But surely no Languages have been so straitly lock'd up as not to admit of commixture. The Irish, although they retain a kind of a Saxon Character, yet have admitted many words of Latin and English. In the Welch are found many words from Latin, some from Greek and Saxon. In what parity and incommixture the Language of that People stood which were casually discovered in the heart of _Spain_, between the Mountains of _Castile_, no longer ago than in the time of Duke _D' Alva_, we have not met with a good account any farther than that their words were Basquish or Cantabrian: but the present Basquensa one of the minor Mother Tongues of _Europe_, is not without commixture of Latin and Castilian, while we meet with _Santifica_, _tentationeten_, _Glaria_, _puissanea_, and four more in the short Form of the Lord's Prayer, set down by _Paulus Merula_: but although in this brief Form we may find such commixture, yet the bulk of their Language seems more distinct, consisting of words of no affinity unto others, of numerals totally different, of differing Grammatical Rule, as may be observed in the Dictionary and short _Basquensa_ Grammar, composed by _Raphael Nicoleta_, a Priest of _Bilboa_. And if they use the auxiliary Verbs of _Equin_ and _Ysan_, answerable unto _Hazer_ and _Ser_, to Have, and Be, in the Spanish, which Forms came in with the Northern Nations into the Italian, Spanish and French, and if that Form were used by them before, and crept not in from imitation of their neighbours, it may shew some ancienter traduction from Northern Nations, or else must seem very strange; since the Southern Nations had it not of old, and I know not whether any such mode be found in the Languages of any part of _America_. The Romans, who made the great commixture and alteration of Languages in the World, effected the same, not onely by their proper Language, but those also of their military Forces, employed in several Provinces, as holding a standing _Militia_ in all Countries, and commonly of strange Nations; so while the cohorts and Forces of the Britanes were quartered in _Ægypt_, _Armenia_, _Spain_, _Illyria_, etc. the Stablæsians and Dalmatians here, the Gauls, Spaniards and Germans in other Countries, and other Nations in theirs, they could not but leave many words behind them, and carry away many with them, which might make that in many words of very distinct Nations some may still remain of very unknown and doubtfull Genealogy. And if, as the learned _Buxhornius_ contendeth, the Scythian Language as the Mother Tongue runs through the Nations of _Europe_, and even as far as _Persia_, the community in many words between so many Nations, hath a more reasonable original traduction, and were rather derivable from the common Tongue diffused through them all, than from any particular Nation, which hath also borrowed and holdeth but at second hand.