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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