Kent
“in the Commentaries Cæsar writ, Is term'd the civill'st place
of all this isle,”
2 HENRY VI., iv. 7. 56.
“So, in Cæsar's Comment. B. v. [14]: ‘Ex his omnibus [longe] sunt humanissimi qui
Cantium incolunt.’ The passage is thus
translated by Arthur Golding, 1590 [1565]: ‘Of all the inhabitants of this isle,
the civilest are the Kentishfolke’”
(STEEVENS)
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A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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