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While Roger Ascham renders due homage to the linguistic attainments of his queen,[3] he finds it necessary to reproach [*** (omitted)] [Footnote 3: Elizabeth's command of foreign languages was constantly a subject of remark. Dr. William Turner in the dedication of his <i>Herbal</i> (1568) to the queen, addresses her thus: "As to your knowledge of Latin and Greek, French, Italian, and others also, not only your own faythful subiectes, beynge far from all suspicion of flattery, bear witness, but also strangers, men of great learninge, in their books set out in Latin tonge,]*

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