sent Use is the final Judge of Language,
(the Verse is too well known to need quoting)
Words going off and perishing like Leaves, and new ones coming in
their Places_, [60-62]
et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem si
Graeco fonte cadent, parce detorta. quid autem
Caecilio Plautoque dabit Romanus ademptum 55
Vergilio Varioque? ego cur, acquirere pauca
si possum, invideor, cum lingua Catonis et Enni
sermonem patrium ditaverit et nova rerum
signatum praesente nota producere nomen.
ut silvae foliis privos mutantur in annos, 60
prima cadunt ita verborum vetus interit aetas
et iuvenum ritu florent modo nata vigentque.
_Il s'est forme_ ...
Except for clear typographical errors, the French text was left
unchanged because it is impossible to know where the errors originated.
All accents are as printed.
les Ducs [text has Dues]
les Comites [spelling unchanged: modern form is Comtes]
les Chevalier Windham [error for le]
Fils du Garde des Seaux
[Error for Sceaux? In modern French, "seau" is a coal-scuttle while
"sceau" is a seal (here, Lord Keeper of the Seal)]
Swif [error for Swift]
Prior Arbuthnott [missing , or ; between names]
Medicin du Duc [text has Due, as above; spelling "Medicin" unchanged]
les Deux autre, [error for autres]
s'assemblant tous les Jeudis [text has tons]
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