Mixture of Elements in our Language. 



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can even yet be obtained. Sound criticism would show as much 

 diflerence between our local dialects, whether even Anglian, 

 or South, or West-Saxon, as between the Doric and Attic 

 of Greece. I have dealt only with the broader features of 

 the Old-English tongue, as it is still spoken in the Forest. 

 Enough, however, I trust, has been shown of the value of pro- 

 vincialisms, even when collected over so limited a space. Every- 

 where in England we shall find Teutonic words, which are not 

 so much the mould into which all other forms have been cast, as 

 the living germ of our language. Mixed and imbedded with 

 these, as we have also seen, we shall meet Keltic and Romance, 

 by both of which our language has been so influenced and 

 modified. Let us not be ashamed to collect them ; for by 

 them we may explain not only obscure passages in our old 

 authors, but doubtful points in our very history. 



-sro-J'^aP*''^^' 





Bushey Bratley (Another View). 



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