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Waveform Audio File Format  |  1995-06-02  |  25.4 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  20 minutes, 6 seconds
Transcription: from the preface to William Caxton's Iniros. And certainly our language no us'd, vary'd far from that which was us'd and spoken when I was born. For we English men been born under the domination of the moon, which is never steadfast, but ever wavering, vexing on season, and wharneth and discresseth another And that coming English, that is spoken in own share, varyeth from another in so much, that in my days happened, that certain merchants were in a ship in Temes, for to have sallied over the sea into Zeeland. And for lack of wind, they tarried at a foreland, and went to land for to refresh th ...