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But to the purpose--for we cite our faults
That they may hold excused our lawless lives;
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But to the purpose--for we cite our faults
That they may hold excused our lawless lives;
And partly, seeing you are beautified
With goodly shape, and by your own report
A linguist, and a man of such perfection
As we do in our quality much want--
I love the language, that soft bastard Latin,
Which melts like kisses from a female mouth.
I love the language, that soft bastard Latin,
Which melts like kisses from a female mouth.
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises
one, slights the other.
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises
one, slights the other.
Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.
Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.
He plays o' th' viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four
languages word for word without book, and hath all read more
He plays o' th' viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four
languages word for word without book, and hath all the good gifts
of nature.
A Babylonish dialect
Which learned pedants much affect.
A Babylonish dialect
Which learned pedants much affect.
He attempts to use language which he does not know.
[Lat., Negatas artifex sequi voces.]
He attempts to use language which he does not know.
[Lat., Negatas artifex sequi voces.]
It is Hebrew to me.
[Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]
It is Hebrew to me.
[Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]
He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease
Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas.
He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease
Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas.
