The Child And His book : Some Account of the History And Progress of Children's Literature in England

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Many have made dictionaries, he says, in a most quaint and interesting preface, but as for his, men may see what it is, Manipulum, a mere handful.
But being cheap, the poorer sort of students may be able to buy it, and being arranged in alphabetical order of the the last syllables, the delectableness of metre, which delights and comforts the wits, might stir up negligent and unwilling youth to a willingness to learn. Master Howlet's great dictionary was so costly, that many young and humble stu
...dents could not have the use of it. So that it was as if no man might work in the mint but he who had a golden hammer, or as if there were but one hammer which others must wait to borrow. Some fear of the critics possessed our author. The world, he says, is now fine and disdainful. He may be blamed for wasting labour on so trivial a matter, or counted rude and ignorant if his work is not quite up to their standard.
The dictionary begins — "Alleluia, laudate dominum.
1 Reprinted by Camden Soc, ed.


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