The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

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, haec, hoc.

EVANS.
Nominativo, hig, haeg, hog, pray you, mark: genitivo, huius. Well, what is your accusative case?

WILLIAM.
Accusativo, hinc.