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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19044	The English dictionarie: or, An interpreter of hard English vvords Enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clarkes, merchants, as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writing. Being a collection of the choisest words contained in the Table alphabeticall and English expositor, and of some thousands of words neuer published by any heretofore. By H.C. Gent.	Cockeram, Henry, fl. 1650.; Cawdry, Robert. Table alphabeticall. aut; J. B. (John Bullokar). English expositor. aut	1623 (1623)	STC 5461.2; ESTC S118706	133,393	332

THE ENGLISH DICTIONARIE OR AN INTERPRETER of hard English Words Enabling as well Ladies and Gentlewomen young Schollers Clarkes Merchants as also Strangers of any Nation to the vnderstanding of the more difficult Authors already printed in our Language and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue both in reading speaking and writing Being a Collection of the choisest words contained in the Table Alphabeticall and English Expositor and of some thousands of words neuer published by any heretofore By H. C. Gent. LONDON Printed for Edmund Weauer and are to be sold at his shop at the great North gate of Pauls Church 1623. TO THE RIGHT HOnourable Sir Richard Boyle Knight Lord Boyle Baron of Youghall Viscount Dungaruan Earle of Cork and one of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Councell of the Kingdome of Ireland c. PArt of euery desertfull birth Right Honourable in any man his Country may challenge his Soueraigne a part his Parents a part his friends another As I cannot be vseful in euery respect to each of those so I will striue to expresse at least a will if not a perfection in abilitie to all Where a generall voice warrants an approbation there euery seruice is a duty The truth of it both concernes and inuites me out of the fame and applause of your Noblenesse to make a particular dedication of some serious houres to your suruey whom the world speakes both noble and learned wherein as I haue done my best to accommodate discourse with the choisest language so I desire that my ambition of being knowne vnto your Lordship may not be imputed either vnto an errour of impudence or an impudence in erring Please you to know thus much of me that I am partly imboldned hereunto by the assurance of your loue and fauours to that noble Gentleman Sir William Hull to whom as I am tied in double bonds of bloud and friendship so I am so much obliged vnto him that I cannot deuise a better rent than to doe you seruice But chiefely the report of your owne honourable merit and iust commendations encourage mee to this duty though otherwise vnknowne not questioning but you will be pleased to take notice of one who loues and honours vertue in all Personages for vertues sake Vouchsafe Right Honourable this poore testimonie of my obseruancie intended only to serue you not to instruct you and you shall not onely largely requite my endeuours but may also expect a more steady and particular duty from Your Honours most ready seruant Henry Cockeram A Premonition from the Author to the Reader I Am not ignorant of the praise-worthy labours which some Schollers of deserued memorie haue heretofore bestowed on the like subiect that I haue here aduentured on howsoeuer it might therefore seeme a needlesse taske of mine to intrude vpon a plot of study the foundation of whose building hath beene formerly leuel'd and laid yet the Iustice of defence herein is so cleere that my endeuours may bee truly termed rather a necessity of doing than an arrogancie in doing For without appropriating to my owne comfort any interest of glory the vnderstanding Readers will not the ignorant cannot and the malicious dare not but acknowledge that what any before me in this kinde haue begun I haue not onely fully finished but throughly perfected To write an Apologie of iustification would argue rather a distrust of my Worke than a confidence of merit Be pleased therefore honest and therin learned Reader to suruey a short Premonition for the order of the ensuing Vocabularie First the method is plaine and easie being alphabeticall by which the capacity of the meanest may soone be inlightened The first Booke hath the choisest words themselues now in vse wherewith our language is inriched and become so copious to which words the common sense is annexed The second Booke containes the vulgar words which whensoeuer any desirous of a more curious explanation by a more refined and elegant speech shall looke into he shall there receiue the exact and ample word to expresse the same Wherein by the way let me pray thee to obserue that I haue also inserted as occasion serued euen the