[124] _Clerk's Prolog._ 32.

[125] _Life of our Lady_ (1409-1411), (Caxton) lvii b.

[126] Trans, of Boethius (1410), quoted by Skeat, _Chaucer_, II, xvii.

[127] _Kingis Q._ (1423), CXCVII.

[128] _Test. Papyngo_ (1530), II.

[129] _Seyntys_ (1447), Roxb. 41.

[130] _Serp. Devision_, c. iii b.

[131] Reprinted from the ed. of 1555 for the Percy Society (London, 1845), p. 2.

[132] _Ibid._, p. 55.

[133] _Ibid._, p. 28.

[134] _See_ p. 27.

[135] _Ibid._, p. 37.

[136] _Ibid._, p. 46.

[137] "Proximum grammatice docet, quae emendate & aperte loquendi vim tradit: Proximum _rhetorice, quae ornatum orationis cultum que & omnes capiendarum aurium illecebras invenit_. Quod reliquum igitur est videbitur sibi dialectice vendicare, probabliter dicere de qualibet re, quae deducitur in orationem." _De inventione dialectica_ (Paris, 1535), II, 2.

cf. also II, 3.

Cf. "_Gram_ loquitur; _Dia_ vera docet; _Rhet_ verba colorat." Nicolaus de Orbellis (d. 1455), quoted by Sandys, p. 644.

[138] _Ibid._, I, 1.

[139] _Rule of Reason_ (1551), p. 5. Fraunce, _Lawiers Logike_, takes the same view.

[140] _Dialecticae libri duo_, A. Talaei praelectionibus ill.u.s.trati (Paris, 1560), I, 2.

[141] _Rule of Reason_, p. 3.

[142] Wilkins introd. to Cic. _De orat._, p. 57.

[143] _De inst. orat._, VI., v, 1-2.

[144] Printed in London by John Day, without a date. The dedication is dated Dec. 13, 1550. The t.i.tle page says it was "written fyrst in Latin--by Erasmus."

[145] Ascribed to Dudley Tenner by Foster Watson, _The English Grammar Schools_ (Cambridge, 1908), p. 89.

[146] Chapter IX.

[147] Thomas Heywood, _Apology for Actors_ (London, 1612), in _Pub. Shak.

Soc._, Vol. III, p. 29.

[148] Book I, ch. 1.

[149] "Rhetorica est ars ornate dicendi." _Rhetoricae libri duo quorum prior de tropis & figuris, posterior de voce & gestu praecepit: in usum scholarum postremo recogniti._ (London, 1629)

[150] _The Art of Rhetorick concisely and completely handled, exemplified out of Holy Writ_, etc. (London, 1634)

[151] Dekker and Middleton, _The Roaring Girl_, III, 3.

[152] Dekker, III, 1.

[153] Spingarn, _Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century_, I, 2.

[154] ?e??a????a _Manductio ad Artem Rhetoricam ante paucos annos in privatum scholarium usum concinnata_ (London, 1621). "Rhetorica est ars recte dicendi, etc."

[155] Norden, _op. cit._, pp. 699-703.

[156] A.C. Clark, _Ciceronianism_, in _Eng. Lit. and the Cla.s.sics_, ed.

Gordon (Oxford, 1912), p. 128.

[157] Woodward, _Educ. in the Ren._, p. 45.

[158] Erasmus, _Dialogus, cui t.i.tulus ciceronia.n.u.s, sive, de optimo dicendi genere_, in _Opera omnia_ (Lugduni Batavorum, 1703), I. It was composed in 1528.

[159] _Arte of Rhet._, p. 109.

[160] I, 4. Wilson follows the a.n.a.lysis on p. 7.

[161] I, x, 17.

[162] _An Apology for Actors_, p. 29.

[163] This count is based on the Cicero MSS. listed by P. Deschamps, _Essai bibliographique sur M. T. Ciceron_ (Paris. 1863). Appendix.

[164] H. Rashdall, _Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages_ (Oxford, 1895), I, 249.

[165] J. E. Sandys, _History of Cla.s.sical Scholarship_, p. 590.

[166] Sandys, p. 624 _seq._

[167] Deschamps, _op. cit._, pp. 59-63.

[168] Arber reprint, p. 124.

[169] M. Schwab, _Bibliographie d'Aristote_ (Paris, 1896).

[170] Rashdall, II, 457.

[171] Fierville, C. _M. F. Quintiliani de inst.i.tutione oratorio, liber primus_ (Paris, 1890). Introduction, xiv-x.x.xii. M. Fierville prints for the first time the complete texts of these abridgments in an appendix.