Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism (Penguin Classics) by

Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780141439389
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2004-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

And, the more to show that he is so, we shall see him evermore in all places and to all persons repeating his own compositions, and quem vero arripuit, tenet occiditque legendo.*111

Next to this deformity stands our affectation, wherein we always bewray* ourselves to be both unkind and unnatural to our own native language in disguising or forging strange or unusual words, as if it were to make our verse seem another kind of speech out of the course of our usual practice, displacing our words or investing new only upon a singularity, when our own accustomed phrase, set in the due place, would express us more familiarly and to better delight than all this idle affectation of antiquity or novelty can ever do.112 And I cannot but wonder at the strange presumption of some men that dare so audaciously adventure to introduce any whatsoever foreign words, be they never so strange, and of themselves, as it were, without a parliament, without any consent or allowance, establish them as free-denizens* in our language. But this is but a character of that perpetual revolution which we see to be in all things that never remain the same, and we must herein be content to submit ourselves to the law of time, which in few years will make all that for which we now contend nothing.

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