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" William Caxton, a simple person, have endeavoured me to write ' first over all the said book of Polychronicon, — somewhat have ' changed the rude and olde English, that is to wit, certain ' words, which in these days we neither used ne understood... "
Outlines of Comparative Philology: With a Sketch of the Languages of Europe ... - Page 142
by Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1853 - 434 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 92

1850 - 638 pages
...person, have endeavoured me to write ' first over all the said book of Polychronicon, — somewhat have ' changed the rude and olde English, that is to wit,...which in these days we neither used ne understood., And again : — ' Some gentlemen blamed me, saying that in my ' translations, I have over curious terms,...
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The Journal of Education for Upper Canada, Volumes 3-4

Education - 1850 - 398 pages
...to write first over all the said book of PolyAronicon, — somewhat have changed the rude and oído English, that is to wit, certain words, which in these days we neither used ne understood." And again: "Some gentlemen blamed me, saying that in my translations, I have over curious terms, which...
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Outlines of Comparative Philology: With a Sketch of the Languages of Europe ...

Maximilian Schele de Vere - Comparative linguistics - 1853 - 448 pages
...inorganic amalgamation and unsettled grammar. Before he printed Higden's Polychronicon, he tells us in his own words, he " wrote over all the said book,...published, he found he had CAXTON AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 148 chosen the very worst MS. existing, and at once undertook a second edition, " for to satisfy the...
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Essays, Selected from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review: Supplementary vol

Henry Rogers - English essays - 1855 - 428 pages
...person, have endeavoured me to write first over all the said book of Polychronicon, — somewhat have changed the rude and olde English, that is to wit, certain words, which in these days be neither used ne understood.' And again: — 'Some gentlemen blamed me, saying that in my translations,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 28

American periodicals - 1851 - 644 pages
...person, have endeavored me to write first over all the said book of Polychronicon — somewhat have changed the rude and olde English, that is to wit,...which in these days we neither used ne understood." And again : — " Some gentlemen blamed me, saying that in my translations, I have over curious terms,...
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THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND

THE REV. THOMAS MILNER - 1853 - 886 pages
..." I, William Caxton, a simple person, have endeavoured me to write over all the said book — have changed the rude and olde English, that is to wit,...which in these days we neither used ne understood — and certainly, our language now used varyeth far from that which was spoken when I was born ; for...
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