stability of language, too, on uity, o times of t of Gloucester, ongues perpetually subject to cermixtures. It is terature so extremely mutable, and tation built upon it so   ?eeting. Unless t can be committed to somet and unc must se of everyto decay. ty and exultation of t popular er. ering and subject to tions of time and try, once tes of ted by modern ers. A fes can only be relis taste of ticipates, e of  may be admired in its day and y, iquated and obsolete, until it s as unintelligible in its native land as an Egyptian obelisk or one of tions said to exist in ts of tartary. quot;I declare,quot; added I, ion, quot;e a modern library, ?lled o sit do in all tary array, and re?ected t in one  one of tence.quot;

    * quot;In Latin and Frenctes  delyte to endite, and  certes t speaken tasye as ament of Love.

    + ;After vell f Geffry Cime of Ricer te, monke of Berrie, our said toong  passe, notanding t it never came unto type of perfection until time of Queen Elizabet ers, ure of to t praise and mortal commendation.quot;

    quot;A; said ttle quarto, ;I see  is: t Sir Pately plays and Mirror for Magistrates, or t;

    quot;taken,quot; said I; quot;ters ion, ality of s, delicate images, and graceful turns of language, is noioned. Sackville rutted into obscurity; and even Lyly, tings  of a court, and apparently perpetuated by a proverb, is no time, ings and troversies. ave after erature il t it is only no some industrious diver after fragments of antiquity brings