a©4 Ztfz of or; 
a»s concerning their priority ; which King P/am~ 
metjchas undertook to decide , thus ; He com- 
manded two infants to be brought up by a Shep- 
herd , amongft the Sheep, and commanded him, 
that no one inould fpeak a word to them, and that 
they fhould fuck a Go<if, which accordingly was 
done ; the Shepherd was to obferve the firft word 
that they fpake ; at a certain time the Shepherd 
opening the door, both of them being hand in 
hand, cryed out Beccnty which they often repeat- 
ed ; this was told to the King ; he enquired what 
that word fignified in any language, and they 
found, after long fearch, that it fignined bread, a- 
mong thtPhngians I and fo ever after the Egyp- 
tians acknowledged the Phrygians to be the more 
ancient Nation ; although Wek^n fignifieth Bread, 
and Bechet fignifieth a Baker ; and the Phrygians 
did ufe the Germane Tongue, as Hiftorians tell usj 
yet, no doubt but they expreiled that inarticulate 
found which they heard from the Sheep ; for there 
is no tongue or language that is natural to any one, 
but all are to be learned .* iht Hebrew tongue is 
not natural to the Jew • for if a Jew be born in 
Germany, PraneCyOt he will fpeak the lan- 
guage of the Countrey where he is born ; and will 
as foon learn Hebrew there, by the help of a Mailer 
( without which, he cannot attain it in his own 
Countrey ) as his own Countr^y : but this by the 
way. 
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