=Rarus iucundus absurdus turpe Terē. turpe saluber.= dictū. =Mirandus mirus pulchrum sit Qui. multa periculosus.= dictu visuq; miranda. =Whan there cometh a verbe after Terētius. quidnā sum es fui without a relatyve incepturus es. or a coniunccyon yf it be of the actyue sygnyfycacyon it shall be Tere. uxor tibi put in a partycyple of the fyrst ducenda est pāphyle sutertens yf he be of the passyue Te oro vt synyfacoōn he shall be put in the nuptie que fuerant partycyple of the latter sutertens, future fiant. except exulo, vapulo, veneo, fio.= IV. Robert Whittinton, whose name is probably more familiar to the ordinary student than that of the man from whom he derived his knowledge and tastes, was a native of Warwickshire, and was born at Lichfield about 1480--perhaps a little before. He received his education, as I have stated, at the Free School at Oxford, and is supposed to have gained admission to one of the colleges; but of this there is no certainty. He subsequently acquired, however, the distinction of being decorated with the laurel wreath by the University of Oxford for his proficiency in grammar and rhetoric, with leave to read publicly any of the logical writings of Aristotle; and he assumed the title of Protovates Angliæ, and the credit of having been the first Englishman who was laureated. It is certain that Whittinton became a teacher like his master Stanbridge, and among his scholars he counted William Lily, the eminent grammarian; but where he so established himself is not so clear, nor do we know the circumstances or date of his decease. I am going to do my best to lay before the reader of these pages a clear bibliographical outline of Whittinton's literary performances; and it seems to amount to this, that he has left to us, apart from a few miscellaneous effusions, eleven distinct treatises on the parts of grammar, all doubtless more or less based on the researches and consonant with the doctrines of his immediate master Anniquil and the foreign professors of the same art, whose works had found their way into England, and had even, as in the case of Sulpicius and Perottus, been adopted by the English press. I will first give the titles of the several pieces succinctly, and then proceed to furnish a slight description of each:-- 1. De Nominum Generibis. 2. Declinationes Nominum. 3. De Syllabarum Quantitate, &c. 4. Verborum Præterita et Supina. 6. De Octo Partibus Orationis. 7. De Heteroclitis Nominibus. 8. De Concinnitate Grammatices et Constructione. 9. Syntaxis. [A recension of No. 8.] 10. Vulgaria. 11. Lucubrationes.