Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I do fear no man, all men feareth me; I overcome my adverfaries by land and by fea: I had no peer, if to my felf I were true; Becaufe I am not fo, divers times do I rue; Yet I lack nothing: I have all things at will, If I were wife and would hold my felf ftill, And meddle with no matters but to me pertaining, But ever to be true to God and my King. But I have fuch matters rowling in my pate, That I will and do I cannot tell what. No man mail let me, but I will have my mind, And to father, mother, and friend I'l be unkind. I will follow mine own mind and mine old trade, Who mail let me ? the divels nails are unpar’d; Yet above all things new fafhions I love well, And to wear them my thrift I will fell. In all this world I mail have but a time: Hold the cup, good fellow, here is thine and mine. Languages. the people we will now proceed to the Languages. Here would Scholars fhew you the firft confufion of Languages out f Mofes, that the Gods had their peculiar tongue out of Homer; that bruit Beafts, Birds and Fifhes, had their own proper languages out of Clemens Alexandrinus. They would teach you out of Euphorus, that there were but two and fifty tongues in the world, becaufe fo in pfaim many fouls out of Jacob defcended into Egypt; I04’ and out of Arnobius, that there were feventy two. Albeit Timofthenes reporteth that in Diofcurias, a mart Town of Colchis, there trafficked three hundred Nations of divers languages; And howfoever our Indian or American difcoverers fay, that inevery fourfcore mile in America, and in every valley almoft of Peru, you mall find a new language. Neither would they omit the Ifland where the people have cloven tongues out of the fabulous Narrations of Diodorus Siculus; yea, they would lafh…
