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

But to return to my purpose, it shall be expedient that a noble man should continually have with him in his infancy only such as may accustom him to speak little by little pure and elegant Latin. Similarly, the nurses and other women about him if it is possible to do the fame: or at the left way that they speak not English but that which is clean, polite, perfectly and accurately pronounced omitting no letter or syllable as foolish women do sometimes due to a wantonness whereby diverse noble men and gentlemen’s children (as I do at this day known) have attained corrupt and false pronunciation.