This metrical exposition, which will not be mistaken for the language of Horace, is followed by a commentary in prose. The next three divisions do not call for any particular criticism. They treat of the _Eight Parts of Speech_, the _Irregular Nouns_, and the _Laws of Grammatical Construction_, of which the last is the first cast of the _Syntax_. There remain the _Vulgaria_ and the _Lucubrations_, which are far more important and interesting, and of which there were numerous editions. The subjoined samples will shew the principle on which the _Vulgaria_ was compiled:-- "Befe and motton is so dere, that a peny worth of meet wyll scant suffyse a boy at a meale. "Whan I was a scholler of Oxforthe I lyued competently with vii. pens commens wekely. "Be of good chere man for I sawe ryght nowe a rodde made of wythye for the, garnysshed with knottes, it wolde do a boy good to loke vpon it. "A busshell of whete was holde at xii. pens. "A gallon of swete wyne is at viii. pens in London. "A gallon of ale is at a peny and ferdynge. "I warne the fro hens forthe medle not with my bokes. Thou blurrest and blottest them, as thou were a bletchy sowter." Such bits as these were decidedly worth extracting, yet Dibdin, with the very copy of the book from which they are derived before him, let them pass. In this volume Whittinton takes occasion to speak in eulogistic terms of Sir Thomas More. Of the _Lucubrations_ the most interesting portion to an English reader will be the "_To arraye or_ _To backbyte._ The goute. _to dyght._ Detraho Arthesis Orno Detracto Arthtica passio Vestio Obtrecto Morbus articularis Amicio Maledico Chiragra Induo Carpo Podagra Como &c. &c. &c. Colo _An alyen or_ _To playe the_ _To be wode._ _outlandysshe._ _brothell._ Seuio Alienagena Scortari Furio Peregrinus Prostitui Insanio Aduena Fornicari Excandeseor Alienus Merere Bacchor Exterus Struprari _Wodnesse or_ Externus Adulterari _madnesse._ Barbarus Cohire Insania Extraneus Concumbere Seviciæ &c. &c. Furor."