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Show TH HISTOR TH O If by misfortune a rightwife man offende He gladly fuffereth a iufte correétion And him that him teacheth taketh for his frende Him felfe putting mekely unto fubiection Folowing his preceptes and good dire@ion But yf that one a foole rebuke or blame He fhall his teacher hate, flaunder and diffame Howbeit his wordes oft turne to his own fhame And his owne dartes retourne to him agayne And {o is he fore wounded with the fame About the year 1553 wrote Dr. Bilfon, a ma celebrated for the politenels of his ftyle, and th extent of his knowledge : what was the ftate of g language in his time, the following may be of yf to thow PRonunciation is an apte orderinge both of th clean.sh data import.tsv out README voyce, countenaunce, and all the whole bodye accordynge to the worthines of fuche woordes an matter as by fpeache are declared The vf hereo And in wo endeth, great mifery and payne LANGUAGE ENGLIS is fuch for any on vtteraunce though the that liket to hay It alfo proued full often is certayne prayfe for tellynge his tale in open aflemblie, tha hauing a good tongue, and a comelye countenaunce he fhal be thought to paflfe all other that haue th He that goeth right, ftedfaft, fure, and faft May him well mocke that goeth halting and lame And he that is white may well his fcornes caft Agaynft aman of Inde : but no man ought to blam Anothers vice, while he vieth the fame lik That they that on mockers alway their mindes caft Shail of all other be mocked at the laft learning Th matter maner as a fwete foundyng an beautifiet But whothat'of finne is cleaneindeede and thought forthe a meanne deuifed ballade ofa good inftrumente ftyrret Th comfortet May him well {corne whofe lining is ftarke nought {corne of Naball full dere fhould hau bought 1f Abigayl-his wife-difcrete and fage Ha not by kindnes right crafty meane bee fought The wrath of Dauid to temper and affwage Hath not two beares in their fury and rag Tw and fortie children rent and torne For they the prophete Helyfeus did fcorne ~Somight they curfe the time that they were borne For their mocking of this prophete diuine ‘So many other of this fort often mourn For their lewde mockes and fall into ruine Thusis it foly for wife men to incline To this lewde flocke of fooles, for fee thou thal JThem mofte fcorning that are moft bad of all The Lenuoy of Barclay to the fooles Ye mocking4ooles that in fcorne fet your ioy Proudly defpifing Gods punition "Take ye cxample by Cham the fonne of Noy Which laughed his father vato derifion Which him after curfed for his tranfgrefiion And made him feruaunt to all his lyne and ftocke So fhall ye caytifs at the conclufion Since ye are nought, and other fcorne and mocke Thus have I deduce the age of Alfred to tha imperfectly for want o deaft, in fuch a manne the Englifh language fro of Elizabeth 5 in fome part materials; but I hope, a that its progrefs may b bete th cauf in lik lute muche fettet Or as the found the hearers, an muche delite, fo a cleare foundyng voic much ou deintie eares with much {wete melodie, and caufeth vs to allowe the matte rather for the reporters fake, then the reporter fo th matters fake mouf oratour Demofthenes therfore beyn that fa afked what was the chiefe point in al oratorie, gaue the chiefe and onel praile to Pronunciation; being demaunded, wha was the feconde, and the thirde, he ftill mad atinfwere, Pronunciation, and would make non other aunfwere, till they lefte afkyng, declaryn hereby that arte without vtteraunce can dooe no thyng muc tongue geueth a certayne grace t cuerv mouet hau viteraunc withou art ca doo righ muche And no doubte that man is in outward appearaunce halfe a good clarke, thar-hath a clean tongue, and a comely gefture of his body. ZE{chine lykwyfe beyng bacnifhed his countrie through Demofthenes, when he had redde to the Rhodians hi own oration, and Demofthenes aunfwere thereunto by force whereof he was bannifhed and all the marueiled muche at the excellencie of the fame then (q d ZEfchines) you would have marueile muche more if you had heard hymfelfe fpeak it Thus beyng caft in miferie and bannithed for cuer, he could not but geue fuch greate reporte of hi deadly and mortal ennemy calily traced, and the gradations obferved, by whic it advanced from its firt rudenefs to its prefen elegance GRAM |