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<P>School-Lavves. OR, <HI>Q&V;I MIHI</HI> IN ENGLISH.</P>
<P>By <HI>J. M.</HI></P>
<Q>Train up a child in the way he &s;hould goe, and when he i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> old, he will not depart from it,
<BIBL><HI>Prov. 22.6.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<P>LONDON, Printed MDCL.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Q&V;I MIHI</HI> IN Engli&s;h.</HEAD>
<L>_WHO &s;o my Scholer do'&s;t de&s;ire to be,</L>
<L>Ob&s;erve the&s;e Laws, and I do welcome thee.</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt get up betimes, &s;oft &s;leep for&s;ake,</L>
<L>Humble thy &s;elf, and daily prayer make.</L>
<L>Thy hands mu&s;t wa&s;hed be, al&s;o thy face,</L>
<L>Thy garments trim, and head comb'd in fir&s;t place.</L>
<L>Thou mu&s;t not truant, when our School doth call;</L>
<L>Ab&s;ence in health, knows no excu&s;e at all.</L>
<L>Greet me thy Ma&s;ter, as thou pa&s;&s;e&s;t by,</L>
<L>And all thy fellow-&s;tudents orderly.</L>
<L>Sit where I bid thee, and not thence depart,</L>
<L>Till I remove thee for thy ju&s;t de&s;ert:</L>
<L>For as thou learne&s;t, &s;o mu&s;t be thy place,</L>
<L>Thy good de&s;ert &s;hall never want due grace.</L>
<L>Pen, ink, and paper, books of each degree,</L>
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<L>See the&s;e thy weapons in due po&s;ture be.</L>
<L>What I thee dictate, thou &s;halt fairly write.</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt not blur, nor blot that I indite.</L>
<L>To papers loo&s;e and torn do not commit</L>
<L>Thy exerci&s;es, which for books are fit.</L>
<L>Conn 'ore thy le&s;&s;on once and once agen.</L>
<L>Ask when thou doubt'&s;t now the&s;e, now other men.</L>
<L>Who doubts, and asketh oft, plea&s;eth me be&s;t,</L>
<L>The mo&s;t conceited &s;ure conceiveth lea&s;t.</L>
<L>Endeavour now my child, mark what I &s;ay,</L>
<L>So &s;hall it be thine own another day.</L>
<L>Attend, I &s;ay, for what will 't me avail,</L>
<L>To teach thee oft, if thou to learn &s;halt fail?</L>
<L>Thou mu&s;t not count that hard, in time &s;hall be,</L>
<L>As now thy paines, &s;o thy great dignity.</L>
<L>The earth yields not increa&s;e of flow'r or grain,</L>
<L>Vnle&s;s manured well by painfull &s;wain:</L>
<L>So without exerci&s;e thy time is lo&s;t,</L>
<L>Thy wit decaies, and all thy hopes are cro&s;st.</L>
<L>Now le&s;t thy twatling &s;hould my pat'ence wrong,</L>
<L>I give thee rules and precepts for thy tongue.</L>
<L>Do'&s;t get thy le&s;&s;'n, let not thy voice be &s;tout.</L>
<L>Do'&s;t it rehear&s;e to me, then &s;peak thou out:</L>
<L>And when thou &s;ay'&s;t, be &s;ure th' ha&s;t conn'd it well</L>
<L>'Tis very good without book to excell:</L>
<L>Let none thee prompt, for that comick fa&s;h'on,</L>
<L>Hath harmed much the learned nation.</L>
<L>If ought I ask thee, an&s;wer in &s;uch &s;ort,</L>
<L>I may approve it well, and prai&s;e thee for't.</L>
<L>Thy tongue mu&s;t not be glibb, nor yet too flow,</L>
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<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ledg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> mean mo&s;t vert'ous is, as all do know:</L>
<L>And when thou &s;peak'&s;t, &s;ee thou &s;peak'&s;t properly.</L>
<L>Both uncouth words and phra&s;e &s;hun warily.</L>
<L>Moreover if thy fellowes ought thee ask,</L>
<L>In&s;truct them right, and help me in my task.</L>
<L>Who &s;o does others teach, unlearn'd though he,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ledg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">n time not long &s;hall better learned be.</L>
<L>Beware of &s;matt'rers, follow not their race,</L>
<L>The Romane language who do much di&s;grace:</L>
<L>Of whom there's none &s;o foppi&s;h or &s;o ball'd,</L>
<L>That of the &s;imple is not Ma&s;ter call'd.</L>
<L>If thou the Grammer rules would'&s;t rightly know,</L>
<L>And in the &s;ame mo&s;t elegantly flow;</L>
<L>Addict thy &s;elf to tho&s;e both grave and old,</L>
<L>Whom gowned men do cla&s;&s;ick Authours hold.</L>
<L>Now take thy Virgil, Terence now de&s;ire;</L>
<L>Bove all be &s;ure, thy Tullie thee in&s;pire.</L>
<L>The&s;e who reject, do nothing el&s;e but dreame,</L>
<L>And in much darkne&s;s &s;trive again&s;t the &s;tream.</L>
<L>There are &s;ome boies, do walk in no good way,</L>
<L>But triftle out their time both night and day.</L>
<L>There are, that joy to &s;mite with foot and hand,</L>
<L>And any way to vex in fear not &s;tand.</L>
<L>One brags his birth, and boa&s;ts his progenie,</L>
<L>And twitteth tho&s;e are not of high degree:</L>
<L>But thou, my child, take heed thou do'&s;t not &s;o,</L>
<L>Le&s;t thou thereby do'&s;t purcha&s;e mickle wo.</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt not chop and change, nor buy, nor &s;ell,</L>
<L>To gain by others lo&s;s is not &s;o well.</L>
<L>The root of evill ('tis monie &s;o I deem,)</L>
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<L>Let be; money a child doth ill be&s;eem.</L>
<L>Hooting, wrangling, &s;coffes, lies, and ribaldrie,</L>
<L>Let me not hear, nor any fighting &s;ee.</L>
<L>In no wi&s;e utter that is vild or wrong,</L>
<L>For weal and wo dependeth on the tongue.</L>
<L>Tremble to cur&s;e, or &s;weare, Oh, do not &s;wear:</L>
<L>Why &s;hould'&s;t thou him bla&s;pheme, thou ought'&s;t r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">+vere?</L>
<L>La&s;tly keep &s;afe thy books, and ev'ry thing,</L>
<L>And as thou go'&s;t and com'&s;t, them with thee bring</L>
<L>Shun all occa&s;ion, that may work thee &s;hame,</L>
<L>Chiefely for which I mu&s;t thee al&s;o blame.</L>
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