upon this silly kind of Device, and made use of an Eccho who seems to have been a very extraordinary Linguist, for she answers the Person she talks with in
Latin, Greek
, and
Hebrew
, according as she found the Syllables which she was to repeat in any one of those learned Languages.
Hudibras
, in Ridicule of this false kind of Wit, has described
Bruin
bewailing the Loss of his Bear to a solitary Eccho, who is of great used to the Poet in several Disticks, as she does not only repeat after him, but helps out his Verse, and furnishes him with
Rhymes