The name of messenger is derived from the Latin word _missaticum_, and
this from _missus_, one sent. The old French _mes_ was applied both to
the _message_ and the _messager_.
“_But eare_ he thus had say’d,
With flying speede and seeming great pretence,
Came running in, much like a man dismay’d,
A _messenger_ with letters, which his _message_ say’d.”