Re: Breton, Cornish & French

Chess One wrote:
>
> should you wish to regress 400 years further, there is not the slightest

> /evidence/ that Will Shakespeare wrote his own Works. And I do mean 
> nothing evident whatever! This is not to intrigue on alternate authors, 
> but for the most famous and studied person in the literary history of
the 
> world to not possess a scintilla of evidence of his author****p... shall
we 
> take some pause here?

I suppose it rather depends what you mean by "evidence", or "Works" - or 
"nothing"...

To the Right Honourable Henry Wriothesley,
Earl of Southampton and Baron of Titchfield

Right Honourable

I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your 
lord****p, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop
to 
sup****t so weak a burden: only if you honour seem but pleased, I account 
myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I

have honoured you with some graver labour. But if the first heir of my 
invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a godfather,
and 
never after ear so barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a 
harvest. I leave it to your honourable survey, and your honour to your 
heart's content; which I wish may always answer your own wish and the 
world's hopeful expectation.

                                    Your honour's in all duty,
                                           William Shakespeare
-- 
John Briggs