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ime have likewise
passed into forgetfulness; and De Worde's publications are mere
literary rarities among book-collectors. The purity and stability of
languagetooon which you found your claims to perpetuityhave been
the fallacious dependence of authors of every ageeven back to the
times of the worthy Robert of Gloucesterwho wrote his history in
rhymes of mongrel Saxon.* Even now many talk of Spenser's 'well of
pure English undefiled' as if the language ever sprang from a well or
fountain-headand was not rather a mere confluence of various
tonguesperpetually subject to changes and intermixtures. It is
this which has made English literature so extremely mutableand the
reputation built upon it so fleeting. Unless thought can be
committed to something more permanent and unchangeable than such a
mediumeven thought must share the fate of every thing elseand fall
into decay. This should serve as a check upon the vanity and
exultation of the most popular writer. He finds the language in
which he has embarked his fame gradually alteringand subject to
the dilapidations of time and the caprice of fashion. He looks back
and beholds the early authors of his countryonce the favorites of
their daysupplanted by modern wriyilai：
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