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Men shal giue the patient medicines confortatiue and reparatiue, that restore the spirites, and bringeth them againe.

The reason why our distressed young teacher found it the devil's own job to get the students to write was probably basically that they were not led to believe that written work was expected of them.

I trow you must excomunicate me, or els you must goe without their companie, or we shall wante no quareling; but let them pass.