"When little children first are brought to schoole A Horne-booke is a necessarie toole."

"Inadventurous, unstirred by impulses of practical ambition, I was capable of sitting twenty years teaching infants th…"

"Nor let them fall under Discouragement, Who at their Horn-book stick, and time hath spent Upon that A, B, C, while ot…"

"…if I keep sinking from one abyss of ignorance to another, with a velocity proportionable to what I have letely done,…"

"…walked abroad with ferule and horn-book"

"Sir W.—“Come, come, let’s see, Man! What’s this! Odd! this Law is a plaguy troublesome thing; for, now a days, it won…"

"None but imprison’d children now Are seen, where dames with angry brow Threaten each younker to his seat, Who through…"

"I have taught my little master to know his letters and spell a little, as well as I could, out of my Bible; for they …"

"Neatly secured from being soil’d or torn, Beneath a pane of thin translucent horn, A book (to please us at a tender a…"

"I never lov’d a book of horn, Nor leaves that have their letters worn; Nor with a fescue to direct me, Where every pu…"