PEER. I mean, who is Imprimatur of the verse and the books which are published?
MONTANUS. Is that supposed to be Latin?
PEER. Yes, in my day it was good Latin.
MONTANUS. If it was good Latin then, it must be so still. But it has never been Latin in the sense in which you use it.
PEER. Yes, it is,—good Latin.
MONTANUS. Is it a nomen or a verbum?
PEER. It is a nomen.
JESPER. That is right, Peer, just speak up for yourself.
MONTANUS. Cuius declinationis is Imprimatur, then?
PEER. All the words that can be mentioned may be referred to eight things, which are: nomen, pronomen, verbum, principium, conjugatio, declinatio, interjectio.