mocke-words which are ridiculously vsed in our language that those who desire a generality of knowledge may not bee ignorant of the sense euen of the fustian termes vsed by too many who study rather to bee heard speake than to vnderstand themselues The last Booke is a recitall of seuerall persons Gods and Goddesses Giants and Deuils Monsters and Serpents Birds and Beasts Riuers Fishes Herbs Stones Trees and the like to the intent that the diligent learner may not pretend the defect of any helpe which may informe his discourse or practice I might insist vpon the generall vse of this worke especially for Ladies and Gentlewomen Clarkes Merchants young Schollers Strangers Trauellers and all such as desire to know the plenty of the English but I am confident that experience will be the truest Herauld to publish to the world on my behalfe how as my debt to my countrie is to bee challenged so my Country shall not altogether boast of any immunity from being indebted to my S●udies Thus what I haue done is Reader for thy benefit accept it and make vse of it so shall I finde reward in my labours and rest thy friend H. C. To his very good friend Master Henry Cockeram on his Vocabulary He whose selfe loue or too ambitious spirit Enuies or carpes at this thy Muses action Nere let him liue or of a Muse once merit Regard or fame but die in his detraction Irreuocably plagu'd with Zoilan spight Ere he once taste of Hellicons delight Could I oh could I quintessence my skill Or with Elixir truly alcumize Knowledge with learning should instruct my quill Effectually to praise thy Muses guise Re-felling all the criticall disasters Among some captious yet wise seeming masters Made by her curious eye their owne distasters Nicholas Smith Eques Auratus Encomiastes Posthumus To my industrious friend the Author of this English Dictionarie Mr. HENRY COCKRAM of EXETER BOrne in the West liue there so far frō Court Frō Oxford Cambridge London yet report Now in these daies of Eloquence such change Of words vnknown vntaught t is new strange Let Gallants therefore skip no more from hence To Italie France Spaine and with expence Waste time and faire estates to learne new fashions Of complementall phrases smooth temptations To glorious beggary Here let them hand This Booke here studie reade and vnderstand Then shall they finde varietie at Home As curious as at Paris or at Rome For my part I confesse hadst not thou writ I had not beene acquainted with more wit Than our old English taught but now I can Be proud to know I haue a Countryman Hath strugled for a fame and what is more Gain'd it by paths of Art vntrod before The benefit is generall the crowne Of praise particular and that 's thine owne

Poet who lying in his Cradle a Nightingale came and pitcht on his mouth and sung hee inuented singing in dances Tyriseas a Poet who by killing two Adders engendring became a woman and in seuen yeere after by killing two Serpents became a man againe he told Iupiter and Iuno being by them asked that the women had more pleasure in Venus act then the men Zoylus a rayling Poet that wrote maliciously against Homer of him all enuious carpers all called Zoyli Men that were Soothsayers AMphilocus a notable Soothsayer Euripilus the best Soothsayer in all Greece Thraseus a Soothsayer who hauing told Busiris that the meanes to take away the drowth of Egipt was to sacrifice a stranger to Jupiter himselfe being a stranger was immediatly sacrificed Accius with a Rasor cut a whetstone in sunder Zachalias a Sorcerer that wrote of the vertue of pretious stones Men that were Theeues AVctilicus a notable Theefe that when he pleased could turne himselfe into diuers shapes Caucus a Shepheard but a notorious theefe and of great strength and policie he stole many Oxen from Hercules and drue them backwards into his Caue which in fine Hercules perceiuing kild him with his Clubbe Cercyon a famosed theefe of Thessaly Prometheus was an Image maker who stole fire from heauen to quicken them and was therefore bound to Caucasus where an Eagle still gnawes his heart Men that were Wrastlers EGlis a famous Wrastler hauing wrong in his play spake presently albe he in all his life was dombe ere that time Ictus a noted Wrastler who to be strong abstained from women Ligamus a puissant Wrastler of Syria who being dead had no marrow in 's bones Cletomachus a Wrastler who being a company-keeper yet had he heard one filthy word would presenly depart Democrates a cunning Wrastler Tytornus a Heardsman that was a cunning Wrastler he threw Mylo Men of sundrie qualities HErostratus to get perpetuall fame with wilde-fire burnt that famous Temple at Ephesus of Diana Icarus with Dedalus his Father flying out of Crete was drowned in the Sea Phaeton hauing leaue of his Father for one