ABSTRACT
[11] Those which search out the Pedigree of wordes, hunting after the subtilties of Etymologies, would needes perswade vs that out of the very fashion & composition of the name may bee gathered the true propriety of each thing. Generally in all wordes to attempt this extraction, might perhaps seeme too nice a curiosity, worthy to bee put amongst the number of those thinges, which Seneca calls ‘graue trifles.’ 1 Yet in many wee see that the reason of the name & the condition of the thinge doe soe fitly & fully accord, that one would sometimes willingly yeild to their opinion, which held that names were first giuen to thinges not att happe hazard, but rather vpon good & mature deliberation.
