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The Grammar of English Grammars

CHAPTER VII
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The soules of men are substances: but the soules of other creatures seeme not to be substances; because they haue no beeing out of the bodies in which they are."-- WILLIAM PERKINS: _Theol.
Works, folio_, p.

155.
28.

_Examples written about the beginning of Elizabeth's reign .-- 1558_.
"Who can perswade, when treason is aboue reason; and mighte ruleth righte; and it is had for lawfull, whatsoever is lustfull; and commotioners are better than commissioners; and common woe is named common weale ?"--SIR JOHN CHEKE.

"If a yong jentleman will venture him selfe into the companie of ruffians, it is over great a jeopardie, lest their facions, maners, thoughts, taulke, and dedes, will verie sone be over like."-- ROGER ASCHAM.
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_Reign of Mary the Bigot, 1558 to 1553 .-- Example written about 1555_.
"And after that Philosophy had spoken these wordes the said companye of the musys poeticall beynge rebukyd and sad, caste downe their countenaunce to the grounde, and by blussyng confessed their shamefastnes, and went out of the dores.


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