Golden Frog

(No. 14. p. 214.).—Sir John Poley's frog may have been a device alluding to his name; I imagine that Poley is an appelative of frogs. I find in Halliwell's *Dict. of Archaic Words*, "*Polly*wig," and in Jamieson's *Scottish Dictionary*, "*Pow*lick," both meaning tadpole, and both *diminutive* forms; and Rowley *Poley* is closely (though not very logically) connected with the *frog* who would a-wooing go. The word has probably the same root as *poole, puddle*, &c.