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Saxon English was
and hard and rough kinde of speach, god wotte, when our
nation was brought first into acquaintance withall, but
now chaunged with vs into a farre more fine and easie
kind of vtterunce, and so polished and helped with new
and milder wordes that it is to be aduouched howe there
is no one speache vnder the sonne spoken in our time,
that hath or can haue more varietie of words, copie of
phrases, or figures or floures of eloquence, than hath our
English tongue. (94)
The reduction of tactile quality in life and language is ever
the mark of refinement. And it was not till the pre-Raphaelites
and Hopkins that a deliberate campaign for Saxon tactile
values in language was to begin in English. Yet tactility is the