Note 1090 — PART III CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
Reading edition
They were prescribed by the statutes of all the leading mediaeval schools in England, and among their numerous editors were Brinsley (1612) and Hoole (1659). They dealt with Stoic morals, enmity and friendship, adversity and prosperity, avarice and adulation, &c., and were obviously unsuited to young children. Watson, English Grammar Schools to 1660, p. 122, quotes the following as a favourable specimen:
Cum te quis laudet, iudex tuus esse memento; plus aliis de te, quam tu tibi, credere noli. officium alterius multis narrare memento; atqui aliis cum tu benefeceris, ipse sileto.