A battle-door for teachers & professors to learn singular & plural; you to many, and thou to one: singular one, thou; plural many, you. Wherein is shewed ... how several nations and people have made a distinction between singular and plural. And first, in the former part of this book, called the English battle-door, may be seen how several people have spoken singular and plural; ... Also, in this book is set forth examples of the singular and plural about thou, and you, in several languages, divided into distinct battle-doors, or formes, or examples; ... and how emperors and others have used the singular word to one; and how the word you came first from the Pope. Likewise some examples, in the Polonian, Lithuanian, Irish and East-Indian, together with ... Sweedish, Turkish, ... tongues. In the latter part of this book are contained severall bad unsavory words, gathered forth of certain school-books, which have been taught boyes in England ... George. Fox. John Stubs. Benjamin Furley

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  • A battle-door for teachers & professors to learn singular & plural; you to many, and thou to one: singular one, thou; plural many, you. Wherein is shewed ... how several nations and people have made a distinction between singular and plural. And first, in the former part of this book, called the English battle-door, may be seen how several people have spoken singular and plural; ... Also, in this book is set forth examples of the singular and plural about thou, and you, in several languages, divided into distinct battle-doors, or formes, or examples; ... and how emperors and others have used the singular word to one; and how the word you came first from the Pope. Likewise some examples, in the Polonian, Lithuanian, Irish and East-Indian, together with ... Sweedish, Turkish, ... tongues. In the latter part of this book are contained severall bad unsavory words, gathered forth of certain school-books, which have been taught boyes in England ... George. Fox. John Stubs. Benjamin Furley
  • Battle door for teachers and professors
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Imprint
London : printed for Robert Wilson, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Black-Spread-Eagle and Wind-mil in Martins le Grand, 1660.
Added name
Stubbs, John, 1618?-1674.; Furly, Benjamin, 1636-1714.
Publication year
1660
ESTC No.
R7810
Grub Street ID
128038
Description
[4], 96, 91-94, 12, 8, 12, 19, [1], 18, p. 61, p. 17, 19, [5], 28 p. ; 2°.
Note
With errata slip

With cancel slip pasted to foot of p. 28 (final sequence)

Signatures: A-2C]2, ]2A-C]2, ]3A-B]2, ]4A-C]2, ]5A-E]2, ]6A-C]2] D]4, ]7A-C]2] D]6, ]8A-G]2.
Uncontrolled note
Signatures from DFo