Middle English Creole

Famous quotes containing the words middle and/or english:

    “For rhetoric, he could not ope
    His mouth, but out there flew a trope;
    And when he happen’d to break off
    I’ th’ middle of his speech, or cough,
    H’ had hard words ready to show why,
    And tell what rules he did it by;”
    —Samuel Butler (1612–1680)

    “The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.”
    —Thomas Beecham (1879–1961)