De naui et eius pertinentibus.
| The formost parte of the shyppe Prora nauis | The hynder parte of the shyppe Puppis rostrum | The saylewarde antenna | the bottom of the shyppe carina | |||||
| The takelynge Armamenta | the mast malus | The cable rudens simul | an anker anchora | the stern clauus | ||||
| The hatches foci | the pompe sentina cum | the water pompe nautea nausea | the hatches transtra | |||||
| The sayle cloth carbalus | idem et belum | the maste of the shyppe nauergus | to sayle et nauigo | a shypman nauta | ||||
| Qui nauem regit nauicularius | idem et nauclerus | i. nauis nauigiumq; | ||||||
| P̄tinēs ad nauē naualis | to rowe remigio | qui remigat remus | the dockes naualia | an ore remex | ||||
| P̄tinens ad nauē nauticus et | qui fregit nauem naufragus naufragium | the see ac mare | a wawe fretū | |||||
| To carry ouer Trajitio | to dryue appello | to carry ouer transporto | the toll, or the custome portarjumq; | |||||
| A fery man Portitor | a fery barge hyppago | idem ponto | a cokbote Iynter quoq; | a bottom cymba | ||||
This extract is highly edifying. In the concluding line ponto, a ferry-barge, is the modern punt, and lynter, a cock-boat, is the early Venetian lintra, to which I refer in Venice before the Stones as antecedent to the gondola.
III. The remaining contribution of Stanbridge to this class of literature is his Vulgaria, which I take to be the least known. Dibdin describes it somewhat at large, and it may be worth while to transfer a specimen hither:—
“Sinciput, et vertex, caput, occiput, et coma, crinis.
| hoc sinciput, is, | the fore parte of the heed |
| hic vertex, cis, | for the crowne of the heed |
| hoc caput, is, | for a heed |
| hoc occiput, is, | the hynder parte of the heed |
| hec coma, e, | for a brisshe |
| hic crinis, nis, | for a heer |
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| A garment Hic indumentum | a clothe vestis | idem vestitus | apparayle amictus | |||
| idem Ornatus | idem simul apparatus | idem amiculus idem | ||||
| a cappe Ista caput gestat apex | agat: e caliptra | idem galerus | ||||
| a cappe Biretum | idem pilius | an hood cuculus | idem capitiumq; | |||
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