the common profet of others, and the publike propagation
of the Latine tongue.'

But when Baret at length resolved to comply with this suggestion,
there were many difficulties to be overcome, the expense of the work
being not the least:--

'And surelie, had not the right honourable Sir Thomas
Smith knight, principall Secretarie to the Queenes
Maiestie, that noble Theseus of learning, and comfortable
Patrone to all Students, and the right Worshipfull M.
Nowell, Deane of Pawles, manie waies encouraged me in
this wearie worke (the charges were so great, and the
losse of my time so much grieued me) I had neuer bene
able alone to haue wrestled against so manie troubles,
but long ere this had cleane broken off our worke begun,
and cast it by for euer.'

Between the dates of the _Abecedarium_ and the _Alvearie_, Peter
Levins, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, published, in 1570, the
first essay at an English Riming Dictionary, the _Manipulus
Vocabulorum_, or Handful of Vocables, an original copy of which is in
the Bodleian Library; it was reprinted for the Early English Text
Society in 1867 by Mr. H.B. Wheatley. The English words are arranged
in order of their terminations, and each is furnished with a Latin
equivalent.

Of all the works which we have yet considered, Latin was an essential
element: whether the object was, as in the glossaries and vocabularies
before the fifteenth century, to explain the Latin words themselves,