William Lilly (or Lily), the author of the Latin Grammar mentioned on page 105, was born about 1468 and died in 1523. He was an eminent scholar and the first master of St. Paul's School, London. His Grammar (written in Latin) was entitled "Brevissima Institutio, seu, Ratio Grammatices cognoscendæ, ad omnium puerorum utilitatem præscripta." Of this book more than three hundred editions were printed, the latest mentioned by Allibone (who, by the way, gives the title of the Grammar in an imperfect and ungrammatical form) having been issued in 1817. A copy of the 1651 edition is bound with the _Short Introduction_ of the same date in the Harvard Library. Lilly was the author of both. _You must be preeches._ That is, you must be _breeched_, or flogged. Compare _The Taming of the Shrew_ (iii. 1. 18), where Bianca says to her teachers: "I am no breeching scholar in the schools." _Sprag._ That is, _sprack_, which meant quick, ready. The word is Scotch, as well as Provincial English, and Scott uses it in _Waverley_ (chap, xliii.): "all this fine sprack [lively] festivity and jocularity." =Page 105.=--_A passage from Terence._ In the play, as in the Grammar, it reads: "Redime te captum quam queas minimo." The original Latin is: "Quid agas, nisi ut te redimas captum," etc. =Page 106.=--_Richard Mulcaster._ The poet Spenser was one of his pupils at Merchant-Taylors School in 1568 see (Church's _Spenser_ in "English Men of Letters" series). In 1596 Mulcaster became master of St. Paul's School. He died in 1611. The title of the book quoted here was _The First Part of the Elementarie ... of the Right Writing of our English Tung_. The author's theory was better than his practice, as the specimen of his "right writing" given here will suffice to show. It is to be hoped that his oral style was less clumsy and involved. _Correctors for the print._ Whether this refers to persons correcting manuscript for the press or to proof-readers is doubtful, but probably the former. Some have denied that there was any proof-reading in the Elizabethan age; but variations in copies of the same edition of a book (the First Folio of Shakespeare, published in 1623, for instance) prove that corrections in the text were sometimes made even after the printing had begun. The author also sometimes did some proof-reading. At the end of Beeton's _Will of Wit_ (1599) we find this note: "What faults are escaped in the printing, finde by discretion, and excuse the author, by other worke that let [hindered] him from attendance to the presse." _Rip up._ That is, analyze. =Page 107.=--_The natural English._ That is, natives of England. _Will not yield flat to theirs._ Will not conform exactly to theirs. =Page 108.=--_Bewrayeth._ Shows, makes known. Cf. _Proverbs_, xxvii. 16; _Matthew_, xxvi. 73. _Enfranchisement._ This evidently refers to the "naturalization" of foreign words taken into the language, or making their orthography conform to English usage.