text: '" This story after exciting the smiles of the learned for about two thousand years fell in an evil hour for the peace of mind of modern philologers into the hands of John Goropius Becan a man of letters at Antwerp who recollecting that _bec_ has a like signification in Dutch (_bec_ in that language meaning bread and _becker_ as in our own a baker ) immediately jumped to the conclusion that Dutch must have been the language of the Phrygians and that the Dutch were consequently the most ancient of mankind