what soeuer is tolde in the oracion be shewed him in a table.
[_in context, “table” looks like an error for either “tale” or
“fable”, but it means picture (Latin _tabula_)_]
the grekes says dracontes in the genitiue case
[_Latin _draco, draconis_;
Greek δρακων, δρακοντος (_drakôn, drakontos_)_]
Errors:
what plante wyll bee as the owener or [or or]
They lerne to loke fierslie, the learne to loue the swearde
[_text unchanged: “the” error for “they/thei”?_]
What thynke ye then is to be looked for [is to de]
a yonge man behauinge hym selfe [behaninge]
Straight waye the colt of a lusty courage [Sraight]
so be there also of sciences.
[_text has “sci-/cences” at line break_]
were not made by Hesiodus. [_final . missing_]
thought it to be of Hesiodus doing. [_final . missing_]
And hẽce we ought [hece]
things y^t be naught. [_final . missing_]
Nowe is thys theyr onlye care [_one printing has “thyer”_]
dayntines hathe perswaded vs to comune this office
[_one printing has “commit”_]
more easelye by feare, that one brought vp
[_text unchanged: “that” error for “then/than”?_]
hym to whome he committed the chyefe rule of hys colledge, surnamed
of the thynge [_text unchanged_]
theyr seruauntes, and their threatnynges, [threatnynges,,]
After suche daynties, they exercysed suche lozdelynes.
[_text unchanged: “z” may be intended for some other letter_]
When the sicknes of the body was somewhat put away [sickens]
these things be alowed of suche as haue [suche is]
But if he be of hye degre [_“if” invisible in one printing_]
I wil braule no more [wll]
fayries, witches, nightmares wood men and gyauntes
[_punctuation unchanged_]
that so in manner they myghte eate vp their letters
[_final “t” in “that” invisible_]
of laboure from chyldren, And howe muche [_punctuation unchanged_]
they feele not labour, It shal be the masters parte
[_punctuation unchanged_]
a thyng far more precious. Let vs
[_text has “preci-//Let” at page break; “ous” supplied from
catchword_]
it wyl be ouercoued wyth vyce
[_text unchanged: error for “overcouered”?_]
End of Project Gutenberg's The Education of Children, by Desiderius Erasmus
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