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It is in every way exceedingly valuable, and superior to that of Nicot, because instead of keeping to the plane of classic and Latin French, it showed an acquaintance with and mastery of the popular tongue as well as of the written and learned language. As a foreigner, Cotgrave is a little behind in his information. He is not aware of all the changes and novelties of the passing fashion.
Randle Cotgrave, the compiler of one of the most valuable dictionaries of early English words, lost his eyesight through laboriously studying ancient MSS. in his pursuit of knowledge. The sixteen volumes of MS. preserved in the Lambeth Library of English literature killed their author, Henry Wharton, before he reached his thirtieth year.
"No, Timothy, no man can be in the right road who deceives; I have been all wrong; and I am afraid I am going from worse to worse: but I cannot moralise, I must go to sleep, and forget everything if I can." The next morning, about eleven o'clock, a Mr Cotgrave called upon me on the part of Harcourt. I referred him to Captain Atkinson, and he bowed and quitted the room.
Not marked in MS. "Mr. Rob." took the part. In the right-hand margin we find the actor's name, "Mr. Bir.," i.e. "The quantity of ten of any commodity; as a dicker of hides was ten hides, a dicker of iron ten bars. See 'Fragment. Antiq., p. 192. Probably from decas, Lat." Nares. "Dewse-ace. Deux et az." Cotgrave. Among the Romans the highest cast was called Venus and the lowest canis.
It is dangerous to tamper with so great a work, and he who does so runs a great risk of burning his fingers. England has been less daring, and her modesty and discretion have brought her success. But, before speaking of Urquhart's translation, it is but right to mention the English-French Dictionary of Randle Cotgrave, the first edition of which dates from 1611.
Leland Strutt Cotgrave Henry Wharton Robert Heron Collins William Cole Homeric victims Joshua Barnes An example of unrequited toil Borgarutius Pays. We have still a list far too long of literary martyrs whose works have proved fatal to them, and yet whose names have not appeared in the foregoing chapters.
Cotgrave , Ruade seiche, a drie bob, jeast or nip. Bailey has 'Dry Bob. a Taunt or Scoff'. p. 100 By Yea and Nay. 'Yea and Nay' was often derisively applied to the Puritans, and hence to their lineal descendants the Whigs, in allusion to the Scriptural injunction, S. Matthew v, 33-7, which they feigned exactly to follow. Fletcher's Monsieur Thomas, Act ii, III, where Thomas says:
The next morning, about eleven o'clock, a Mr Cotgrave called upon me on the part of Harcourt. I referred him to Captain Atkinson, and he bowed and quitted the room. Captain Atkinson soon called: he had remained at home expecting the message, and had made every arrangement with the second. He stayed with me the whole day. The major's pistols were examined and approved of.
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