BALLANTYNE PRESS: EDINBURGH AND LONDON
Footnotes:
[1]There is some sort of evidence that the Grammar of Perottus was in demand here in England as a work of reference and instruction; for I find it in the interesting account-book of John Dorne of Oxford for 1520. It is bracketed with theVulgariaof Whittinton and theVocabulaandAccidenceof Stanbridge as having fetched, the four together, 3s. It is described as being in leather binding, in quarto.
[2]Knight refers to theEpistolæof Franciscus Philelphus, printed at Milan in 1471.
[3]Introduction to Hayne’sLatin Grammar, 1640.
[4]It may be worth while to note that the use ofwollforwholewas not an unusual type of orthography and pronunciation in early English. Thus, in theInterlude of the Four Elements(1519), we have:—
“For, as I said, they have none iron,Whereby they should in the earth mine,To search for anywore.”
And in theImage of Hypocrisy, part 3, Robin Hood is calledRobyn Whode. Lord Chancellor Westbury used to pronouncewholein the same way, and he would also saywhotforhot. When Mr. Registrar Hazlitt was engaged with him on the Bankruptcy Bill, he remarked more than once: “I am sick, Hazlitt, of thewollbusiness.”