A battle-door for teachers & professors to learn singular & plural you to many, and thou to one, singular one, thou, plural many, you : wherein is shewed ... how several nations and people have made a distinction between singular and plural, and first, in the former part of this book, called The English battle-door, may be seen how several people have spoken singular and plural...: also in this book is set forth examples of the singular and plural about thou, and you, in several languages, divided into distinct Battle-Doors, or formes, or examples; English Latine, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriack, Arabick ... and how emperors and others have used the singular word to one, and how the word you came first from the Pope, likewise some examples, in the Polonian, Lithuanian, Irish and East-Indian, together with ... Swedish, Turkish ... tongues : in the latter part of this book are contained severall bad unsavory words, gathered forth of certain school-books, which have been taught boyes in Enland ... / George Fox, John Stubs, Benjamin Farley.

A Narration how the TURKS and PERSIANS use the words Thee and Thou in their Communications.

TAmerlane, the Emperor of Persia speaks Thou and Thee to Bajazet the Emperor of the Turks: and Bajazet speaks thou and thee to Tamerlane, as may be seen in the Turkish Hystory, Pag. 220. Amurah also the Emperour speaks Thou and thee to Scanderbeg Prince of Epirus: and Scanderbeg the Prince writes thou and thee to Amurah again; and calls his Speech modest and temperate, Pag. 301. the aforesaid Amurah the Emperor speaks thou and thee to his Son, Pag. 330. The Emperor Bajazet his son speaketh thee and thou in his Speech to his Brother, as in Pag. 442. The Emperor useth thou in his Speech again to his Son, Pag. 493. A Souldier to the Emperor speaketh thou and thee, Pag. 494. Gazelles an Aegyptian Commander speaks thou to the Emperor Selymus, Pag. 546. Solyman the Emperor, entitled the Magnificent, writes thou and thee to the Great Master of the Rhodes, P. 571. The Governor of Rhodes writeth thou again to the Emperors Commander in chief, Pag. 574. A Souldier speaks thou to the Emperor solyman, Pag. 638. A Jew speaketh thou to the Turkish Admiral, Pag. 661. One of the Kings of Affrica useth thee and thou in his Speech to Charles the Emperor, Pag. 661. Solyman the Emperor useth thou and thee in his Letter to Pope Paulus. P. 766. But Pope Clement in his Letter to Sigismund the Emperor writeth wee when it was sent from him onely: and you, when it was sent to Sigismund the Emperor only, as in the 1081 page may be seen: so the first that gave you to one was the Pope; whom the Emperors, Kings, Princes, Dukes, Earles, Lords, Judges, justices, priests, and people have follow'd him into a ly, flattery, and deceit, who say you to one, and so have lost their understanding.

To say You to many, and thou to one is the proper understanding of God, which God hath given to man, to distinguish when he speaks to one, or more then one; as to men you, to man thou: and a beast, or beasts; horse, or horses; woman or women: which Thou distinguishes, when we speak to One; and You dishinguishes, when we speak to many: So men have lost their understanding, which God hath given them to distinguish with, that speaks you to One, For who say you to one have lost their distinction in the Plural Number from the Singular, with which they should number: So, that Understanding is of God, which doth distinguish the singular from the plural, and to the Plural there is a Plural word, to the Singular a Singular word: And he that hath lost this is become a fool and Novice.

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Imprimè pour Robert Wilson, & se vendent a sa boutique a ••Enseigne de l'Aigle noir, au rue appellée St. Martins Le Grand.