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that will avoyde this follie, and acquaint themselves with
the plainest and best kind of speech, must seek from time
to time for such words as are commonlie received, and
such as properly may expresse in plaine manner, the
whole conceit of their mind. (88)
That we must “use altogether one manner of language” is
a perfectly natural deduction from visual experience of the
printed vernacular. And as Bacon showed, the reduction of
talents and experience to a single level is the very crux of
applied knowledge. But it is quite destructive of “the criterion of
decorum,” as Rosemond Tuve designates, in Elizabethan and
Metaphysical Imagery , the principle that had informed the
language arts continuously from the Greeks to the
Renaissance.