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Edward Leedes : English Examples. To be Turned into Latin
Transcribed (not entirely accurately) in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes from a later edition of the grammar by Edward Leedes, headmaster of King Edward VI's School at Bury St Edmunds, originally published in 1676: extracts from the preface; seven 'Examples of Exercises preparatory to Themes' ('Of the Spring', 'Of The Summer', 'Of Autumn', 'Of Winter', 'Of Laziness', 'Of Drunkenness', and 'Of Covetousness'); two 'Examples of Themes according to the method usually prescribed' ('Trust, but know whom' and 'We all desire Peace'); three 'Examples of Themes in a more loose and free method' ('Fortune helps the daring', 'All things obey Money', and 'Rest doth much delight the wearied man'); three 'Examples of the Concords' (unheaded); and thirteen 'Examples in English, fitted to the Grammar Rules' (also unheaded).