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now aimed at a beginners' compend as their title shows. So to use Wood's statement, "This contains the four parts of grammar, viz. (1) Orthographia, (2) Etymologia, (3) Syntaxis, and fourthly Prosodia. "18 Wood learned this from his grammar, "Grammaticae quatuor sunt partes: Orthographia, Etymolvgia, Syntaxis, Prosodia." In a form of the grammar containing one-hundred and thirty pages, Orthographia and its handmaiden Orthoepia occupy the first six and two-thirds pages, Etymolvgia occupies sixty-three and two-thirds, Syntaxis, forty-three and two-thirds, Prosodia, sixteen. Of these, the Lily-Robertson volume furnished Etymologia, and Prosodia, the supplemented Lily-Erasmus by Prime furnished Syntaxis. Apparently, Orthographia alone is left unaccounted for; but there is no reason to suppose that the revisers were any more original in these six and two-thirds pages than in the rest of the work. It would probably be easy enough to find the quarry whence they digged.
It will be seen from the facts already given that the revisers of 1540 were just that. It was their business to revise into a consistent and perfect whole the materials which had so far been evolved. So they supplemented, corrected, and polished these materials. Indeed the preface itself says the grammar of 154o was "ex optimis quibusq; huius generis scriptoribus collectam," which describes the process well enough.
Another early pamphlet was by the reign of Elizabeth expanded and at times included, though it was not included in the edition of 154o. The British. Museum catalogues its earliest copy of this work as
G. Lilii ... De generibus nominum, ac verborum praeteritis ct supinis, regulae ... Opus recognitum et adauctutn cum nominum ac verborum interpretamentis, per J. Rituissi, Scholae Paulinae praeceptoris [sic]. [1520?14
This' author is John Rightwise, Lily's son-in-law and successor at Paul's. Ward describes this work as
a Latin interpretation of the regular nouns and verbs, contained in the two books of Lily upon those subjects; but not of the heteroclites, as Wood relates. Tho theseindeed were afterwards added in King Henry's grammar under the reign of queen Elizabeth, with an English explication of the whole, which was of good use, till all those rules came to be construed into English; since which time that interpretation has served for little else, but to increase the bulk of the book.
This section thus formed a little dictionary of the words used as illustrations in these sections of the grammar. At first, the definitions were in Latin, but in the expanded form they were in English.
Such is the story of the formation of the second part of the authorized grammar in i54o. This authorized form, however, was itself later revised. Ward says,
Tho by comparing the edition of 1542 [154o] with one of 15i7, many alterations, and large additions, were found in the later thro the whole; and again several variations from this in others since.
We have already seen that Talley's revised first part as printed in 1542 had been further revised before 1555. Thus both parts of the authorized gram-
18 Wood, Arhenae Oxonienses (r 813), Vol. I, p. 33.
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