[637] "J'ay tousiours eu plus ordinaire hantise, plus de biens et d'honneur et de civile conversation de la nation Angloise que de nul aultre."

[638] Villiers had no doubt some previous knowledge of French. From the age of thirteen he had been taught at home by private tutors.

[639] Reliquiae Wottonianae, London, 1657, p. 76.

[640] 12º, pp. 386.

[641]

"Etranger desireux de nostre langue apprendre,
Employe en ce livret et ton temps et ton soin,
Que si d'enseignement plus ample il t'est besoin,
Viens t'en la vive voix de l'autheur mesme entendre."

[642] It differs from Les Desguisez, a comedy written by Godard in 1594.

[643] E. Winkler, "La Doctrine grammaticale d'après Maupas et Oudin," in Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, Heft 38, 1912.

[644] Towards the end of his career, Oudin was appointed to teach Louis XIV. Spanish and Italian; he was the author of several manuals for teaching these languages, and it is worthy of note that sometimes the German language is included.

[645] Printed with Nicot's edition of Aimar de Ranconnet's Thresor de la langue françoyse, Paris, 1606.