_Etymology of "Parse"_ (Vol. ii., p. 118.).--Surely _to parse_ is to take
by itself each _pars_, or part of speech. The word does not seem to have
been known in 1611 when Brinsley published his _Posing of the Parts: or, a
most plain and easie Way of examining the Accidence and Grammar_. This work
appears to have been very popular, as I have by me the _twelfth_ edition,
London, 1669. In 1612, the same author issued his _Ludus Literarius: or the
Grammar Schoole_. Both these works interest me in him. Can any of your
readers communicate any particulars of his history?