Note 8 — THE HOLY HOUSE OF LORETTO ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY

Of these numerous versions of the story, made in 1635, one is in English, one in Lowland Scotch, containing all the peculiarities of diction with which every one is so familiar from the nearly contemporary conversations of King James I, in The Fortunes of Nigel; showing clearly that at that time these two dialects of English were regarded as two distinct languages, each unintelligible to the speaker of the other.