These fine English clerks will say they speak in their mother tongue,…

Quote byThomas Wilson · 1524–1581

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Art of Rhetorique (1560), Bk. 3.

English (original)

These fine English clerks will say they speak in their mother tongue, if a man should charge them for counterfeiting the king's English.

— Thomas Wilson

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