Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	baron_n	earl_n	viscount_n	17,931	5	11.9058	5	false

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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