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Renaissance literary theory and practice

Note 12 — Chapter II · LATIN, GREEK, AND THE VERNACULARS

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Sir John Cheke, however, spoke as a scholar when he wrote to Hoby: “I am of opinion that our own tung shold be written cleane and pure, vnmixt and vnmangeled with borrowing of other tunges.” Quoted in Arber’s Introduction to Ascham’s Scholemaster, p. 5.

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