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Ioannis Palsgraui Londoniensis, ecphrasis Anglica in comoediam Acolasti. : The comedye of Acolastus translated into oure englysshe tongue, after suche maner as chylderne are taught in the grammer schole, fyrst worde for worde, as the latyne lyeth, and afterwarde accordynge to the sence and meanyng of the latin sentences by shewing what they do value and counteruayle in our tongue, with admonitions set forth in the margyn so often as any suche phrase, that is to say, kynd of spekyng vsed of the latyns, ... And afore the seconde sceane of the fyrst acte, is a brefe introductory to haue some general knowledge of the dyuers sortes of meters vsed of our auctour in this comedy. And afore Acolastus balade is shewed of what kyndes of meters his balade is made of. And afore the syxte sceane of the fourthe acte, is a monition of the rhetorycall composytion vsed in that sceane ... Interpreted by Iohn Palsgraue