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 104 THE ARTE OR CRAFTE OF RHETHORYKE

(5) Holpen 80 : 30 ; founden 74 : 36 ; bounden 41 : 7 ; understanden 85 : 12.

Umlaut in the comparative : e. g., lenger 61 : 8 ; strenger 70 : 28.

An adjective taking a plural form in -j to agree with its noun, as in French : e. g., 62 : 14 " oracyons demonstratives." Cf. 68 : 8 ; 68 : 12.

The tone for the one, 84 : 14. The tother for the other 56 : 12 ; 73 : 20 ; 74 : 36 ; 87 :20.

In conjunctions : "nat all onely .... but also," 55 : 3. So 63: 13, " Eyther .... eyther els " for either. . . . or, 80 : 26.

Page 41, line 3. Hugh Faringdon was the last Abbot of Reading and a cleric of considerable prominence in his day. Warton (Hist. Eng. Poetry, London, 1871, Vol. IV, p. 10) and others testify to his learning. In 1530 he joined with others in a letter to the Pope " pointing out the evils likely to result from delaying the divorce desired by the king, and again in 1536 he signed the articles of faith .... which virtually acknowledge the royal supremacy" (Diet. Natl. Biog., XVIII, 206). In 1539, opposing the surrender of his abbey at the dissolution of the monasteries, he was accused of having assisted the northern rebels with money, attainted of high treason, and condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quartered, "which sentence was executed upon him at Reading, November 14, 1539" (Browne Willis, Hist, of the Mitred Parliamentary Abbies, London, 1718, Vol. I, p. 161).

42 : 6. So a little later Sir Thomas Eliot (The Boke named the Gou- ernour, 1531, reprint ed. H. E. S. Croft, London, 1883, Bk. I, ch. xi) urges that at fourteen years the child should be grounded in the Topica of Cicero or of Agricola. " Immediately after that, the arte of Rhetorike wolde be semblably taught, either in greke, out of Hermogines, or of Quintilian in latine." Eliot also recommends Cicero's "De partitione oratoria" and Erasmus' "Copia."

42 : 19 f. The "werke of Rhethoryke wrytten in the lattyn tongue" is Melanchthon's Institutiones Rhetoricce, 1521. See Introduction, supra p. 30.

42 : 23. "The Phylosopher" referred to is probably Aristotle. See Aristotle's Rhetoric, ch. vn.

43 : 6. On Cox's other works "in this facultye." See Introduction, supra p. 21.

43 : 10 f. Cox here is following Melanchthon's divisions and order, but is freely amplifying his author. See the text of Melanchthon, supra p. 91. Such things as the anecdote about Demosthenes, for example, are not in his original.

43 : 12. "Of any maner thing," i. e., of any kind of thing.

43 : 18. " He may as well tell," /. e., he is as likely to tell.

43 : 27. " Sayde ons by demosthenes," /. <?., said concerning Demos- thenes.

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