pour Ton plaisir Je suis dans une cage," which has been happily Englished as follows: "A little bird I am, Shut from the fields of air; And in my cage I sit and sing To Him who placed me there; Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleases Thee.

It appeared in 1553, and was entitled The Art of Rhetorique, for the use of all suche as are studious of eloquence, sette foorthe in Englishe by Thomas Wilson, and it was dedicated to John Dudley, Earl of Warwick.

His most popular work, judging at least from the quickly succeeding editions, appears to have been his first, The Rule of Reason, conteinynge the Art of Logique set forth in Englishe, published by Grafton in 1551, and dedicated to Edward VI.

And I dare sweare this, if some of their mothers were alive, thei were not able to tell what thei saie; and yet these fine English clerkes will saie thei speake in their mother tongueif a man should charge them for counterfeityng the kinges Englishe....

But I am of late more in loue wyth my Englishe versifying than with ryming: whyche I should haue done long since, if I would then haue followed your councell.

But if happly you dwell altogither in Iustinians Courte, and giue your selfe to be devoured of secreate studies, as of all likelyhood you doe, yet at least imparte some your olde or newe, Latine or Englishe, eloquent and gallant poesies to vs, from whose eves, you saye, you keepe in a manner nothing hidden.

I like your late Englishe hexameters so exceedingly well, that I also enure my penne sometime in that kinde:

He says,"I like your late Englishe Hexameters so exceedingly well, that I also enure my penne sometimes in that kinde....

A vainglorious knight, over-Englishing his travels, and wholly consecrated to singularity; the very Jacob's staff of compliment; a sir that hath lived to see the revolution of time in most of his apparel.

The sense and meaning of the word [Greek: genómenon], signifying made, or created, is so fixed and certain in this author, &c. This is but one of fifty instances in which the true Englishing of [Greek: genómenos, egéneto], &c. would have prevented all mistake.

Enter after a greate Tempestuous storme Mr. Ashburne an Englishe marchant and his man Godfrey.

Englishe. Ashb.

Englishe, sayst thou? Clowne.

Dr. Caius, when referring to the name, says "The Greyhound hath his name of this word gre; which word soundeth gradus in Latin, in Englishe degree, because among all dogges these are the most principall, occupying the chiefest place, and being simply and absolutely the best of the gentle kinde of Houndes.

This book is bound up in ancient binding with copies of the "Familiar Epistles" of the same writer, Englished by the same translator, 1582, and of his "Familiar Epistles," translated by Geffrey Fenton, 1582.

And I suppose you know verie well how we shall mayntayne 20 Moores cheaper than one Englishe servant.

"That best of poets (says Motteux) having so long continued a stranger to tolerable English, Mr. Milbourne pitied his hard fate; and seeing that several great men had undertaken some episodes of his Aeneis, without any design of Englishing the whole, he gave us the first book of it some years ago, with a design to go through the poem.

The noble translator states that it was lent him by his friend Master Morison, and finding the difference between the power regal and ecclesiastical so plainly set out, and so purely explained, that rather than his countrie should be utterly frustrated of so great fruyte as myght growe by redynge thereof, I thought it well-bestowed labour to turn it into Englishe.

The "Boke of Philip Sparrow," by the witty, but obscene Skelton, who wrote towards the close of the fifteenth century, says that "Gower's Englishe is old;" but the learned Dean Collet, in the early part of the succeeding century, studied not only Gower, but Chaucer, and even Lydgate, in order to improve and correct his own style.

Englished by Sir John Stradling.

Troilus and Criseyde (Troilus and Cressida) Love poem in five books englished anew by George Philip Krapp, with wood engravings by Eric Gill.

"The olde earle being soone hotte and soone cold was of the Englishe well beloved," is another report.

I live on contentedly enough, but feel rather unwilling to be re-Englished, after once attaining that higher transatlantic development.

Sic lare perpetuo, sic turba sospite, solus Flebilis in terra sit lapis iste tua' so prettily Englished by Leigh Hunt: 'Underneath this greedy stone Lies little sweet Erotion, Whom the Fates with hearts as cold Nipped away at six years old.

The majority of these works were written in French, which was the court language of England in the mediaeval ages; but the story was "Englished" by Malory in the fourteenth century.