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And who in time knowes whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores
This gaine of our best glorie shal be sent,
T’inrich unknowing Nations with our stores?
What worlds in th’yet unformed Occident
May come refin’d with th’accents that are ours?
- Samuel Daniel
Attribution: Samuel Daniel (c. 1562–1619), British poet, dramatist. Musophilus, Poetical Essays (1599).

Categories: Dramatist, Language

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