Chapter I: Front Matter

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| Throughout the Dictionary two different forms of the |
| letters E and O are used, to represent the different |
| sounds they can have in Italian. The close E is displayed |
| in its normal form (E — e), the open E with a special |
| character the author had made for this very purpose: it |
| has here been rendered with Ẻ — ẻ. The close O has an oval |
| shape, and has been represented in this text version with |
| [O] [o], while the open O has its normal appearance. |
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QVEEN ANNA'S
NEW WORLD
OF WORDS,

OR

DICTIONARIE

of the _Italian_ and _English_
tongues,

Collected, and newly much augmented by
IOHN FLORIO,

Reader of the Italian vnto the Soueraigne
_Maiestie of_ ANNA,

Crowned Queene of _England_, _Scotland_, _France_
and _Ireland_, &c.

_And one of the Gentlemen of hir Royall Priuie_
Chamber.

Whereunto are added certaine necessarie
_rules and short obseruations for the_
Italian tongue.

LONDON,
Printed by _Melch. Bradwood_, for
_Edw. Blount_ and _William Barret_.
ANNO 1611.

ALL'
ECCELSA ET GLORIOSISSIMA
Maestà di ANNA, Serenissima REGINA
_d'Inghilterra, di Scótia, di Fráncia,
& d'Irlánda_:

GIOVANNI FLORIO, súo hum.^mo seruitóre bráma, &
augúra il cólmo & godimento d'ógni vera &
_compíta felicità_.

In sù l'altáre della túa Eccélsa & Sere.^ma MAESTA, (al quále ógni nóstro ginócchio douerebbe inchinársi) che le túe innáte & Reáli virtù (Gloriosíssima REGINA) s'hánno erétto nél sácro Témpio d'Honóre (che ógni cuóre conuerebbe adoráre sénza idolatría) Io con ógni humiltà & riuerenza dedico & consácro quésto húmile vóto, & cón le ginócchia délla ménte inchíne ALLA TVA GRANDEZZA DALL'ECCELSO, báscio le Realíssime mani, volendo víuere & moríre

_Di túa Gloriosíssima & Sublime Maestà
hum.^mo ossequen.^mo & inuiolabile
súddito & seruitóre_

GIOVANNI FLORIO.

_TO THE IMPERIALL MAIESTIE_
of the Highest-borne Princes, ANNA of
_Denmarke_, by God's permission, Crowned
QVEENE of _England_, _Scotland_,
_France_ & _Ireland_, &c.

Hir humblest seruant I. F. wisheth all the true felicities, that this
_world may affoord, and the fullest fruition of the blessednesse_
that heauen can yeeld.

_This braine-babe (ô pardon me that title most absolute supreme _Minerua_) brought with it into the world, now thirteen yeers since, a world of words: Since, following the fathers steps in all obseruant seruice of your most sacred Maiestie, yet with a trauellers minde, as erst _Colombus_ at command of glorius _Isabella_, it hath (at home) discouered neere halfe a new world: and therefore as of olde some called _Scotia_ of _Scota_, and others lately _Virginia_, of Queenes your Maiesties predecessors: so pardon again (ô most Gracious and Glorious) if it dare be entitled QVEEN ANNA'S _New world of words_, as vnder your protection and patronage sent and set foorth. It shall be my guard against the worst, if not grace with the best, if men may see I beare _Minerua_ in my front, or as the Hart on my necke, I am _Diana's_, so with heart I may say, This is QVEEN ANNA'S, as the Author is, and shall euer be_

Your Soueraigne Majesties inuiolably-
deuoted subiect and most obliged
seruant

IOHN FLORIO.

TO ALL READERS.

_To be a Reader, requires vnderstanding; to be a Critike, iudgement. A Dictionarie giues armes to that, and takes no harme of this, if it mistake not. I wish thee both, but feare neither, for I still rest_

Resolute IOHN FLORIO.

ALLA REAL MAESTA DI
_ANNA Seren.^ma Regína délla
Grán Britágna_.

REGINA GRANDE, e fíglia di grán Régi,
E suóra di Rè grándi, e al GRAN RE spósa,
E MADRE sópra tútte Gloriósa
DI RE futúri in ógni etáde egrégi.
Ecco a tánte Coróne, a tánti prégi,
Di quánti mái se n' gío Dónna pompósa
Giúngi beltáde Augústa, e luminósa
Di túo próprio valór TE ségni e frégi
TE il móndo inchína; TE l'Itália cóle,
Ch'il sermón nóstro di túa grátia honóri,
E sì dólce lo párli, e dólce scríui.
ANNA REGINA, víui al móndo, víui
All'Itália deuóta, e nuóui albóri
Dall'occáso a nói spléndi vn nuóuo sóle.

_Humilíssimo seruitóre_
ALBERICO GENTILI.

To my dearely-esteemed friend and fellow M. _John Florio_, Reader of the Italian tongue vnto the most Excellent Maiestie of our sacred Mistris.

