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I haue nowe enterprised to describe in our vulgare tunge the fourme of a iuste publike weale: whiche mater I haue gathered as well moste noble autours (grekes and latynes) as by myne owne experience, I beinge continually trayned in some dayly affaires of the publike weale of this your moste noble realme all mooste from my chyldhode.

— Thomas Elyot The Boke named the Governour (1531)

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Quoted by K. T. Wilson, "The Letters of Sir Thomas Elyot", Studies in Philology, vol. 73, no. 5 (1976), p. xv

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