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respect. Professional teachers of modern languages likewise complain of the lack of seriousness on the part of many of their pupils. John Florio,[1] for example, bewails the fact that when they have learned two words of Spanish, three words of French, and four words of Italian, they think they have [*** (omitted)] We may therefore safely conclude that French was the language commonly spoken by Englishmen in their intercourse with foreigners, although Latin was sometimes used in conversation, and Italians were occasionally addressed in their *[Footnote: give honourable testimonye." Best known of these learned observers was Scaliger (<i>Scaligeriana</i>, Cologne, 1695, p. 134). Similar eulogies in verse were left by French poets: Ronsard, <i>Elegies, Mascarades et Bergeries</i> (1561), reproduced in <i>Le Bocage royal</i> (1567); Jacques Grévin, <i>Chant du cygne</i>; Du Bartas, <i>Second Week</i>; and Agrippa d'Aubigné; also by John Florio, <i>First Frutes</i>, 1578, ch. xiii.] [Footnote 1: <i>First Frutes</i>, 1578, ch. i.][*** Footnotes for this page.]

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