Corderius dialogues translated grammatically For the more speedy attaining to the knowledge of the Latine tongue, for writing and speaking Latine. Done chiefly for the good of schooles, to be used according to the direction set downe in the booke called Ludus literarius, or The grammar-schoole.

The 8. Dialogue.

Sonera. Villaticus.

WHere * 1.1 is thy eldest brother now?

V.

He is gone * 1.2 to warre.

S.

What sayest thou? * 1.3 to warre!

V.

* 1.4 It is even so.

S.

* 1.5 So he e 1.6 hath then bidden farewel * 1.7 to learning.

V.

* 1.8 He began to be weary of learning a good while agoe.

S.

Why so?

V.

I know not, but because he would live * 1.9 more at his pleasure.

S.

How did [his] father * 1.10 per∣mit him?

V.

What? canst thou thinke * 1.11 that he did permit him? [my] father be∣ing l 1.12 absent, my mother being against it, m 1.13 he went.

S.

O miserable young man!

V.

Yea truely most miserable.

S.

What will he doe?

V.

[He will doe] that, which others who follow that kind of life, to wit,

he will spoyle, he will * 1.14 take by violence, he will * 1.15 play at dice, he will drinke, o 1.16 he will follow * 1.17 whores.

S.

Is this the life of soul∣diers?

V.

Altogether.

S.

* 1.18 How knowest thou that?

V.

I heard it of late, of [my] father, when we supped.

M.

To what end did he q 1.19 speake of such things?

V.

He taught us, * 1.20 that nothing was more certaine then to feare God, who keepeth little ones, and * 1.21 leadeth them in by little & little into the right way.

S.

Also our master himselfe doth admonish us oftentimes, concerning those matters.

V.

We ought to be so much more * 1.22 carefull, that we love our parents & Ma∣sters most dearely,* 1.23 whose r 1.24 diligence God doth use for our s 1.25 instruction.

S.

God grant we may performe to both of them [that] which he doth command in his law.

V.

He graunt so.

S.

* 1.26 I beseech him to graunt so.

Notes

• * 1.1

  thy brother greatest by birth.
• * 1.2

  into war-fare.
• * 1.3

  into war-fare.
• * 1.4

  The ma••ter is so.
• * 1.5

  So therefore he &c.
• e 1.6

  hath left his book.
• * 1.7

  to letters.
• * 1.8

  Satie••y, or fulnes, or wearines of lear∣ning had catched him long agoe.
• * 1.9

  more freely.
• * 1.10

  let him goe.
• * 1.11

  him to have given him leave.
• l 1.12

  away, or from home.
• m 1.13

  he went on his iourney.
• * 1.14

  snatch, or ravine.
• * 1.15

  play with a Dye.
• o 1.16

  give himselfe to whordome.
• * 1.17

  harlots.
• * 1.18

  from whence.
• q 1.19

  tell, or shew.
• * 1.20

  nothing to be.
• * 1.21

  leadeth in them.
• * 1.22

  carefull by so much more.
• * 1.23

  that we have our parents deare, and (our) masters.
• r 1.24

  labour, or helpe.
• s 1.25

  institution.
• * 1.26

  I pray he grant so.