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fectly differentiated, and used somewhat 

 indiscriminately ; but to revive this thing 

 now is to breed confusion, to step back- 

 ward and downward. It is as bad as re- 

 storing the useless tags that the horse once 

 had on each side of his feet where for- 

 merly there were other toes. In their day 

 these oddities of spelling reflected their 

 time; to import them into our present 

 day is not only opposed to common sense, 

 it is as dishonest as if we were to stamp 

 a modern product * Anno Dom.CC* Sup- 

 pose, now, one of these spurious imitative 

 inscriptions to be dug up five hundred years 

 hence. Though only five hundred years 

 old, the internal evidence makes it double 

 that age, thus lending itself to a lie and 

 building up an abominable deceit." 



"Thou art all wronge," said the anti- 

 quary. '' Ye delycious quaintnesse of ye 



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