Text 106: Sir Thomas Elyot, The Gouernour, 1531 (iii) (facsimile)

Our modern translation:

But to return to my purpose: It shall be expedient that noble people have noble manners soon in their infancy continually, as well as, they may be accustomed, little by little, to speak pure and elegant Latin. Similarly, the nurses and other women around him, if it is possible to do the same or at least that they do not speak English but that which is clean, polite,pronounced perfect and articulately,omitting no letter or syllable, as foolish women often do a silliness, whereby diverse noblemen and gentleness children ( as I do at this time), who have attained corrupt and foul pronunciation.