"Our own tung should be written cleane and pure, vnmixt and vnmangled with borrowing of other tunges."
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John Cheke
Sir John Cheke (16 June 1514 – 13 September 1557) was an English classical scholar and statesman, notable as the first Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University.
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