The grammar warre. Or The eight parts of speach, noune, pronoune. verbe, participle, aduerbe, coniunction, preposition, interiection, altogether by the eares Together with the lamentable burning of a petty schoole.

A Lamentation vpon the Con••lagration of the Mu∣ses Habitation: Or a Discription of the burning of a Pettie Schoole.

VVHat heat of learning kindl'd your desire, You Muses sons to set your house on fire? What loue of Honor in your breast did turne, Those sparkes of Vertue into flames to burne? Or wa'st some higher cause, were the hot God's ••hoebus and Vulcan, (old friends) now at ods? What ere the cause was, sure ill was th'intent: Which all the Muses iustly may lament. ••ut aboue all ••or name sake Polaehimney, ••ewayles the downefall, of this learned Chimney. Where you might see, without or speech or sence: ••ay the sad ashes, of an Accedence. What Numbers heere of Nounes to wracke did goe? ••s Domus Liber, and a many moe. ••woefull Case, no Sex the flames did spare, ••ach Gender, in this losse had Common share, ••••ere might you see the rufull Declinations, ••fifteene Pronounes and foure Coniugations.

Some Gerunds, Di, but some Do over come, And some with heate & smoke, are quite strook Dum. Supines, lay gasping vpward, voyd of sences. The Moodes were mad to see Imperfect Tences. Aduerbes of Place, threw downe their lofty stories: As Vbi, Ibi, Illic, Intus, Foris. Coniunctions, so disioyn'd, as you would wonder: Noe cupling scarse, but it was burnt asunder. The Praepositi••ns, knew not where to bee. Each Interiection, cry'd Heu woe is mee.

FOr the Due ioyning of the thinges againe, A Neighbour called Qui mihi, came amaine. Else sure the Fire, had into flames so turn'd: Gods, Men, Months, Rivers, Winds, and all had burn't Now gan the flames the Hetroclites to cumber: And poore Supellex, lost his Plurall number. Of Verbs, scarce had escaped one of twenty: Had there not bin by chance As in presenti.