e; perquisitio,
purchase; anguilla, eel; insula, isle, ile, island, iland; insuletta,
islet, ilet, eyght, and more contractedly ey, whence Owsney, Ruley,
Ely; examinare, to scan; namely, by rejecting from the beginning and
end e and o, according to the usual manner, the remainder xamin, which
the Saxons, who did not use x, writ csamen, or scamen, is contracted
into scan: as from dominus, don; nomine, noun; abomino, ban; and indeed
apum examen; they turned into sciame; for which we say swarme, by
inserting r to denote the murmuring; thesaurus, store; sedile, stool;
[Greek: hyetos], wet; sudo, sweat; gaudium, gay; jocus, joy; succus,
juice; catena, chain; caliga, calga; chause, chausse, French, hose;
extinguo, stand, squench, quench, stint; foras, forth; species, spice;
recito, read; adjuvo, aid; [Greek: aion], aevum, ay, age, ever; floccus,
lock; excerpo, scrape, scrabble, scrawl; extravagus, stray, straggle;
collectum, clot, clutch; colligo, coil: recolligo, recoil; severo,
swear; stridulus, shrill; procurator, proxy; pulso, to push; calamus, a
quill; impetere, to impeach; augeo, auxi, wax; and vanesco, vanui,
wane; syllabare, to spell; puteus, pit; granum, corn; comprimo, cramp,
crump, crumple, crinkle.

Some may seem harsher, yet may not be rejected, for it at least
appears, that some of them are derived from proper names, and there are
others whose etymology is acknowledged by every body; as, Alexander,
Elick, Scander, Sander, Sandy, Sanny; Elizabetha, Elizabeth, Elisabeth,
Betty, Bess; Margareta, Margaret, Marget, Meg, Peg; Maria, Mary, Mal,
Pal, Malkin, Mawkin, Mawkes; Mathaeus, Mattha, Matthew; Martha, Mat,
Pat; Gulielmus, Wilhelmus, Girolamo, Guillaume, William, Will, Bill,
Wilkin, Wicken, Wicks, Weeks.

Thus cariophyllus, flos; gerofilo, Italian, giriflee, gilofer, French,
gilliflower, which the vulgar call julyflower, as if derived from the
month July; petroselinum, parsley; portulaca, purslain; cydonium,
quince; cydoniatum, quiddeny; persicum, peach; eruca, eruke, which they
corrupt to earwig, as if it took its name from the ear; annulus
geminus, a gimmal, or gimbal-ring; and thus the word gimbal or jumbal
is transferred to other things thus interwoven; quelques choses,
kickshaws. Since the origin of these, and many others, however forced,
is evident, it ought to appear no