"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…"

"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…"

"He resolved therefore to answere his humble orator; but being himselfe not brought up to learning (for the divell can…"

"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…"