The sister's vows, &c.
Shakspeare had never read the poems of Gregory Nazianzen; he was ignorant of the Greek language; but his mother tongue, the language of Nature, is the same in Cappadocia and in Britain.] [Footnote 30: This unfavorable portrait of Sasimae is drawn by Gregory Nazianzen, (tom.ii.de Vita sua, p.

7, 8.) Its precise situation, forty-nine miles from Archelais, and thirty-two from Tyana, is fixed in the Itinerary of Antoninus, (p.

144, edit.

Wesseling.)] [Footnote 31: The name of Nazianzus has been immortalized by Gregory; but his native town, under the Greek or Roman title of Diocaesarea, (Tillemont, Mem.Eccles.tom.ix.p.

692,) is mentioned by Pliny, (vi.