Seeing then we borrow (and that
not shamefully) from the Dutch, the Britaine, the Roman, the Dane,
the French, the Italian, and Spaniard, how can our Stock be other
than exceeding plentifull? It may be objected, that such patching
maketh Littletons Hotch-pot of our Tongue, and in effect, brings the
same rather to a Babelish Confusion, than any one entire Language.
It may again be answered, that this Theft of Words is no less
warranted by the Priviledge of a Prescription ancient and universall,
than was that of Goods among the Lacedemonians by an enacted Law:
for so the Greekes robbed the Hebrewes, the Latines the Greeks,
(which filching, Cicero with a large Discourse in his Books
de Oratore defendeth) and (in a manner) all other Christian Nations
the Latine. For evidence hereof many Sentences may be produced
consisting of words, that in their Original are Latine; and yet
(save some smal variance in their Terminations) fall out al one
with the French, Dutch, and English; as Ley, ceremonious persons,
Offer prelate preest, Clear candles flamme, in Temple Cloistre,
in Cholericke Temprature, Clisters Purgation is pestelent,
Pulers preservative, subtil Factors, Advocates notaries practize,
Papers Libells, Registers, Regent, Magesty in Palace hath tryumphant
Throne, Regiment, Sceptre, Vassels, Supplication, and such like.
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