An anatomical lecture of man, or, A map of the little world, delineated in essayes and characters by Samuell Person ...

A Grammarian.

IS one that can spell his destiny; as well as words, yea, and he can spell it by the accents; He puts on mans birth an Asperate; and on tender Infan∣cy he puts a Lene; Mans youth and man∣hood will have an Accuit; Old age will have a Circumflex when they bend; and death at the end of all will have a Grave. A Grammarian is an utter ene∣my to Barbarisme and Solacisme, he is a very orderly man, he puts all things in method and order, he laies the foun∣dation of tongues, he is a punctual man and minds all his stops, he uses more then Lypsian curiosity in his pronuncia∣tion, which other Nations deride; He puts all things into good Syntax; and surely he is a peaceable man, for he is all for concord; A Gramarian would have Women to be Supines, and himself to be in the Genitive case, in Casu gignendi, if he be one of Pluto's Troops, or be skill'd in Ovids de Arte Amandi; all books

that are not punctual about Orthogra∣phy, nor the Language not linked with the Cords of good Syntax, whose Sen∣tences are as Nero said Senaca's was, to make ropes without sand; These Books he saith, deserve to be put in Pantagruells Library, or bound with Tartaretus de modo cacandi,

A Grammarian whose Art, viz. Gram∣mitica, consists of four Pillours, First, Orthography; Secondly, Etymology; Thirdly, Syntax; Fourthly, Prosodia: First, For Orthography, Cato's discern∣ing-eye, could not descry a knot, sooner then he will perceive his Orthogra∣phy corrupted; Secondly, for his Ety∣mology, he will slice words in twain, and mince them so long, until he finds out the root he diggs for, he ab∣stracts all compounds, and at last he comes to Simples, he runs from one thing to another (as the Pythagoreans did to find a Deity) from whence came this word from, that from whence that, un∣till he comes to the Theme and Radix he trases words; And for Syntax, whoso∣ever doth not tye his speech with its tyes, he wishes a rope were about his neck, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and hanged within the

Letter II which is a figure of a pair of Gallows, neither doth he ever abide to see womans manuscripts, and that which would break Prisians Head, will break his Heart; The last part or Pillar upon which his art depends on his Prosodia; and here he speaks sometimes in a grave tone, sometimes he is an Asper, some∣times a Lene, and he has sometimes a rough Spirit, Spiritus Asper, sometimes of a mild Spirit, Spiritus Lenis, yea to conclude, he is part of a Musitian, for he keeps his time, and scans words.