That teacheth trickes eleuen and twentie long, / To tame a ſhrew, and charme her chattering tongue.

They are really nothing. Just the simplest little thrippenny bunch.

I think what now must be recognized is that to successfully educate many of these children - because the families are no longer performing the function they once did of delivering a school-ready child at age 5.

There with great ioyance and with gladſome glee, / Of faire Pœana I receiued was, / And oft imbraſt, as if that I were hee, / And with kind words accoyd, vowing great loue to mee.