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Still

Cornelius Tacitus is called Corndius the Still in the Fardle of Facions, “still” being a translation of the Latin wordtacitus.

“Cornelius the Stylle in his first book of his yerely exploietes called in Latine Ansales ...”. - Ch. iii s. 3 (1555).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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