Then even as the Italian Potentates of these Dayes make no difference
in their Pedigrees and Successions, between'the Bed lawfull or
unlawfull, where either an utterward or a better desert doth force
or entice them thereunto: so may the consenting practise of these
Nations passe for a just Legitimation of these bastard Words,
which either Necessitie or Convenience hath induced them to adopt.
For our owne parts, we employ the borrowed Ware so farre to
our advantage, that we raise a profit of new words from the
same Stock, which yet in their owne Country are not marchantable.
For example, we deduce divers words from the Latine, which in the
Latine itselfe cannot be yeelded: as the verbs, to aire, to beard,
to crosse, to flame, and their Derivations, ayring, ayred,
bearder, bearding, bearded, &c. as also closer, closely, closenesse,
glosingly, hourely, majesticall, majestically. In like sort we
grasse upon French words those Buds, to which that soile affordeth
no growth; as, chiefly, faultie, slavish, precisenesse.
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