As to the name of William, and the amount of personal distinction which that confers upon its owners, he begins by telling us, that the name of Guienne is said to be derived from the Williams of our ancient Aquitaine, 'which would seem,' he says, rather far fetched, were there not as crude derivations in Plato himself, to whom he refers in other places for similar precedents; and when he wishes to excuse his enigmatical style--the titles of his chapters for instance. And by way of emphasizing this particular still further, he mentions, that on the occasion when Henry, the Duke of Normandy, the son of Henry the Second, of England, made a feast in France, the concourse of nobility and gentry was so great, that for _sport's sake_ he divided them into _troops, according to their names_, and in the _first troop, which consisted of Williams_, there were found a hundred and ten knights sitting at the table of that name, without reckoning the simple gentlemen and servants. And here he apparently digresses from his subject for the sake of mentioning the Emperor _Geta_, 'who distributed the several courses of his meats by the _first letters of the meats_ themselves, where those that began with _B_ were served up together; _as_ brawn, beef, beccaficos, and so of the others.' This appears to be a little out of the way; but it is not impossible that there may be an allusion in it to the author's own family name of _Eyquem_, though that would be rather farfetched, as he says; but then there is _Plato_ at hand, still to keep us in countenance.