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320 still lie unprinted. We may see the subscribers to the Early English Text Society reckoned, not by hundreds, but by thousands. Our German and Scandinavian kins&shy;folk will then no longer twit us with our carelessness of the hoard so dearly prized abroad; like them, we shall purge our language of needless foreign frippery, and shall reverence the good Teutonic masonry where&shy;with our forefathers built.

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