48 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
More than half a century ago living next door to a Quaker¬ 
ess who was a nonagenarian or near it, I chanced to' ask her 
about the dame-school she had attended in the prerevolutionary 
era,. The last function every day she said was that, the chil¬ 
dren all stood up and intoned in chorus, two syllables by two, 
—Hono-rifi-cabil-itu-dini-tati-busque. This, voicing from one 
equally innocent of both Shakespeare and of Latin was rather 
startling. Xor could I persuade the Quakeress to bate the final 
syllable -que which seemed to me superfluous. She insisted 
that the terminal busque was intoned with more gladsome em¬ 
phasis than any other couplet because it rang out, the breaking 
up of school. In truth her polysyllable,—though she did not 
know it, was a fitting daily valedictory to both teacher and 
school-mates. It seems, to mean, “and with all highest compli¬ 
ments.” It is like Wohl bekommd’es ihnen! at the close 
of German schools. Can we believe that, the long word came 
into a Puritan school directly from Shakespeare? It seems 
more likely that it had descended by a sort, of apostolical suc¬ 
cession from the school in which Shakespeare had been taught 
—or from one formed on the same model—and that, it had been 
imported into the curriculum there from the form ding of the 
establishment, for on the continent the term' is traceable in ear¬ 
lier centuries. X-E-D cannot ferret out this greeting in any 
English book prior to Shakespeare who, however, while intro¬ 
ducing the monster assumes that it must be well-known to every 
school master. Various other school words X-E-D tells us, are 
found in no author earlier than Shakespeare. Among these 
are “Accidence” meaning grammar, and exclamation denoting 
a mark of punctuation, and “caret” showing that something 
is wanting. “Hie jacet” learned either in school or from 
tombstones on the wav thither, X-E-D says, has been read in no 
English writing before Albs well that ends well, of 1601. iii, 6, 
66. “Exit,” Latin for “he goes out” which the young school-boy 
had learned in a, drilled dull lesson he at first employed, fol¬ 
lowing others, in the Latin sense, and afterward originated the 
noun “exits” and at the same time 1 its companion word en¬ 
trances. X-E-D shows that both words—originating with the 
same player are both compounds of the same Latin verb,—one 
