And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation…. As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them…. ~Michel de Montaigne, “Upon some Verses of Virgill,” translated by John FlorioTPVgb 1603 version
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