_Of the Booke binder._ Shew me an Italian, and English bookes and of the best print. I have none bound at this present. Bind me this with silke and claspes.... Reach me royall paper to write. Neede you any ynke and bombash? No, but wast paper, & of that which wee call drinking paper.... _Of the Shoemaker._ I would you shoulde make mee a paire of bootes, a ierkin, and a paire of shoes, pantofles, mules, and buskins. We will make thē sir, & of good leather. See this faire shooing. Put on those pompes...." After all, possibly, such publications as that before me are chiefly valuable for a purpose for which they were not designed--for the bounteous light which they shed on our old English customs and notions; and I do not think that they have been hitherto fully brought into employment. It is obviously impossible for me, however, in the present case to remedy this shortcoming, more particularly as the quotations suffer by curtailment or paraphrase. The _Arnalte and Lucenda_ takes up the major part of the volume, and must be said to be freer from grammatical inaccuracies than that division of the book devoted to grammar. Nor could a man live in London without catching some of the colloquialisms current among its residents. In his _Italian Phrases_ we meet on the English side of the page with: "Hee looketh rather like a cutter or fencer then," and "He goeth accompanied with Roisters and cutters." The French Dictionary of Desainliens was entirely superseded by that of Randle Cotgrave in 1611. The latter spared no pains to make his book a really valuable performance; he invited help from others, and modelled his labours on a fairly intelligible plan, and it remains to this day in the enlarged edition by Howell a standard and indispensable work of reference. It was the only one available for the school-boy and student for a considerable length of time.