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One must be excused for telling one would not tell it in a book intended to be read only by Scotsmen, who know or ought to know the tale already how the two Melvilles and Buchanan's nephew Thomas went to see him in Edinburgh, in September, 1581, hearing that he was ill, and his History still in the press; and how they found the old sage, true to his schoolmaster's instincts, teaching the Hornbook to his servant-lad; and how he told them that doing that was "better than stealing sheep, or sitting idle, which was as bad," and showed them that dedication to James I., in which he holds up to his imitation as a hero whose equal was hardly to be found in history, that very King David whose liberality to the Romish Church provoked James's witticism that "David was a sair saint for the crown."
"But can there really be so much danger," said Florence, "in letting little children, protestant and catholic, come together to the same school sit on the same bench learn the same alphabet from the same hornbook?" "Oh, my dear Miss Annaly," cried Mrs.
There's no harm in that, I hope, no disloyalty to my Lord Carnal's interests which happen to be my interests?" I made no answer. I gave him credit both for his ignorance of the very hornbook of honor and for his large share of the milk of human kindness. "My lord grows restive," he said, when we had gone a little further. "The Francis and John, coming in yesterday, brought court news.
As soon as he was able to remember the first little things that children are taught, his mother would fasten to his belt a string from which was suspended what she would call his hornbook. This was not at all what we think of to-day as a book, for it was made of a piece of cardboard covered on one side with a thin sheet of horn, and surrounded by a frame with a handle.
"Miss Plowden has forgotten my hornbook, I believe," said Borroughcliffe, advancing from the standing group who surrounded the table; "possibly I can find some work in the basket of the boy, better fitted for the improvement of a grown-up young gentleman than this elementary treatise."
Have you no learned puzzle-brained metaphysicians who tell you that space is but an idea, all this palpable universe an idea in the mind, and no more? Why am I an enigma as dark as the Sibyls, and your metaphysicians as plain as a hornbook?" Again the sardonic laugh.
I may condescend, perhaps, to regard the Bible as a hornbook, in which God, an older student than I, tells me how to begin to learn what he had to study; or I may decline to be taught, through the Bible, how to learn right and wrong.
He relied much on Villeroy, a political hack certainly, an ancient Leaguer, and a Papist, but a man too cool, experienced, and wily to be ignorant of the very hornbook of diplomacy, or open to the shallow stratagems by which Spain found it so easy to purchase or to deceive.
Not more familiar is his hornbook to the scholar, than are the heavens to my knowledge." "What, thou art an astrologer?" "Aye, lady! my fathers were so before me, even in the times when our people had a home amidst the pyramids of the mighty in the times when you are told the mightier prophets of the Israelites put the soothsayers of Egypt to confusion; idle tales! but if true, all reckless now.
His prose writings include The Gull's Hornbook , The Seven Deadly Sins of London, and The Belman of London , satirical works which give interesting glimpses of the life of his time. His life appears to have been a somewhat chequered one, alternating between revelry and want. He is one of the most poetical of the older dramatists. Lamb said he "had poetry enough for anything."
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