[448] "With taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish Is wasteful and ridiculous excess."--_King John_, iv. 2. [449] Old eds. "Lucea." [450] A corruption of Fr. _allons_. Cf. Nashe's _Have with you to Saffron_--"_Alloune, alloune_, let us march!" (_Works_, ed. Grosart, iii. 163.) [451] See Dyce's _Shakesp. Glossary_. [452] A bacchanalian exclamation. [453] Ed. 2. "helpeth." SCENE II. _A School-room._ _Enter a schoolmaster, draws the curtains behind, with_ BATTUS, NOUS, SLIP, NATHANIEL, _and_ HOLOFERNES PIPPO, _schoolboys, sitting, with books in their hands_. _All._ _Salve, magister!_ _Ped._[454] _Salvete pueri, estote salvi, vos salvere exopto vobis salutem, Batte, mi fili, mi Batte!_ _Bat._ _Quid vis?_ _Ped._ Stand forth: repeat your lesson without book. _Bat._ A noun is the name of a thing that may be seen, felt, heard, or understood. _Ped._ Good boy: on, on. _Bat._ Of nouns some be substantives and some be substantives. 10 _Ped._ Adjectives. _Bat._ Adjectives. A noun substantive either is proper to the thing that it betokeneth-- _Ped._ Well, to numbers. _Bat._ In nouns be two numbers, the singular and the plural: the singular number speaketh of one, as _lapis_, a stone; the plural speaketh of more than one, as _lapides_, stones. _Ped._ Good child. Now thou art past _lapides_, stones, proceed to the cases. Nous, say you next, Nous. Where's your lesson, Nous? 21 _Nous._ I am in a verb, forsooth. _Ped._ Say on, forsooth: say, say. _Nous._ A verb is a part of speech declined with mood and tense, and betokeneth doing, as _amo_, I love. _Ped._ How many kind of verbs are there? _Nous._ Two; personal and impersonal. _Ped._ Of verbs personals, how many kinds? _Nous._ Five; active, passive, neuter, deponent, and common. A verb active endeth in _o_, and betokeneth to do, as _amo_, I love; and by putting to _r_, it may be a passive, as _amor_, I am loved. 32 _Ped._ Very good, child. Now learn to know the deponent and common. Say you, Slip. _Slip._ _Cedant_[455] _arma togæ, concedat laurea linguæ._ _Ped._ What part of speech is _lingua_: _inflecte, inflecte_. _Slip._ _Singulariter, nominativo hæc lingua._ _Ped._ Why is _lingua_ the feminine gender? _Slip._ Forsooth because it is the feminine gender. 39 _Ped._ Ha, thou ass! thou dolt! _idem per idem_, mark it: _lingua_ is declined with _hæc_, the feminine, because it is a household stuff, particularly belonging and most commonly resident under the roof of women's mouths. Come on, you Nathaniel, say you, say you next; not too fast; say tretably:[456] say.