Nearly, if not quite, contemporary with him and Dewes was Pierre du Ploiche, who in the time of Henry published a very curious little volume of more general scope, called _A Treatise in English and French right necessary and profitable for all young children_. Du Ploiche, when this work appeared, was residing in Trinity Lane, at the sign of the Rose. He gives us in parallel columns, the English on the left hand, and the French equivalent on the right, the _Catechism_, the _Litany and Suffrages_, and a series of _Prayers_. These occupy three sections; the fourth, fifth, and sixth sections are devoted to secular and familiar topics: _For to speake at the table_, _for to aske the way_, and _for to bie and sell_; and the concluding portion embraces the A. B. C. and Grammar. The English is pretty much on a par with that found in educational treatises produced by foreigners, and the French itself is decidedly of an archaic cast, though, doubtless, such as was generally recognised and understood in the sixteenth century. I shall pass over the religious divisions, and transcribe a few specimens from the three groups of dialogue on social or personal subjects. The third chapter, where the scene at a meal is depicted, affords, of course, some interesting suggestions and illustrations, yet little that is very new, except that we seem to get a glimpse of the practice, borrowed from monastic life, of some one reading aloud while the rest were at their repast. For one says: "Reade Maynerd, _Lisez Maynart_," to which the other rejoins: "Where shall I reade?" and the first answers: "There where your fellow lefte yesterday," so that it was apparently the custom to take turns. We perceive, too, that the dinner was both ushered in and wound up with very elaborate graces. In this dialogue, as well as in the next about asking the way, there is mention of almost every description of utensil, but no reference to the fork, which was not yet in general use. There is a delicate refinement of phraseology here and there, as where "You ly" is rendered "Vous espargnez la verité;" and Du Ploiche does not fail to advertise himself and his address, for when one of the interlocutors demands: "Where go you to schole?" the other is made to reply: "In trinytie lane at the signe of the Rose." The annexed extract from the same chapter may assist in fixing the date of the publication to 1544:-- "And you sir, from whence "_Et vous seigneur, d'ou venez com you? vous?_ I come from Bulloigne. _Ie viens de Boulongne._ From Englande, from Germany. _D'Engleterre, d'Allemaigne._ What newes? _Quelle nouuelles?_ I know none but good. _Ie ne sçay rien que bien._ I harde say _i'ay ouy dire_ That the Englishe men _que les anglois_ haue kylled many frenche men. _ont occis beaucoup de François._