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 28 came out, one as late as 1684. And in 1623 appeared the work which first assumed the title of 'The English Dictionarie,' by H. C., Gent. H. C., we learn from the dedication, was Henry Cockeram, to whom John Ford the dramatist addressed the following congratulatory lines:—

And a deeply interesting little book is this diminutive ancestor of the modern English Dictionary, to describe which adequately would take far more time than the limits of this lecture afford. It is divided into three parts: Part I contains the hard words with their