storehouse of words
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"Promus" means larder or storehouse, and these "Fourmes, Formularies and Elegancyes" appear to have been intended as a storehouse of words and phrases to be employed in the production of subsequent literary works.
From Bacon is Shake-Speare by Durning-Lawrence, Sir Edwin