsed with respect The Vsher not to meddle with correcting the highest Schollars The Vsher to vse as little correction as may be vnlesse in the Masters absence The Vshers principall imployment with the younger to traine them vp for the Master To preuent all inconueniences by the Vsher. CHAP. XXVI HElpes in the Schoole besides the Vsher. Seniors in each fourme Particular helpe a Subdoctor in place of the Vsher or where one Vsher is not sufficient Sorting the fourmes so many into a fourme as may be Choise and matching each forme equally that all may sit as matches Benefits of this election This equall matching all a chiefe meanes to make the Schoole Ludus Lâ—terarius CHAP. XXVII OF gouernment and of authority in Schooles Herein these branches Gouernment the helpe of helps Authority the top of gouernment Authority how to be maintained The Masters and Vshers to be as liuing laws to maintaine their authority Authority maintained by most strict execution of iustice by rewards and punishments Incouraging vertue discouraging vice to maintaine authority The euils of neglect hereof and of partiality Authority to be maintained by a continuall demonstration of conscience and loue to the schollars By being Presidents of all vertue Extream seuerity whipping to be auoided in schooles and all meanes vsed to preuent it Reasons Difficulty for the Master to moderate his passions oftentimes if he striue to doe good CHAP. XXVIII OF Preferments and incouragements Herein these particulars Incouragements to be by these meanes Often Elections Countenancing and gracing the Seniors and all the best and most painfull Putting vp into higher fourmes Giuing places Commending euery thing well done Caueat in commending Disputation for the victorship Praemia to be giuen to the two Victors Office of the Victors for their praemia Solemne examination to bee made once euerie yeere Exercises to be prouided against that time To keepe their daily exercises faire written in bookes to try their profiting by comparing with the former A course of examination to be appointed and the same first to be performed by the Masters and Vshers after by others not satisfied All dooing well to bee praised the best specially graced Benefits of this set solemne examination All Parents to haue notice before such examinations To labour by all meanes to worke a conscience in all the Schollars to do all of dutie and loue to God and how Some excellent sentences to be oft inculcated to worke in the Schollars a loue of learning CHAP. XXIX OF execution of iustice in Schooles by punishments Herein these particulars To punish vnwillingly To proceede by degrees in punishing A note which may be tearmed the black Bill of principall vse and most auaileable in punishing reforming Manner of the blacke Bill to depriue all chiefe offenders of the benefit of play daies To cause all such to knowe aforehand what to looke for To view the formes before play and to separate all the disobedient and vnworthy to be left to their taskes Care that their taskes be strictly exacted Notorious offenders or stubborne boies to sit so many dayes vntill that they shew good tokens of amendment Benefit of this punishment strictly obserued and why Correction with rodde to be vsed more seldome and chiefly for terror Caueats in correcting Manner of correcting the stubborne and vnbroken Not to suffer any to goe away in their stubbornnesse To be wary to auoide all smiâ—ing or hurting the children Caueat of threatning That the Maister doe not abase himselfe to struggle with any stubborne boy To auoide all furious anger and chaâ—ing How correction should euer be taken Sparing the rodde where necessitie requireth is to