Written in the late sixteenth century, at the pinnacle of the English Renaissance, the rich and ingenious works of Thomas Nashe uniquely reveal the ambivant nature of the Elizabethan era. Mingling the devout and the bawdy, scholarship and slang, they express throughout an irrepressible, inexhaustibl[...]

Illustrates 1,000 most commonly used words by example sentences that provide contextual usage. This index is cross-referenced to the Cognate, Root and Suffix sections. It also includes an alphabetical index, which cross-references all the entries in the Root, Suffix and Frequency sections.[...]