Schola

This is from a school primer, it puts the English beside Latin to help students learn. I am not going to type out the Latin part since only Heather and a select few others would be able to read it. I have a hard time reading the English, which I am going to say is probably Middle English - 1600s or 1700s. I have turned the strange letter they use into the "s" that it is now. This is the punctuation that is there though, it really hasn't changed much. I can't remember how old the professor said this was, but it is old!

A School is a shop, in which Young Wits are fashtion'o to vertue, and it is distinguished into Forms. The Master, sitteth in a Chair; the Scholars, in Forms; he teacheth, they learn. Some things are writ down before them with Chalk on a Table. Some sit at a Table and write: he mendeth their Faults. Some stand and rehearse things committed to memory. Some talk together, and behave themselves wantonly, and carelessly; these are ravished with a Ferula and a Rod.

On one side of the page is the title "Schola." followed by a picture (wood engraving) of the inside of a school, followed by the English title "A School." The opposite page is split in two with the above passage appearing as the left column and the Latin next to it on the right. Next to some of the words or lines are numbers and these match little numbers included in the image. For example. beside the bad kids is a little "10" and the same number appears next to the part of the text that refers to them. The talkative children section is cute, but it is a toss up for my favourite line, either "he teacheth, they learn" or "he mendeth their Faults."