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before they be allowed to sit down to dinner. Such as,
| Assent, | Ascent. | Alter, | Altar. |
| A lass, | Alass. | A peer, | Appear. |
| Bark, | Barque. | Barbery, | Barberrie. |
They are all to be found in metre, most laboriously compiled by the learned author of "The English School Master," printed anno 1641, London edit. p. 52.
7. If any eldest son has not a capacity to attain to this science, let him be disinherited as non compos, and the estate given to the next hopeful child.
Si quid novisti rectius istis
Candidus imperti: si non, his utere mecum[1].
If any man can better rules impart,
I'll give him leave to do 't with all my heart!
- ↑ Hor. Ep. I, i, 67.
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