Words[D]; for which the _Saxon_ Language is very remarkable, as has
been before observed, and of which there are numerous Examples, in the
following Treatise of _Saxon Grammar_, and infinitely more might have
been added.

[Footnote D: Of this the _Greeks_ give as a fair Example, when
they express the Original and Author of all Things, their +Patêr
andrônte theônte+, by their Monosyllable +Zeus+. As the _Hebrews_
do by ++yah++, the _Goths_ the Ancestors of our _Saxon_ Progenitors
by the Word ++GOÞ++, the _Saxons_, old _Germans_, _Teutons_,
_Francick_, and _English_, in the _Monosyllable_ *Goð*, the
_Germans_ #Gott#, and the _French_ _Dieu_.]

The second Enquiry is, whether or no the Copiousness and Variety
of _Monosyllables_ may be always justly reputed a fault, and may not
as justly be thought, to be very useful and ornamental? Were this a
fault, it might as justly be charged upon the learned Languages,
the _Latin_ and _Greek_: For the _Latin_ you have in _Lilly_'s Rules
concerning Nouns, several Verses, made up for the most part of
_Monosyllables_, I mention him not as a Classick, but because the
Words are Classical and _Monosyllables_; and in the _Greek_ there
are several as it were, idle _Monosyllables_, that have little
Significancy, except to make the Numbers in Verse compleat, or to
give a Fulness to their Periods, as the Verses of _Homer_ and other
_Greek Poets_ plainly evidence: An Instance or two may suffice;

+Ex hou dê ta prôta diastêtên erisante.+

Here are four _Monosyllables_ in this Verse,