_I am, all that I am, _Florio_, thy debter:_
_Many men owe thee more. yet thou of all_
_Oblig'd to thee in deepe affections fetter,_
_Doest for this testimoniall tribute call_
_But to three more; who haue discharg'd it better:_
_I say but this (but this is too-too small)_
_Great is thy Masters-prize, thy MISTRIS greater,_
_At whose foot praises, phrases, poem's fall._
_Th' analogie is short. SHE is of worth_
_A wondrous Anacephalaiosis;_
_A None-pareil, sans parallel: set forth_
_To shew perfections Abstract. So is this._
_Italian honor's hir, Italian SHE._
_That language thou adorn'st, that language thee._

Il Cándido.

_L'istésso all'istésso._

Come i grán fátti di quéi gránd'Herói
Achille, Vlísse, e 'l più famós' Ænea,
Il gránd'Homero, e 'l grán Máro ascriuéa
Alle lór Protettríci e Númi suói:
Cosi ciòche tù sái, che fái, che puói,
Di sénno o seruitù all'Archi Dea
Che ti détta, díta, dóta, nútre e bea
Ascríui Flório; chè bén scríui pói.
Incomíncin da lei gl'Annái lór lódi,
In lei finíscano: da lei Grandézza
Scend'a' Británni, póich'élla è Británna.
Di quésta sómma ti contenti e gódi:
Sómma di Sénno, Amór, Virtù e chiarézza,
E d'Inghilterra Imperatríce ANNA.

_Il Cándido._

To my deare friend and brother _M. Iohn Florio_, one of the Gentlemen of hir Maiesties Royall Priuy-chamber.

_I stand not to giue praise before the face_
_Of this great worke, that doth it selfe commend:_
_But to congratulate the good and grace_
_That England com's thereby to apprehend:_
_And in hir name to thanke your industry_
_Laborius _Flório_, who haue so much wrought_
_To honour hir in bringing Italy_
_To speake hir language, and to giue hir note_
_Of all the treasure that rich tongue containes:_
_Wherein I cannot but admire your paines_
_In gathering vp this vniuersall store,_
_And furniture of words for euery arte,_
_And skill of man: So that there seem's no more_
_Beyond this search, that knowledge can impart._
_Which being a worke that would take vp the powers_
_Of more then one whole man, I wonder how_
_You could substract so many serious howres_
_From that great summe of seruice that you owe._
_But that it seemes the beaming Gracefulnesse_
_That lightens from the most refulgent QVEENE_
_Our sacred Mistris, work's that ablenesse_
_As mak's you more, then els you could haue beene._
_Wherein the power of Princes well is seene_
_That can infuse such force, and make age greene._
_And it were well, if in this season, when_
_They leaue erecting Churches, Colledges,_
_And pious monuments, they would build men_
_Who of their glory may be witnesses,_
_And what they doe be theirs: As Mazons raise_
_Work's not for them, but for their masters praise._
_For, would they but be ples'd to know, how small_
_A portion of that ouer-flowing waste_
_Which run's from them, would turne the wheeles and all_
_The frame of wit, to make their glory last:_
_I thinke they would doe something: but the stirre_
_Still about greatnesse, giues it not the space_
_To looke out from it selfe, or to conferre._
_Grace but by chance, and as men are in place._
_But that concern's not me, It is ynow_
_I doe applaud your worke. Thus from my Plow._

Samuel Daniel.

To my dearely-esteemed friend _M. Iohn Florio_.

_Kinde friend, the strictnesse of these few-few lines_
_Can not expresse thy worth, nor my goodwill:_
_As for thy worke, I leaue it to the skill,_
_And sharpest censure of the best engyn's._
_Nor can thy choise be better'd, who propynes_
_Th' industrious labor's of thy painefull quill_
_To one who is, and was, and shalbe still_
_That Phœbe, who in fulnesse euer shin's._
_She shalbe great Protectrice of thy paines,_
_And she will weigh this worke at no small rate;_
_I know hir high Heroike heart disdain's_
_To show it selfe forgetfull or ingrate:_
_Els she should wrong that race from whence she spring's_
_B'ing Daughter, Sister, Mother, wife to Kings._

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IOANNI FLORIO _Iacobus Mab_ hoc mittit Anagramma.

_Ioannes Florio.
Ori fons alieno._

Flore, per Hetruscos volitas apis Itala campos,
Inq; tuum condis roscida mella fauum.
Flore tuis Anglis, velut ORI FONS ALIENO,
Ausonias venâ perpete sundis opes.
Anglia sic per te gemino decoratur honore,
Flore tuo compta est, arida rore madet.

Vpon the tittle of _M._ IOHN FLORIO's second Italian Dictionarie, called QVEEN ANNA's _New world of words_.

__Florio_, thou doest deserue a world of flowers,_
_No garden can supply thy store of merit;_
_A garland made out of Parnassus bowers_
_Must girt thy temples and adorne thy spirit._
_Thy FORMER WORLD, built vp thy Fames high-towers,_
_Whereby eternall praise thou doest inherit;_
_But this NEW WORLD, giuen thee by sacred powers_
_Doeth to a neuer falling height now reare it._
_What Name, but from the Font of Maiesty_
_Could haue bin giuen vnto so rare a child?_
_It's fit, whose Sire liues in the Princes eye,_
_He, should to all hir subiects passe, so stil'd._
_The QVEEN his praises mak's hirs; hirs his are;_
_For she with him, and he with hir doeth share._