Childrens Talk — Charles Hoole

Childrens Talk · Charles Hoole

Col. 15. Oſwald the maſter Paulus a ſchollar and the company of boyes.	Col. 15. Oſvaldus praeceptor Paulus diſcipulus, puerorum grex.
O.	Thinke upon theſe things ſeriouſly which we now read,	Meditámini diligen èr ea, quae nunc praelégimus.
P.	We will be ſure to do it.	Seduló faciemus.
P.	Maſter if you know not it hath ſtruck eight.	5	Praeceptor, ſi neſcis, fonui octáva.
O.	Did any body hear it?	Eſt audita?
P.	Yes indeed.	Eſt ſanè.
O.	How long agoe?	Quamdúdum?
P.	Not very long agoe.	Haud ita dudum.
O.	Be quiet a little boyes after I have ask't …his boy what I will I wil preſently diſmiſs you all Doe you anſwer me.	10	Quié…cite puſillúm, pueri, Poſtquam hunc interrogávero, quae volo, illico dimittam, omnes vos. Tu mihi reſponde.
P.	What I?	15	Egóne?
O.	Doe you know what you ought to doe?	Tu ſcis quidte facere opo? teat?
P.	When?	Quando?
O.	By and by when you come home.	Mox ubi véneris domum.
P.	Am I to do any thing beſids what I am wont.	20	Nunquid faciendum eſt, praeter ſolitum?
O.	What are you wont to doe?	Quid áſſoles facere?
P.	If I be uncomb'd or unwaſh'd, I comb'd mee and waſh me.	Si impexus ſim aut illétus pecto, lavóque.
O.	Well. What doe you after?	25	Recte. Quid poſtea facis?
P.	I get my breakfaſt, and come againe to the ſchoole as ſoone as poſſibly can be.	Jento, revertor quamprimùm and ludm.
O.	Well, but nothing elſe.	Probè, nihil ampliùs verò,
P.	Nothing indeed. If any thing elſe ſhould be done, I pray you put me in mind.	30	Nihil ſanè. Si quid praeterea fieri decet, admone, quaeſo.
O.	So I will. Hark thou.	Ita faciam. Auſculta.
P.	I hearken. Say on.	Auſculto. Dic
O.	Whenſoever you goe into the houſe, you ſhould never goe in without ſaying ſomething.	35	Quocunque tempore demum ingrederis, nunquā debes domum tacitus introire.
P.	Neither doe I doe it.	Nec id facio.
O.	What doe you ſay when you goe in?	Quid loqueris ingrediens.
P.	I ſalute my mother.	Salúto matrem.
O.	Very good reaſon. But if your mother be away, whom doe you ſalute?	40	Meritiſſin è. Sinmater ab eſt, quem ſalutas?
P.	If I ſee her no where, I ſalute the folks of the houſe.	Si illam nuſquam conſpicor, ſalúto familiam.
O.	But if your father ſhall come in after doe you not ſalute him?	Sin pater poſtea ingrediétur, non ſalútas?
P.	No For I thought I had diſcharged my dutie, if I ſaluted once.	45	Minimè. Credidi me perſunctum officio, ſi ſalútem ſemel.
O	Nay but, ſuch reſpect is eſpecially due to your father.	Imò, patri talis honor debetur imprimis.
P.	I did not know ſo much.	50	Neſciebam.	What if my father doe neither ſee me, nor ſpeak to me?	Quid ſi me pater nec videat, nec alloquátur?
O.	Nevertheles, you ſhould come to him of your own accord, and put of your hat and make a leg, and give him an honorable complement.	55	Nihilominus ultr òdebes tu eum accèd re, detecto que capite flectére poplitem & honorificè ſalutáre.
P.	In other words, then we uſe to ſalute other men?	Aliiſne verbis, quàm quibus caeteros hómines ſalutáre ſolémus?	O.	Altogether in others.	Prorſus aliis.
P.	In what?	60	Quitus?
O.	God ſave you moſt dear father, or thus, God ſpeed you father.	Salve, patet chariſſime; vel ſic, Salvus fis, mi pater.
P.	I underſtand you.	Teneo.
O.	If he ask you any thing. anſwer him freely like a man, what you know	65	Si quid interrogabit, reſpondebis, quod ſcis, humaniter.
P.	I will think on't.	Meminero.
O.	Take heed you take no diſtaſte at any thing that he ſaith or doth.	70	Cave tibi quicquam diſplictat eorum, quae vel dicit vel facit.
P.	I am not ſo ſqueamiſh, that my fathers doings or words ſhould diſpleaſe me.	Non ſum tam faſtidioſꝰ ut patris mibi facta diſplicant, aut verba.
O.	Bee ready to obey him at every command.	75	Ad quodvis imperátum ſis obſequibilis.
P.	So I am.	Sic ſum.
O.	See you never offend him.	Vide ne unquam offendas.
P.	I will not doe it that I know on.	Sciens non faciam.
O.	Moreover, if, when he is angry he ſhall talke aloud, endure his chiding and ſay nothing.	80	Porro, ſi quando offenſus detonabit, perferto tacitus increpatiónem ipſius.
P.	What? If I have deſerved nothing.	Quid? ſi nihil ſim proméritus.
O.	* Learn to bear even a unjuſt chiding, eſpecially from a parent.	85	*Etiam injuſtam objurgationem diſce ſuſtinere, praeſertion à parente.
P.	I will ende about the beſt I can.	Pro virili conabor.
O.	* You ought to reverence and reſpect both your parents alike.	90	* Utrumquè parentem debts colere ac venèrári pari obſervantia.
P.	So I doe, though no body bid me.	Ita facio, etſi nullus admonuerit.
O.	If you doe it, doe it ſtil: but if not, be ſure to doe it.	100	Si quidem facis, perge fā cere: ſin minùs, ſedulo fácito.
P.	I will omit nothing with my good will	Nihil praetermittam volens.
O.	You ſay honeſtly. Boyes what I have taught this one boy, I would have you all taught the ſame.	100	Honeſtè dicis. Pueri, quae unum hunc edócui, omnes eadem edoctos volo.
P.	Wee underſtand you.	Intelligimus.
O.	Now get you to breakfaſt, and come again about nine a clock.	Nunc ite jentatum & redite ſub horam nonā.

Childrens Talk, Colloquy 15