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“ The former, remarkable as the first English book of its kind, contains not only purely lexicographical matter, but little paragraphs on geographical, mythological, and historical proper names, and descriptions of natural objects, diseases, and the like. As a writer Sir Thomas was eminently didactic; his works have all a direct practical purpose, and he is not slow to assert the benefit that must accrue to the reader’s character from their perusal. ”

“ The knowledge which maketh a wise man, 1533; Pasquine the playne, 1535; lsocrates’s Doctrinal of Princes, 1534; Pico de Mirandula’s Rules of a Christian Life, 1534; The Castell of Health, compiled out of the chief authours of Physick, 1534; Dictionarium, 1538 (a copy in the Brit. Museum belonged to Cromwell, and has an autograph Latin letter from Elyot on the blank leaf at the beginning) ”