{83} See _Letters of Horace Walpole and Mann_, vol. ii. p. 396, quoted in _Notes and Queries_, No. 225; and another proof of the novelty of the word in Pegge’s _Anecdotes of the English Language_, 1814, p. 38. {84} Postscript to his _Translation of the Æneid_. {85} Multa renascentur, quæ jam cecidere. _De A. P._ 46-72; cf. _Ep._ 2, 2, 115. {86} _Etymologicon vocum omnium antiquarum quæ usque a Wilhelmo Victore invaluerunt, et jam ante parentum ætatem in usu esse desierunt._ {87} [As a matter of fact the N.E.D. fails to give any quotation for this word in the period named.] {88} [The verb ‘to advocate’ had long before been employed by Nash, 1598, Sanderson, 1624, and Heylin, 1657 (F. Hall, _Mod. English_, p. 285).] {89} In like manner La Bruyère, in his _Caractères_, c. 14, laments the extinction of a large number of French words which he names. At least half of these have now free course in the language, as ‘valeureux’, ‘haineux’, ‘peineux’, ‘fructueux’, ‘mensonger’, ‘coutumier’, ‘vantard’, ‘courtois’, ‘jovial’, ‘fétoyer’, ‘larmoyer’, ‘verdoyer’. Two or three of these may be rarely used, but every one would be found in a dictionary of the living language. {90} _Preface to Juvenal._ {91} _Preface to Troilus and Cressida._ In justice to Dryden, and lest it should be said that he had spoken poetic blasphemy, it ought not to be forgotten that ‘pestered’ had not in his time at all so offensive a sense as it would have now. It meant no more than inconveniently crowded; thus Milton: “Confined and _pestered_ in this pinfold here”. {92} Thus in North’s _Plutarch_, p. 499: “After the fire was quenched, they found in _niggots_ of gold and silver mingled together, about a thousand talents”; and again, p. 323: “There was brought a marvellous great mass of treasure in _niggots_ of gold”. The word has not found its way into our dictionaries or glossaries. {93} [‘Niggot’ rather stands for ‘ningot’, due to a coalescence of the article in ‘an ingot’ (as if ‘a ningot’); just as, according to some, in French _l’ingot_ became _lingot_.] {94} [Such collections were essayed in J. C. Hare’s _Two Essays in English Philology_, 1873, “_Words derived from Names of Persons_”, and in R. S. Charnock’s _Verba Nominalia_, pp. 326.] {95} [In a strangely similar way the stone-worshipper in the Malay Peninsula gives to his sacred boulder the title of Mohammed (Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, 3rd ed. ii. 254).]