day to rule the Horses of the Sunne for want of skill ouerturned the Chariot and burnt the world Abdolomenes a poore Gardener refused a great Citie being giuen by great Alexander Androclides one that was of a most base condition Antemon was an absolute Coward for neuer would he goe out of dore but had a brazen Target carried ouer his head Catiline a notable Roman for Conspiracie Charon the Ferry man of Hell Athenagoras felt no paine albe he were stung with a Scorpion Bellerophon one that brought Letters to cut his owne throat Aristarchus one that wrote 200. bookes Dapheta was hanged for writing verses against Kings Bebeus a notable Tale-teller Phagores kept all things in memory that euer hee heard or saw Palinurus a skilfull ship-master of Eneas Alcmeon for killing his Mother was vexed with Furies Orestis for slaying his Mother Aegisthus and Pirrbus was with Furies vexed to death Olympious an Arian Bishop strucken dead with lightening for blaspheming the Deity of Christ Ouid Nygedeus died for loue Samocrateous died for loue Orion hath three Fathers Iupiter Neptune and Mercury which three pissing together out of their vrine came Orion hee was slaine of a Scorpeon for his insolencie towards Diana Hadrian a Pope being an English man made the Emperour Fredericke to hold his stirrup who holding the wrong stirrup the Pope gaue him a box on the eare hee also made Henry the second Lord of the kingdome of Ireland Irus a very poore man of great bones and limbs whom Vlisses finding among his wiues wooers slue him with his fist Ladas a swift footman who running on the sands left no signe or print of his foot behinde him hee was Footman to great Alexander Hippomanes in running ouercame Atalanta Crobilus a notorious Pander Cycuta was a remarkable Vsurer Charon the Ferriman of Hell Marcus Crassus a priuate Roman worth eight hundred fiftie two thousand pounds yet neither esteemed himselfe rich nor any other except he could yeerely maintaine one thousand footmen and fiue hundred Horsemen Cato Vticensis because he would not see the calamity the Common-wealth was falne into killed himselfe Cleombrotus hauing read a Treatise of the immortalitie of the soule immediatly slue himselfe Phyloxenus a Parrasire who wisht that his necke were as long as a Cranes that he might feele the more pleasure in sweet meates and drinkes Iosephus Scalleger skild in 30. Languages Didymaon a famous Harnis maker Trebatius a Law-maker and a Lawyer Zaleucus a Law maker who after he had ordained that Adulterers should lose both their eyes put the law first in practise vpon his owne Sonne who was conuicted of adultery and because his Sonne should not lose all his sight hee put out one of his Sonnes eyes and one of his owne Lynceus could see Ships on the sea one hundred and thirty miles from him and number them Acteon a Hunter whom Diana turned into a Hart and was deuoured of his owne Dogges Scyleucus dying called to him his sonnes and tooke a sheffe of Arrows binding them together when offering to breake he could not but taking them out one by one he easily brake them intimating to his sonnes that as long as they had vnity amongst themselues they might not be ouercome but otherwise easily Scython one that when it pleased him could bee either man or woman Spira an Italian who being ready to be hanged was wild to say the Lords Prayer who answered I cannot finde in my heart to call him Father Spartica a famous Sword-player who with a few flaues made warres on the Romans Thesilaus being purged of his Melancholy cryed out that he was robd of all his wealth Tuditana had a head as bigge as a bittle Valerius loued his Master so well that he suffered himselfe to bee slaine in his Masters owne bed for him Palaephatus a Writer of incredible things Mermaides or Syrens PArthenope Lygia Leucasia so were they called in the vpper part they were like maides and in the lower part fishes by their sweet singing they would allure Sailers to them and with their melodious harmonie lull them asleepe then destroy them Monsters ALeida a Monster slaine by Pallas Chymaera a Monster headed and breasted like a Lyon having a belly goat-like and a taile like a Dragon this Monster with the monster Solimes were slaine by Bellerophon Gorgon an hellish Monster with one eye hauing iron talents and masssic wings Medusa a Monster whose golden ha●res Minerua turned into adders and caused them that beheld her to be turned into stones Mynotaure a Monster hauing the one halfe of a Man and the other halfe a Bull hee was fed with mans flesh and afterwards slaine by Theseus Onocentaure a Monster being halfe a Man and halfe an Asse Centaures Monsters held to be halfe men and halfe Horses Quauiuer a monster like a sea Dragon Satyr a Monster hauing a body like a man but all hairy with