[Sidenote: Solecismus, or Incongruitie.] Your next intollerable vice is solecismus or incongruitie, as when we speake halfe English, that is by misusing the Grammaticall rules to be obserued in cases, genders, tenses, and such like, euery poore scholler knowes the fault, & cals it the breaking of Priscians head, for he was among the Latines a principall Grammarian.
[Sidenote: Cacozelia, or Fonde affectation.] Ye haue another intollerable ill maner of speach, which by the Greekes originall we may call fonde affectation and is when we affect new words and phrases other then the good speakers and writers in any language, or then custome hath allowed, & is the common fault of young schollers not halfe well studied before they come from the Vniuersitie or schooles, and when they come to their friends, or happen to get some benefice or other promotion in their countreys, will seeme to coigne fine wordes out of the Latin, and to vse new fangled speaches, thereby to shew thenselues among the ignorant the better learned.
[Sidenote: Soraismus, or The mingle
mangle.]
Another of your intollerable vices is that which the
Greekes call Soraismus, & we may call the [mingle
mangle] as when we make our speach or writinges
of sundry languages vsing some Italian word, or French,
or Spanish, or Dutch, or Scottish, not for the nonce
or for any purpose (which were in part excusable)
but ignorantly and affectedly as one that said vsing
this French word Roy, to make ryme with another
verse, thus.
O mightie Lord of loue, dame Venus
onely ioy,
Whose Princely power exceedes ech other
heauenly roy.
The verse is good but the terme peeuishly affected.
Another of reasonable good facilitie in translation finding certaine of the hymnes of Pyndarus and of Anacreons odes, and other Lirickes among the Greekes very well translated by Rounsard the French Poet, & applied to the honour of a great Prince in France, comes our minion and translates the same out of French into English, and applieth them to the honour of a great noble man in England (wherein


