ABSTRACT
It may be objected that such patching maketh…[a] hotch-pot of our tongue, and in effect brings the same rather to a Babelish confusion than any one entire language. It may again be answered, that this theft of words is not less warranted by the priviledge of a prescription, antient and universal, than was that of goods among the Lacedemonians by an enacted law; for so the Greeks robbed the Hebrews, the Latins the Greeks (which filching Cicero with a large discourse in his Book de Oratore defendeth) and (in a manner) all other Christian Nations the Latine.
