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tion. But for that, &quot; tempori permittendum,&quot; it is 

 to be left to time. For considering that both 

 languages do concur in the principal office and duty 

 of a language, which is to make a man s self under 

 stood : for the rest, it is rather to be accounted, as 

 was said, a diversity of dialect than of language : 

 and, as I said in my first writing, it is like to bring 

 forth the enriching of one language, by compound 

 ing and taking in the proper and significant words 

 of either tongue, rather than a continuance of two 

 languages. 



For leagues and confederacies, it is true, that 

 neither nation is now in hostility with any state, 

 wherewith the other nation is in amity : but yet so, 

 as the leagues and treaties have been concluded 

 with ^either nation respectively, and not with both 

 jointly ; which may contain some diversity of arti 

 cles of straitness of amity with one more than with 

 the other. 



But many of these matters may perhaps be of 

 that kind, as may fall within that rule, &quot; In veste 

 &quot; varietas sit, scissura non sit.&quot; 



Now to descend to the particular points wherein 

 the realms stand severed and divided, over and 

 besides the former six points of separation, which I 

 have noted and placed as defects or abatements of the 

 six points of the union, and therefore shall not need 

 to be repeated : the points, I say, yet remaining, 

 I will divide into external and internal. 



The external points therefore of the separation 

 are four. 



