John Lane, A Brief Rule or Prosody (1599)
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Date
15990
Lexicographer
Lexicon title
A Briefe rule or prosodie, for the vnderstanding of the quantitie of some peculiar wordes in this booke; vntill I haue set forth a Verball, or littel Dictionarie, with a Prosodia requisite for Poetry
Book title
The First Booke of the Preservation of King Henry VII
Publication place
London
Printer
Richard Bradock
Transcription source
EEBO
Text type
printed book
Genre
Other
Subject area
prosody
Summary
A set of brief notes on quantitative analysis of English words in poetry that refers to the author's intention to produce "a Verball, or littel Dictionarie, with a Prosodia requisite for Poetry" (c1v-2v)
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: De, in dissyllabels and trisyllabels is alwaies short. In some quadrissyllabels it is long: as; demerited, depopulate, demonicall, and such like: And againe in other|some it is either long or short: as; denunciate, determinate, denominate. And in words of fiue syllabels it is short: as; dedication, deprehension: And in words of six syllabels it is long: as; determination, delapidation; and such like.
sample: De, in dissyllabels and trisyllabels is alwaies short. In some quadrissyllabels it is long: as; demerited, depopulate, demonicall, and such like: And againe in other|some it is either long or short: as; denunciate, determinate, denominate. And in words of fiue syllabels it is short: as; dedication, deprehension: And in words of six syllabels it is long: as; determination, delapidation; and such like.
STC
13076
Modern editions
John Considine, "John Lane's Verball: A lost Elizabethan dictionary project." In Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie. Ed. Olga Timofeeva and Tanja äily. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011. 41-54.
ESTC
S116380
