I understand your point. Probably I’m overestimating. Which quotes were hard? I’m guessing that e.g. “the commandement, or example of our superiours” and “grant [sin] but her little, and this little will quickly come to a great deale” are relatively clear.
Reading C17 English isn’t hard to learn: it’s modern English (not Middle or Old) but just in an antiquated style and sometimes words have different shades of meaning. By “not hard” I mean you can teach yourself, simply by reading stuff and picking it up as you go along—I did Shakespeare at school, then Hobbes’ Leviathan and Locke’s Treatises on Liberty. (I wouldn’t start with Puritan self-help literature!) It’s worthwhile, because you get access to a bunch of people who thought in ways very different to your own time. That helps you surmount historical parochialism (https://wyclif.substack.com/p/parochialism-in-time-and-space).
I understand your point. Probably I’m overestimating. Which quotes were hard? I’m guessing that e.g. “the commandement, or example of our superiours” and “grant [sin] but her little, and this little will quickly come to a great deale” are relatively clear.
Reading C17 English isn’t hard to learn: it’s modern English (not Middle or Old) but just in an antiquated style and sometimes words have different shades of meaning. By “not hard” I mean you can teach yourself, simply by reading stuff and picking it up as you go along—I did Shakespeare at school, then Hobbes’ Leviathan and Locke’s Treatises on Liberty. (I wouldn’t start with Puritan self-help literature!) It’s worthwhile, because you get access to a bunch of people who thought in ways very different to your own time. That helps you surmount historical parochialism (https://wyclif.substack.com/p/parochialism-in-time-and-space).