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Authority Cited: Herbert
Author name and dates: George Herbert (1593-1633)

BKG Bio-tweet: Politician then cleric; religious poems praised for imagery, some continue as hymns; pastoral guidance still used

Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 55 Herbert cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 66 cites in vol. 2.  Two quotations were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. as indicated in bold italic in the list below.  All citations are to the authors name, without a work indicated, except prevent.  The edition used by SJ is unknown, but based on the "cane" spelling, SJ may have used an early edition.  The first edition was 1633.  Page numbers below for The Temple are for the 1703 edition.]
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The Temple, Sacred poems and private ejaculations. By Mr. George Herbert. 1633, Cambridge: Printed by Thom. Buck, and Roger Daniel, printers to the Universitie.  OR  The temple. Sacred poems, and private ejaculations. By Mr. George Herbert, Late Orator of the University of Cambridge. Together with his life. The twelfth edition corrected, with the addition of an alphabetical table. 1703, London: printed by J. Barber, for Jeffery Wale, at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-Yard;

• The Church-Porch; abusiveness (p.9); alight (p.12); ​cane (can in 1703 and texts, p.2, canne in 1633 1st edition, p.2); ​canker (p.13); ell (p.15); fencer (p.11); fret (p.9, same quote as fencer); giggler (gigler in 1703 text, p.9); humbleness (p.12); lethargickness (p. 12, same quote as humbleness); outlaw (p. 2); pare (p.3); sad (p.9, same quote as giggler); wine (same quote as cane; quote in Dict. spelled canne, which may indicate that SJ used an early edition of The Temple, p,2);
• The Church: anneal (p.59); balcony (p.76); bind (p.113); clutch (p.119); disannul (p.131); dog (p.37); dull (p.115); foot (p.119, same quote as clutch); gad (p.60); grind (p.115); hamper (p.101); jeer (p.103); lace (p.124); markman/marksman (p.64); nightfire (p.161); prevent (p.111, cited as Herbert's Temple of Sacred Poems); procure (p.64); puff (p.103); quail (p.150); quest (p.60, same quote as gad); restlessneess (p.154); tack (p.96); unpin (p.63); untrained (p.60, same quote as gad and quest); workyday (p.67); 
  
• ​The Church Militant: tiptoe (p.190); 
  

​Hygiasticon: Or, The right course of preserving life and health unto extream old age together with soundnesse and integritie of the senses, judgement, and memorie. Written in Latine by Leonardus Lessius, and now done into English.  1634, Printed by Roger Daniel, Printer to the Universitie of Cambridge. [ BKG Note: all of the Herbert Dict. quotes were examined, although not all were recorded and sourced.  Only four quotes were identified as prose and to be in this title as indicated in the list below.]

• A Treatise of Temperance and Sobriety, written by Lud. Cornarus and translated into English by George Herbert;  dumpish (p.43); joint (p.15); set (p.16); squat (p.14); 
  

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• Herbert (no work cited); [BKG Note: the Abstracted edition erroneously cites Herbert as an authority for the headword abusively.  In the folio edition of the Dict., Herbert is an authority for the headword that follows: abusiveness (abusiveness does not appear in the Abstracted edition.)]

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Cornaro [Alvise or Luigi] (1464–1566)
BKG Biotweet: Padua shoemaker's son; claimed nobility; land water control; patron of arts; Discorsi: temperance, diet for long active life

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