[220] We have reason to be thankful to Sir Thomas for his kindness in refraining from the style of composition which he here indicates, for we can scarcely credit his assurance that the results would have been less terrifying than the description of the processes by which they would have been reached. There is no need for an apology, for he has really done pretty well as it is. Mr Ruskin had once a vision of ten thousand school-inspectors assembled on Cader Idris. What horror would seize such a company, if they were treated as a class in elementary English, and the above passage were read out as an exercise in dictation! Nay, it is to be feared that even the more august assembly in Dover House, the Lords of Education themselves, would be panic-stricken at such a task. Only Macaulay's "schoolboy" would probably be found to enter upon it with unblenched countenance, and to accomplish it successfully. [221] This reminds us of Bottom the weaver. "I will roar that I will do any man's heart good to hear me.... [Yet not to frighten the ladies.] I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove: I will roar you an 'twere any nightingale" (_Midsummer-Night's Dream_, I. ii.). [222] _Works_, pp. 292, 293. [223] _Logopandecteision_, or an INTRODUCTION to the UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE. Digested into these Six several Books, Neaudethaumata, Chrestasebeia, Cleronomaporia, Chryseomystes, Neleodicastes, and Philoponauxesis. By Sir Thomas Urquhart of _Cromartie_, Knight. Now lately contrived and published, both for his own utilie, and that of all pregnant and ingenious Spirits. _Credere quaerenti nonne haic justissima res est? Qui non plura cupit, quam ratio ipsa jubet._ _Englished thus_, To grant him his demands, were it not just? Who craves no more, then [than] reason says he must. _London._ Printed, and are to be sold by _Giles Calvert_ at the _Black Spread Eagle_ at the west-end of _Pauls_; and by _Richard Tomlins_ at the Sun and Bible near Pye-corner. 1653.