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In the Epistle Dedicatory to the second edition of his Dictionary, we find him engaged morsu et unguibus with a swarm of literary hornets, against whom he inveighs as "sea-dogs, land-critics, monsters of men, if not beasts rather than men, whose teeth are cannibals', their tongues adders' forks, their lips asps' poison, their eyes basilisks', their breath the breath of a grave, their words like swords of Turks, which strive which shall dive deepest into the Christian lying before them."
It was probably to confront and outface "Aristophanes and his comedians," and to "abrogate the scurrility" of the "sea-dogs" and "land-critics," that our Resolute lexicographer prefixed to the Enlarged Edition of his Dictionary and to his translation of Montaigne, his portrait or effigies, engraved by Hole.
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