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Hume, Alexander

"Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles"

In this alsoe, if it please your
M_ajestie_ to put to your hand, you have al the windes of favour in your
sail; account, that al doe follow; judgement, that al doe reverence;
wisdom, that al admire; learning, that stupified our scholes hearing
a king borne, from tuelfe yeeres ald alwayes occupyed in materes of
state, moderat in theological and philosophical disputationes, to the
admiration of all that hard him, and speciallie them quha had spent al
their dayes in those studies.
[Footnote 3: "An Alvearie or Quadruple Dictionarie, containing
four sundrie tongues, namelie, English, Latine, Greeke and French
... by Jo. Baret. _London_, 1580." Folio. An edition was published
in 1573, with three languages only, the Greek not being included.]
[Footnote 4: "De recta et emendata Linguae Anglicae Scriptione
Dialogus. _Lutetiae_, 1568." 4to.]
Accept, dred Soveragne, your pover servantes myte. If it can confer anie
thing to the montan of your Majesties praise, and it wer but a clod, use
it _and_ the auctour as your's. Thus beseeking your grace to accep my
mint, and pardon my miss, commites your grace to the king of grace, to
grace your grace with al graces spiritual _and_ temporal.


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