and what is meant by a Fesse, Canton, Bend, &c. I held it no less necessary for every Gentleman to be so far seen in Heraldry, as to know (at least) the most usual Terms as when a Lyon or other Beast is said to be Dormant, Passant, Couchant, Saliant, Rampant, Seisant, Regardant, &c. with their proper Appellations As also the names and qualities of at least ordinary Diseases, I thought fit for the knowledg of many, who neither profess the study of Physick, Anatomy, nor Chyrurgery. The several parts of mans body, as the Pia and Dura Mater, the Messentery, Muscles, several sorts of Veins and Arteries, &c. For these Reasons, and to indulge my own fancy, I began to compile this Work which has taken me up the vacancy of above Twenty years.īesides the Words of the nature before specified, you have here such and so many of the most useful Law Terms as I thought necessary for every Gentleman of Estate to understand, not intending any thing elaborate for the studied Professors of that noble Science, there being some excellent Pieces of that nature already extant yet I have glean'd divers Law-terms which escaped both Cowel and the Terms of Law. I found nothing considerable in this kinde extant, though now many make it their study to be learned in our own Language and I remember Aristotles, Verba valent in usu sicut & nummi. I believ'd my self not singular in this ignorance and that few, without the help of a Dictionary, would be able to understand our ordinary English Books. The Semstress with a Crabbat, Toylet, &c.īy this new world of Words, I found we were slipt into that condition which Seneca complains of in his time When mens minds once begin to enure themselves to dislike, whatever is usual is disdained: They affect novelty in speech, they recal oreworn and uncouth words, they forge new phrases, and that which is newest is best liked there is presumptuous, and far fetching of words: And some there are that think it a grace, if their speech hover, and thereby hold the hearer in suspence, &c. The Haberdasher is ready to furnish with a Vigone, Codebec, or Castor, &c. The Barber will modifie your Beard into A la Manchim, a la Gascoinade, or a la Candale. The Shoo-maker will make you Boots, Whole-Chase, Demi-Chase, or Bottines, &c. The Taylor is ready to mode you into a Rochet, Mandillion, Gippon, Iustacor, Capouch, Hoqueton, or a Cloke of Drap-de-Berry, &c. Others with Sherbet, Agro di Cedro, Coffa, Chocolate, &c.
The Vintner will furnish you with Montefiascone, Alicant, Vernaccia, Ribolla, Tent, &c. Nay, to that pass we are now arrived, that in London many of the Tradesmen have new Dialects The Cook asks you what Dishes you will have in your Bill of Fare whether Olla's, Bisques, Hachies, Omelets, Bouillon's, Grilliades, Ioncades, Fricasses with a Hautgoust, Ragoust, &c. in London: And in the Country, of Hocktide, Minnyng days, Lurdanes, Quintins, &c. In the mouths of common people, I heard of Piazza, Balcone, &c. In every Mercurius, Coranto, Gazet, or Diurnal, I met with Camizado's, Pallizado's, Lantspezado's, Brigades, Squadrons, Curasiers, Bonmine, Halts, Iuncta's, Paroles &c. In Books of Divinity, I found Sanhedrim, Vrim and Thummim, Shibboleth Hypostatical, Circuminsession, Introversion, Extroversion, &c. Anabaptists, Arminians, Erastians, Thraskites, Socinians, Quakers, &c. So likewise both of antient and modern Sects as Arrians, Eutychians, Iacobites, &c. In the Roman Histories I often found mention of Consuls, Tribunes, Dictators, Pretors, Cohorts, Legions, Theaters, Obelisks The Capitol, Vatican, Pasquin, &c.Īnd in many other Books, mention of several Religious Orders as Carmelites, Carthusians, Cistersians, Theatins, Bonhomes, &c. In the Spanish, the Escurial, Infanta, Sanbenito, &c. In the French History, the Salique Law, Appennages, Vidams, Daulphin, &c. In the Turkish History I met with Ianizaries, Mufties, Timariots, Basha's, Seraglio's, Shashes, Turbants, &c. AFter I had bestowed the waste hours of some years in reading our best English Histories and Authors I found, though I had gained a reasonable knowledge in the Latin and French Tongues, as I thought, and had a smattering both of Greek and other Languages, yet I was often gravell'd in English Books that is, I encountred such words, as I either not at all, or not throughly understood, more then what the preceding sence did insinuate: For Example:
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