The logicians school-master: or, A comment upon Ramus logick.: By Mr. Alexander Richardson, sometime of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge. Whereunto are added, his prelections on Ramus his grammer; Taleus his rhetorick; also his notes on physicks, ethicks, astronomy, medicine, and opticks. Never before published.

Loquendi

Loqui and dicere signifie the same thing, but come to be distinguished thus, because that Rhetorick to which dicere doth belong, was seen most especially

in pleading before Judges, hence they gave it that name dicere; which cometh of dico, and dico cometh of the Greek word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, which signifieth the decision of a Controversie; and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 bifariam, or as some say 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 divido, which may well be, because in pleading of controversies, they divide their speeches. Loquendi, not Ars Scribendi, for if they take it for the Orthographie of a word it is accidental; neither are the letters the same in every tongue, therefore not the same writing of them: Again, the letters may be changed, though not well, for the Hebrew letters are given with great reason, and the other are taken from them: if they take writing as general as speak∣ing, it is the same with Grammer: now the cause of it was this, Man receiveth into his understanding the notions of things, these notions are expressed and made known from him to another man by words, now because man was not to live alwayes, neither by reason of the distance of place could speak unto every one, hence was the necessity of writing.