III. The _Vulgaria_ of William Horman, 1519, is perhaps one of the most intrinsically curious and valuable publications in the entire range of our early philological literature. It would be easy to fill such a slender volume as that in the hands of the reader with samples of the contents without exhausting the store, but I must content myself with such extracts as seem most entertaining and instructive:-- "Physicians, that be all sette to wynne money, bye and sylle our lyues: and so oftē tymes we bye deth with a great and a sore pryce. _Animas nostras æruscatores medici negociantur, &c._ "Papyre fyrste was made of a certeyne stuffe like the pythe of a bulrushe in Ægypt: and syth it is made of lynnen clothe soked in water, stāpte or grūde pressed and smothed. _Chartæ seu papyri, &c._ "The greattest and hyest of pryce: is papyre imperyall. _Augustissimum papyrum, &c._ "The prynters haue founde a crafte to make bokis by brasen letters sette in ordre by a frame. _Calcographi artē, &c._ "Pryntynge hathe almooste vndone scryueners crafte. _Chalcographia librariorū q̄stū pene exhavsit._ "Yf the prynters take more hede to the hastynge: than to the true settynge of theyr moldis: the warke is vtterly marred. _Si qui libros, &c._" The rest are given without the Latin equivalents, which have no particular interest. "Scryueners write with blacke, redde, purple, gren, blewe, or byce: and suche other. Parchement leues be wonte to be ruled: that there may be a comly margēt: also streyte lynes of equal distaunce be drawe withyn: that the wryttyng may shewe fayre. Olde or doting chourles can not suffre yōge children to be mery. I haue lefte my boke in the tennys playe. This ynke is no better than blatche. Frobeynes prynt is called better than Aldus: but yet Aldus is neuer the lesse thanke worthy: for he began the fynest waye: and left saūple by the whiche other were lyghtly provoked and taughte to deuyse better. There is come a scoolle of fysshe. The tems is frosne ouer with yse. The trompettours blowe a fytte or a motte. Vitelars thryue: by getherynge of good felowes that haue swete mouthes. The mōkis of charter-house: neuer ete fleshe mete. We shall drynke methe or metheglen. We shall haue a iuncket after dyner. Serue me with pochyd eggis. He kepeth rere suppers tyll mydnyght. Se that I lacke nat by my beddes syde a chayer of easement: with a vessel vnder: and an vrinall bye. Women couette to sytte on lowe or pote stolys: men upon twyse so hye. It is cōuenyent that a man haue one seueral place in his house to hymselfe fro cōbrance of womē. Women muste haue one place to themselfe to tyffil themselfe and kepe theyr apparell. They whyte theyr face, necke and pappis with cerusse: and theyr lyppis and ruddis with purpurisse. Tumblers, houndes, that can goo on huntynge by them selfe: brynge home theyr praye. Lytel popies, that serueth for ladies, were sūtyme bellis: sūtyme colers ful of prickkis for theyr defēce.