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A battle-door for teachers & professors to learn singular & plural; : you to many, and thou to one: singular one, thou; plural many, you. Wherein is shewed ... how several nations and people have made a distinction between singular and plural. And first, in the former part of this book, called the English battle-door, may be seen how several people have spoken singular and plural; ... Also, in this book is set forth examples of the singular and plural about thou, and you, in several languages, divided into distinct battle-doors, or formes, or examples; ... and how emperors and others have used the singular word to one; and how the word you came first from the Pope. Likewise some examples, in the Polonian, Lithuanian, Irish and East-Indian, together with ... Sweedish, Turkish, ... tongues. In the latter part of this book are contained severall bad unsavory words, gathered forth of certain school-books, which have been taught boyes in England ... George. Fox. John Stubs. Benjamin Furley