Ortho-epia Gallica Eliots fruits for the French: enterlaced vvith a double nevv inuention, vvhich teacheth to speake truely, speedily and volubly the French-tongue. Pend for the practise, pleasure, and profit of all English gentlemen, who will endeuour by their owne paine, studie, and dilligence, to attaine the naturall accent, the true pronounciation, the swift and glib grace of this noble, famous, and courtly language.

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Ortho-epia Gallica Eliots fruits for the French: enterlaced vvith a double nevv inuention, vvhich teacheth to speake truely, speedily and volubly the French-tongue. Pend for the practise, pleasure, and profit of all English gentlemen, who will endeuour by their owne paine, studie, and dilligence, to attaine the naturall accent, the true pronounciation, the swift and glib grace of this noble, famous, and courtly language.
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Eliot, John.
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London :: Printed by [Richard Field for] Iohn VVolfe,
1593.
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French language -- Conversation and phrase books -- English -- Early works to 1800.
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"Ortho-epia Gallica Eliots fruits for the French: enterlaced vvith a double nevv inuention, vvhich teacheth to speake truely, speedily and volubly the French-tongue. Pend for the practise, pleasure, and profit of all English gentlemen, who will endeuour by their owne paine, studie, and dilligence, to attaine the naturall accent, the true pronounciation, the swift and glib grace of this noble, famous, and courtly language." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A21218.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 27, 2024.

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The vprising in the morning. Chap. 1.

WHat boy, slepest thou villain? vp vp: I shall vvake thee by and by vvith a good cudgell.

I rise sir.

What a clocke is it?

It is six a clocke.

Giue me my greene veluet breeches.

Which?

It is all one, my round red sattin ones.

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Giue me a cleane shirt first.

Stay sir, till I aire it at the fire.

Brush vvell my hat and my cloke.

Make cleane my shooes.

Reach me my blacke Sattin doublet, for I vvill vveare it vvith my erimsin veluet veni∣tians.

There be your breeches, your doublet, and your shirt, sir.

Thou hast brought me a smocke villaine, thou knowest not what thou doest.

Pardon me sir if it please you, I am de∣ceiued, it is my mistresse smocke.

VVretchlesse boy thou wilt make me smell of the smocke all to day and to

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morrow.

There is your shirt sir.

VVhere be my netherstocks?

VVhere be my shooes?

There they are sir.

VVill you weare your single-soled shooes to day?

No, no, I vvill vveare my shooes of double and three soles.

VVhat wether is it abroad?

It is very faire vvether.

Giue me then my pumpes and my pantofles: but where are my sockes?

I go to seeke them.

Go fetch me the shooing horne.

I haue hurt my foot, I must go slip-shood.

VVhere hast thou layd my girdle and my garters?

There they are in the window behind the looking glasse.

Helpe me to

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tie my points.

Bring a bason of faire vvater to vvash my hands, face and mine eyes.

The towell to drie my hands.

Here sir, there is one.

Now that I am drest, I am redie to go to breake-fast.

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