Shakespeare the Boy / With Sketches of the Home and School Life, Games and Sports, Manners, Customs and Folk-lore of the Time

by W. J. Rolfe

Quickly. Pole-cats! there are fairer things than pole-cats, sure.

Evans. You are a very simplicity 'oman; I pray you peace.—What is lapis, William?

William. A stone.

Evans. And what is a stone, William?

William. A pebble.

Evans. No, it is lapis: I pray you remember in your prain.

William. Lapis.

Evans. That is a good William. What is he, William, that does lend articles?

William. Articles are borrowed of the pronoun; and be thus declined, Singulariter, nominativo, hic, hæc, hoc.