The English school-master : teaching all his scholars, of what age soever, the most easie, short, and perfect order of distinct reading, and true writing our English tongues, that hath ever yet been known or published by any : and further also, teacheth a direct course, how any unskillful person may easily both understand any hard English words, which they shall in scriptures, sermons, or else-where hear or read, & also be made able to use the same aptly themselves, and generally whatsoever is necessary to be known for the English speech so that he who hath this book only, needeth to buy no other to make him fit from his letters to the grammar school, for an apprentice, or any other private use so far as concerneth English, and therefore it is made not only for children, though the first book be meer childish for them, but also for all other, especially for those that are ignorant in the Latin tongue : in the next page the school master hangeth forth his table to view all beholders, setting forth some of the chief commodities of his profession ...
by: Coote, Edmund, active 1597
Published: (1673)
