Though I may not touch it yet I may see =Si non tangendi copia ē videndi tā; erit.= The dede selfe scheweth or telleth =Res ipsa indicat.= If I had tarayed a lytill while I hadd not found hym at home =Paululū si cessassē eū domi nō offendissē.=" No one will be astonished or displeased to hear that Terence soon acquired great popularity among school-boys and a permanent rank as a text-book. In 1497 Pynson printed all the Comedies, and a few years later selections were given with marginal glosses. In 1533 the celebrated Nicholas Udall, many years before he gave to the world the admirable comedy of _Ralph Roister Doister_, edited portions of the Latin poet with an English translation, doubtless for the benefit of the scholars at Eton; it was a volume which long continued a favourite, and passed through several impressions, both during the author's life and after his death. In 1598, a century subsequent to the appearance of the first, came a second complete version of the Comedies, from the pen of Richard Bernard of Axholme in Lincolnshire, and being more contemporary in its language and treatment, drove out of fashion the old Pynson. Bernard's remained in demand till the middle of the next century, and concurrently with it renderings of separate plays occasionally presented themselves. In 1588 the _Andria_ was brought out by Maurice Kyffin with marginal notes, his professed object being twofold, namely, to further the attainment of Latin by novices and the recovery of it by such as had forgotten the language. In 1627, Thomas Newman, apparently one of the masters of St. Paul's, prepared for the special behoof of students generally the _Eunuch_ and the _Andria_, dedicating his performance to the scholars of Paul's, to whom he wished increase in grace and learning. The treatment of these two favourite dramas was influenced, as we are expressly informed, by the idea and ambition of adapting them for theatrical exhibition at a school. But they were, at the same time, considered by our forefathers particularly well suited as vehicles for instruction, as well perhaps as for amusement. In the early days of Charles I., Dr. Webbe brought out an edition of them, both on a novel, principle of his own, which he had taken the precaution to patent. The safeguard proved superfluous, however, for the book never went into a second edition. * * * * *