=Page 104.=--_Articles._ Sir Hugh uses the word in the sense of "demonstratives." This shows that the _Accidence_ mentioned above as the book from which Shakespeare got his first lessons in Latin (as Halliwell-Phillipps and other authorities state) gave some of the elementary facts in precisely the same form in which they appear in the Latin Grammar written _in English_ and published in 1574 with the title, "A Short Introduction of Grammar, generally to be used: compiled and set forth for the bringing up of all those that intend to attaine to the knowledge of the Latine Tongue." I transcribe this from the edition published at Oxford in 1651 (a copy in the Harvard University library, which appears to be the one studied by President Ezra Stiles when he was a boy). In this book (page 3), under the head of "Articles," we read:-- "Articles are borrowed of the Pronoune, and be thus declined: Singulariter. _Nomin._ _hic_, _hæc_, _hoc_. _Genetivo_ _hujus_. _Dativo_ _huic_. _Acc._ _hunc_, _hanc_, _hoc_. _Vocativo_ _caret_. _Ablativo_ _hoc_, _hac_, _hec_. Pluraliter. _Nomin._ _hi_, _hæ_, _hæc_. _Gen._ _horum_, _harum_, _horum_. _Dativo_ _his_. _Accus._ _hos_, _has_, _hæc_. _Vocativo_ _caret_. _Ablativo_ _his_." It will be noticed that the names of the cases are in Latin, as in Shakespeare. He may have used this very grammar. _Hang-hog is Latin for Bacon._ Suggested by the hanging up of the pork during the process of curing. There is an old story of Sir Nicholas Bacon (father of the philosopher), who was a judge. A criminal whom he was about to sentence begged mercy on account of kinship. "Prithee, said my lord, how came that in? Why, if it please you, my lord, your name is _Bacon_ and mine is _Hog_, and in all ages Hog and Bacon are so near kindred that they are not to be separated. Ay, but, replied the judge, you and I cannot be of kindred unless you be hanged; for Hog is not Bacon till it be well hanged." _Leave your prabbles._ That is, your _brabbles_. The word literally means quarrels or broils; as in _Twelfth Night_, v. 1. 68: "In private brabble did we apprehend him." Sir Hugh uses it loosely with reference to the Dame's interruptions and criticisms. _O!--vocativo, O!_ The boy hesitates, trying to recall the vocative, but Sir Hugh reminds him that it is wanting--_caret_ in Latin, which suggests _carrot_ to the Dame. The _O_ is suggested by its use before the vocative case of nouns in the paradigms in the _Accidence_, which probably here also agrees with the _Short Introduction_, where in the first declension we find: "_Vocativo ô musa_"; in the second: "_Vocativo ô magister_," etc.