[1] "Curiosities of Literature," Art. "HISTORY OF NEW WORDS."
[2] These are political squibs thrown out by the mobocracy in the
reign of Richard the Second. They are preserved in Mr. Turner's
"History of England." I print them in their modern orthography. The
first specimen runs in familiar rhymes:--
"Jack the Miller asked help to turn his mill aright. He hath ground
small, small! The King's son of Heaven he shall pay for all. Look thy
Mill go aright with the four sails, and the post stand in
steadfastness. With Right and with Might, with Skill and with Will,
let Might help Right, and Skill go before Will, and Right before
Might, then goes our Mill aright, and if Might go before Right, and
Will before Skill, then is our Mill mis adyght."