The non-dramatic works of Thomas DekkerIn five volumes . Lanthorne & Candle-light, Or The Bell-mans fecond Nights walke. Of Canting, How long it hath beene a language: how it comesto bee a language : how it is deriued, & bywhom it is fpoken. CHAP. I. Hen all the World was but oneKingdome, all the People 0ne languagein that Kingdome fpake ^Sdttbut one language. Athe besinnin-man could trauell in thofe dayesneither by Sea nor land, but he mett his Country-men & none others. Two could not then ftand gabling with ftrangetongues, and confpire together (to his owne face)how to cut a third mans throa
The non-dramatic works of Thomas DekkerIn five volumes . Lanthorne & Candle-light, Or The Bell-mans fecond Nights walke. Of Canting, How long it hath beene a language: how it comesto bee a language : how it is deriued, & bywhom it is fpoken. CHAP. I. Hen all the World was but oneKingdome, all the People 0ne languagein that Kingdome fpake ^Sdttbut one language. Athe besinnin-man could trauell in thofe dayesneither by Sea nor land, but he mett his Country-men & none others. Two could not then ftand gabling with ftrangetongues, and confpire together (to his owne face)how to cut a third mans throat, but he might. 188 LANTHORNE AND CANDLE-LIGHT. vnderftand them. There was no Spaniard (in thatAge) to Braue his enemy in the Rich and LoftyCajiilian: no Romaine Orator to plead in theRethorkall and Fluent Latine: no Italian to courthis Miftris in the fweete and Amorous Thufcane :no French-man to parley in the full and {latelyphrafe of Orleans : no Germaine to thunder outthe high and ratling Dutch: the vnfruitfullcrabbed Irifli, and the Voluble fignificant Welch,were not then fo much as fpoken of: the quickScottifli Dialed: (fitter to the Englijli) had not thena tongue, neither were the ftringes of the Englijhfpeech (in thofe times) vntyed. When/fhe firftlearnd to fpeake, it was but a broken language :the fingleft and the fimpleft Words flowed fromher vtterace : for fhe dealt in nothing but in Mono-fillables, (as if to haue fpoken words of greaterlength would haue crackt her Voice) by whichmeanes her Eloquence was pooreft, yet hardeft tolearne, and fo (but for neceffity) not regardedamogft Strangers.
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