Manipulus Vocabulorum A Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Manipulus Vocabulorum: A Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language

The other work of our author appears to have been very popular in its day. It was first published in the year 1587, and was reprinted in 1596, 1608, 1632, 1644, 1654, and 1664, and its title is A Right Profitable Books for all Disease, called the Pathway to Health. The preface is written in the same style as that to the Manipulate. The author defends himself from the blame attached to writing in the vulgar tongue, and at the same time sets up a plea for English. He charges those who think books should be written in hard or unknown lan guages, and thus hide the knowledge of health from the people, as guilty of malice exceeding damnable and devillish.

It would be a mistake to confuse such men as Levins, Huloet, Baret, and Cotgrave, with the harmless drudges, who, in later times, followed the trade of Dictionary making. Nothing is more remarkable in the older dictionaries than the originality displayed in them. Their authors wrote out of the fulness of their knowledge, and the consequence is that their works teem with instances of their geniality and good sense. Unfortu nately we know nothing of these men; their works remain as their only monuments, but every year as they become more known, more honour is given to the compilers for their labours.

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