Always be at hand when you’re wanted.
Diligence will get you praise.
God be with you!
[ The Babees Book]
My God, support me while I translate this treatise from Latin. It shall teach those of tender age.
To know and practise virtues is the most profitable thing in the world.
Young Babies, adorned with grace, I call on you to know this book (for Nurture should accompany beauty), and not on aged men expert therein.
Why add pain to hell, water to the sea, or heat to fire?
Babies, my book is for you only, and so I hope no one will find fault with it, but only amend it.
The only reward I seek is that my book may please all and improve you.