Patience, too, was male as well as female. Sir Patience Warde was Lord Mayor of London in 1681. Thus the weaker vessels were not allowed to monopolize the graces. How familiar some of these abstract names had become, the Cavalier shall tell us in his parody of the sanctimonious Roundheads' style: "'Ay, marry,' quoth Agatha, And Temperance, eke, also: Quoth Hannah, 'It's just,' and Mary, 'It must,' 'And shall be,' quoth Grace, 'I trow.'" Several "Truths" occur in the "Chancery Suits" of Elizabeth, and the Greek Alathea arose with it: "1595, June 27. Faith and Truth, gemini, -- John Johnson, bapt."--Wath, Ripon. Alathea lasted till the eighteenth century was well-nigh out: "1701, Dec. 4. Francis Milles to Alathea Wilton."--West. Abbey. "1720, Sep. 18. Buried Alydea, wife of Will{m}. Gough, aged 42 years."--Harnhill, Glouc. "1786, Oct. 6. Died Althea, wife of Thomas Heberden, prebendary."--Exeter Cath.[42] Honour, of course, became Honora, in the eighteenth century, and has retained that form: "1583, Aug. 24. Baptized Honor, daughter of Thomas Teage."--St. Columb Major. "1614, July 4. Baptized Honour, d. of John Baylye, of Radcliffe."--Stepney. "1667, Oct. 9. Christened Mary, d. of Sir John and Lady Honour Huxley."--Hammersmith. "1722, Oct. 4. Christened Martha, d. of John and Honoria Hart."--St. Dionis Backchurch. Sir Thomas Carew, Speaker of the Commons in James's and Charles's reign, had a wife Temperance, and four daughters, Patience, Temperance, Silence, and Prudence (Lodge's "Illust.," iii. 37). Possibly, as Speaker, he had had better opportunity to observe that these were the four cardinal parliamentary virtues, especially Silence. This last was somewhat popular, and seems to have got curtailed to "Sill," as Prudence to "Pru," and Constance to "Con." In the Calendar of "State Papers" (June 21, 1666), a man named Taylor, writing to another named Williamson, wishes "his brother Sill would come and reap the sweets of Harwich." Writing again, five days later, he asks "after his brother, Silence Taylor." This was one of the names that crossed the Atlantic and became a fixture in America (Bowditch). It is not, however, to be confounded with Sill, that is, Sybil, in the old Cavalier chorus: "'And God blesse King Charles,' quoth George, 'And save him,' says Simon and Sill." Silence is one of the few Puritan names that found its way into the north of England: "1741, Dec. 9. Married Robert Thyer to Silence Leigh."--St. Ann, Manchester.