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/* A Colloquy, For Exercising Boys In Speaking Latin */
==A Colloquy, For Exercising Boys In Speaking Latin==
''First compiled by Aelfric, and added to by Aelfric Bata, his disciple.''<br>
{| cellpadding=0 cellpadding=0valign="top"|-| <div id="Scholar"></div><div id="Master"></div>'''''Scholar''''' || We boys beg you, Master, to teach us to speak Latin correctly, for we are ignorant, and we speak badly.|-
| '''''Master''''' || What do you wish to talk about?
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| ''Scholar'' || We do not care what we talk about, as long as our speech is correct, and useful, and not foolish, or base.
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|''Master''|| Are you willing to be flogged while learning?
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|''Scholar''|| We would rather be flogged that we may learn, than remain ignorant, but we know that you are kindly, and that you will not lay strokes upon us, unless we oblige you to do so.
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|''Master''|| I ask you what you are to talk about? What work have you?
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|''Scholar''|| I am preparing to be a monk, and every day I sing seven times with the brethren, and I am busy with reading and singing ; yet in the meantime I wish to learn to converse in the Latin language.
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|''Master''|| What do these companions of yours know?
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