Princeps rhetoricus or Pilomachia· ye combat of caps. Drawn forth into arguments, general and special. In usum Scholæ Masonensis : et in gratiam totius auditorii mercurialis.

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Princeps rhetoricus or Pilomachia· ye combat of caps. Drawn forth into arguments, general and special. In usum Scholæ Masonensis : et in gratiam totius auditorii mercurialis.
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[Mason, John, of Cambridge].
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London :: Printed for H.R. at the three Pigeons in S. Pauls Church-yard,
1648.
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Universities and colleges -- Curricula -- Humor -- Early works to 1800.
Satire, English -- 17th century.
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"Princeps rhetoricus or Pilomachia· ye combat of caps. Drawn forth into arguments, general and special. In usum Scholæ Masonensis : et in gratiam totius auditorii mercurialis." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89633.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.

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SCEN. IV.

EX Improviso, abruptly breaks in Sir Shone, Molestus Interpella∣tor Curiae, in a great fume, impatient of longer attendance, a blunt, unbred, rude, insulse Scholar, and as roughly entertain'd by the Guards-man: they chop Logick at staves end dilemmati∣cally; Here I can have ye, & there; but pates find mediums. Ma∣ster Keeper assaults the Parson, Argumento Baculino, with Halberd Eloquence, the Parson indoctrinates the Keeper with Crab-tree Logick, but is foyled at his owne weapon; till Misrule, and the Schoole-monitor, his Fratres fraterrimi, complotters and sworn partners, step in to his rescue; by whose provision and request, his Petition is heard, registred, and deliberated on, but deferred till the next Court Sessions Mercuriall.

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The humble Partishon of Sir Shone of Wales, in formâ paperis following.

BE it knowne to all and some, that her hath a partishon in her packets, ad hunc venarabilem collegium, propter facere Huc and Cry, post cappum sumum (misere defunctum, & lostum) per omnes Chamberos, Studies, & Corneros. And also her desires to

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enter her Actions, or rather her Passions in te Law, for a scire facias, through te six mercuriall classes, with a non est Inventus, as touch∣ing her Pileus; and a Quare Latitat, amongst all her cozen Scholers, and her shall be pound to pray, for her six venerable said Monitors while her may, for ever and a day, and longer too, when her hath nothing else to do.

The Morall Argument of this Act, for want of roome, wee passe by.

The Authors, like so many flourie fields, Campi Rhetorici, were Tacitus, Justine, Justinian, Quintilian, Eutopia Mori, Atlantis Verulamei, Apuleius: The Greeks, Homer, Aristophanes, Plu∣tarch, Zenophon de Cyropaedia, Longinus, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Aristotles Rhetorick, Plato, Aeschylus, &c. The language chiefly Greek; but Auditorii gratiâ, translated here and rhere into English.

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