ABSTRACT
From A direction for a good and profitable proceeding in study, by Mr. N. Sterry ofE.C., Bodleian Tanner MSS., vol. 88, no. 5: After all this, if you can, before you are Batchelor read Spencer, & Daniels poems for the furnishing of your English tongue. for what good will all learning doe you, if you cannot make vse of it in the mother tongue? which excellency few looke after, which is an extraordinary folly.
