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CHAP. VIII.
Of Construction; how to make all the waie thereof most easie and plaine.
WEll then (good sir) now that you haue thus farre forth directed mee, how to lay so sure a foundation, for my schollars to build vp∣on; I doubt not but you can indeed guide me forward, how they may build vpon it as speedily & hap∣pily, both for their construing, parsing, and making La∣tine.
To begin therfore with construction, which is the first thing that our children enter into, after their Accedence, and Rules: I desire greatly to heare of you those things which you affirme may be done by schollars; and wherby all the way of construction may be made so easie. As name∣ly, that children should bee able to take their lectures of themselues, truely and perfectly; and likewise with vnder∣standing vpon sure grounds: or at least to do it with a very little help of their Masters, in such places where they doubt. So the rest which were mentioned in the note: as that they should be able to construe, both in propriety of words, and also according to the right sense and meaning. To do this at any time, in all that which they haue learned, to con∣strue out of a translation in English, as out of the Latine it selfe.
These things, doe iustly seeme strange vnto mee; be∣cause I am faine to giue euery lecture my selfe: or if I ap∣point the fourmes aboue to giue them; yet I am compelled to heare the giuing of them. And so I haue as great a trou∣ble,