AMIN. All toward boys, good scholars of their times; The least of these is past his accidence, Some at _qui mihi_; here's not a boy But he can construe all the grammar rules. _Sed ubi sunt sodales_? not yet come? Those _tardè venientes_ shall be whipp'd. _Ubi est_ Pipkin? where's that lazy knave? He plays the truant every Saturday; But Mistress Virga, Lady Willow-by,[12] Shall teach him that _diluculo surgere Est saluberrimum_: here comes the knave. _Enter_ PIPKIN. 1ST BOY. _Tardè, tardè, tardè_. 2D. BOY. _Tardè, tardè, tardè_. AMIN. _Huc ades_, Pipkin--reach a better rod-- _Cur tam tardè venis_? speak, where have you been? Is this a time of day to come to school? _Ubi fuisti_? speak, where hast thou been? PIP. _Magister, quomodo vales_? AMIN. Is that _responsio_ fitting my demand? PIP. _Etiam certè_, you ask me where I have been, and I say _quomodo vales_, as much as to say, come out of the alehouse. AMIN. Untruss, untruss! nay, help him, help him! PIP. _Quaeso, preceptor, quaeso_, for God's sake do not whip me: _Quid est grammatica_? AMIN. Not whip you, _quid est grammatica_, what's that? PIP. _Grammatica est_, that, if I untruss'd, you must needs whip me upon them, _quid est grammatica_. AMIN. Why, then, _dic mihi_, speak, where hast thou been? PIP. Forsooth, my mistress sent me of an errand to fetch my master from the Exchange; we had strangers at home at dinner, and, but for them, I had not come _tardè; quaeso, preceptor_! AMIN. Construe your lesson, parse it, _ad unguem et condemnato_ to, I'll pardon thee. PIP. That I will, master, an' if you'll give me leave. AMIN. _Propria quae maribus tribuuntur mascula, dicas; expone, expone_. PIP. Construe it, master, I will; _dicas_, they say--_propria_, the proper man--_quae maribus_, that loves marrow-bones--_mascula_, miscalled me. AMIN. A pretty, quaint, and new construction. PIP. I warrant you, master, if there be marrow-bones in my lesson, I am an old dog at them. How construe you this, master, _rostra disertus amat_? AMIN. _Disertus_, a desert--_amat_, doth love--_rostra_, roast-meat. PIP. A good construction on an empty stomach. Master, now I have construed my lesson, my mistress would pray you to let me come home to go of an errand. AMIN. Your _tres sequuntur_, and away. PIP. _Canis_ a hog, _rana_ a dog, _porcus_ a frog, _Abeundum est mihi_. [_Exit_. AMIN. Yours, sirrah, too, and then _ad prandium_. 1ST BOY. _Apis_ a bed, _genu_ a knee, _Vulcanus_, Doctor Dee: _Viginti minus usus est mihi_. AMIN. By _Juno's_ lip and _Saturn's_ thumb It was _bonus, bona, bonum_. 2D BOY. _Vitrum_ glass, _spica_ grass, _tu es asinus_, you are an ass. _Precor tibi felicem noctem_. AMIN. _Claudite jam libros, pueri: sat, prata, bibistis_, Look, when you come again, you tell me _ubi fuistis_. He that minds trish-trash, and will not have care of his _rodix_. Him I will be-lish-lash, and have a fling at his _podix_. [_Exeunt_ BOYS.