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Excerpt from A Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in Use in Wiltshire "Our sparkfull youth laugh at their great grandfathers English, who had more care to do well, than to speak minion like, and left more glory to us by their exploiting of great acts than we shall do by our forging anew words and uncuth phrases. "Great, verily, was the glory of our tongue before the Norman Conquest, in this, that the Old English could express most aptly all the conceits of the mind in their own tongue without borrowing from any." - Camden's Remaine, p. 25, edit. 1636. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.