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Our own tung shold be written cleane and pure, vnmixt and vnmangled with borrowing of other tunges.
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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
John Cheke
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Born:
June 16, 1514
Died:
September 13, 1557
(aged 43)
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Sir John Cheke was an English classical scholar and statesman, notable as the first Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University.
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