ABSTRACT

John Palsgrave Lesclarcissement De La Langue Francoyse 1530 (London?: Richard Pynson/Iohan Haukyns, 1530) translates 'I Recyte I make rehersal of ones saying' as ]e recite; his next English sentence is 'He hath a synguler memorie he recyted a! our hole comunycacion and myssed nat a worde' (fol. 334r); 'I Reherce a thyng that hath ben sayd' is translated as Ie recite, & ie reporte (fol. 335V); and 'I Repete I reherce my lesson or a thynge that I haue herde' as Ie repete, with the example: 'By that tyme that I haue repeted my lesson halfe a dosen tymes vpon the booke I haue it without booke' (fol. 338V).