gh,
scauantz, car ja soit que art soit imitatrice de nature lensuiuant de
bien pres,

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yet neuerthelesse can nat she ouertake her. Wherfore the sayd
composytours
sy ne la peult elle toutefois aconsuiuir. Pourquoy les ditz
compilateurs

all togyder leanyng to the same ben by nature in sondrie places checked
reproued
du tout adherens a icelle sont par nature en diuers lieux cancelles
repris

and corrected. Shulde it nat seme a thynge selde and strange to se a
Frenchman
et corrigez. Ne sembleroit ce point chose rare et estrange ueoir ung
Francois

endeuoir and inforce himself to teche unto the Germayns the langage of
Almaine:
se ingerer et efforcer dapprendre aux Allemans la lange
tyoise,

ye and that more over is, upon the same to compyle rules and principles,
how beit
uoire et qui plus est, sur icelle composer regles et principes,
combien

that agaynst me and my reason some body myght say, that one
que contre moy et ma rayson quelque ung pourroit dire que on

shulde fynde no body whiche shulde teche Hebreu, Greke, nor Laten, if it
were nat laufull
ne trouueroit ame qui ensegneroit Hebrieu, Grec, ne Latin, sil
ne loisoit

to any body so to do but to him which shulde have it of nature: to whom
I
a auscun de ce faire sinon a celui qui laroit de nature: a quoy
je

answere that it is another thyng to teche and instruct by the principles
respons que cest aultre chose densegner et daprendre par les principes

and reules made by divers well expertz auctours, by great space and
longe proces
et regles faictz par diuers expertz aucteurs, par interualle et
diuturnite

of longe tyme well approved, than at the fyrst metyng and nat havyng a
de long temps bien approuueez, que de premiere abordee et nauoir ung

language but meanely and as a thynge borowed to be wyllyng by and by
langage que moienement et come par emprunt, en uoulloir cy pris cy mis,

nat only instructe the others, but also to compyle upon the same
reules
non seullement ensegner les aultres, mais aussy composer sur ce
regles

certayne, the whiche doyng is nat graunted but unto ryght few of them
whiche
infallibles, ce que scauoir faire nest ottroie a bien peu de ceulz
qui

ben borne of the sayd langage, for touchyng my self to whom the
sayd
sont mesme natif du dict langage, car touchant moy mesmes a q