an ancient waxed Table-book. ‘a 
dinum linius est lectus nula 
tam arbore sectus quisquis 
soluat eum soluat ut quis essit 
hectolia: thers 3 Sic. 
This is evidently intended for Latin, and perhaps for rhyme, but is so igno- 
rantly written as to be unintelligible, except in a few words. It seems to say that 
there are three parts in an egg, the white, the shell, and the yolk. The last two 
lines contain only some random scratches, or unconnected letters, partially rub- 
bed out, as if writing had been previously inscribed, and the wax not completely 
smoothed in erasing it. 
The first page of the next leaf (Plate I. fig. 3) is somewhat more legible, 
and contains the following words : 
absum asum insum itersum 
obsum desum presum prosum 
possum A. B. C. D. E. G. persum 
lilix que sunt afero aufer.... . 
efero infero ofero confero de 
fero difero prefero perfero 
profero refero sufero tranfero 
premo premis dmdium... . . 
lasatus h brunis uirid hoc 
hec brunusin melios brun. . . . - 
tres partes oui album tessta 
vitellus matrimonium 
It is difficult to imagine what this jargon can have been intended for. The 
last line but one speaks again of three parts of an egg, the white, the shell, and 
the yolk; but the first seven or eight lines appear to be an extract from some 
of the rules of Latin Grammar. Something very similar to it will be found 
in the “ Parvulorum Institutio ex Stanbrigiana Collectione,”’ printed by Wynkyn 
de Worde, s.a. 1n treating of the compounds of the verb swm, there is the 
following rule given in this rare book : 
