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XCVIII.

A School. Schola.

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A _School_, 1. is a Shop in which _Young Wits_ are fashion’d to vertue, and it is distinguish’d into _Forms_. _Schola_, 1. est Officina, in quâ _Novelli Animi_ formantur ad virtutem, & distinguitur in _Classes_.

The _Master_, 2. sitteth in a _Chair_, 3. the _Scholars_, 4. in _Forms_, 5. he teacheth, they learn. _Præceptor_, 2. sedet in _Cathedra_, 3. _Discipuli_, 4. in _Subselliis_, 5. ille docet, hi discunt.

Some things are writ down before them with _Chalk_ on a _Table_, 6. Quædam præscribuntur illis _Cretâ_ in _Tabella_, 6.

Some sit at a Table, and write, 7. he mendeth their Faults, 8. Quidam sedent ad Mensam, & scribunt, 7. ipse corrigit Mendas, 8.

Some stand and rehearse things committed to memory, 9. Quidam stant, & recitant mandata memoriæ, 9.

Some talk together, 10. and behave themselves wantonly and carelessly; these are chastised with a _Ferrula_. 11. and a _Rod_, 12. Quidam confabulantur, 10. ac gerunt se petulantes, & negligentes; hi castigantur _Ferulâ_ (baculo), 11. & _Virgâ_, 12.