Hough gruntough wough Thomough Coriatough, Adcough robunquogh
Warawogh bogh Comitogh sogh wogh termonatogrogh,
Callimogh gogh whobogh Ragamogh demagorgogh palemogh,
Lomerogh nogh Tottertogh illemortogh eagh Allaquemquogh
Toracominogh Jagogh Jamerogh mogh Carnogh pelepsogh,
Animogh trogh deradrogh maramogh hogh Flondrogh calepsogh.
This, Taylor says, must be pronounced with the accent of the grunting
of a hog. He gives no directions for pronouncing the second specimen,
which is in the Utopian tongue.
Nortumblum callimumquash omystoliton quashte burashte
Scribuke woshtay solusbay perambulatushte;
Grekay sous Turkay Paphay zums Jerusalushte.
Neptus esht Ealors Interrimoy diz dolorushte,
Confabuloy Odcumbay Prozeugmolliton tymorumynoy,
Omulus oratushte paralescus tolliton umbroy.
The Water Poet gave notice as Professor of these tongues that he was
willing to instruct any gentlemen or others who might be desirous of
learning them.
But with regard to a gift of tongues either known or unknown there are
more things than are dreamt of in the Irvingite philosophy or in the
Lerry-cum-twang school. It was a received opinion in the seventeenth
century that maniacs, and other persons afflicted with morbid
melancholy, spoke in strange languages, and foretold things that were
to come, by virtue,—that is to say—in consequence of their mental
malady. But some philosophers who in the march of intellect were in
advance of their age, denied the fact, and accounted for the
persuasion by supposing that such patients, when in a state of great
agitation, uttered unmeaning words or sounds which ignorant people
took to be Greek, Latin or Hebrew, merely because they could not
understand them. Two questions therefore arose; whether the received
opinion were true? and if it were true, how was the fact to be
accounted for?
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