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 | | Another chops in with English Italianated, and applyeth the Italian phrase to our English speaking, the which is, as if an Orator, that professeth to vtter his minde in plaine Latine, would needs speake Poetrie, and far fetched colours of strange antiquitie. |
 | | Therefore, either wee must make a difference of English, and say, some is learned English, and other some is rude English, or the one is Court talke, the other is Country-speech, or els we must of necessitie banish all affected Rhetorique, and vse altogether one manner of language. |
 | | Those therefore that will auoyde this follie, and acquaint themselues with the plainest and best kind of speech, must seeke from time to time such words as are commonlie receiued, and such as properly may expresse in plaine manner, the whole conceit of their mind. |
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