84 Orlando; and lately Tasso dissevered them again, and formed

Orlando > (Orlando Furioso, 1516) Tasso > (Torquato Tasso, 1544-1595, Italian poet) dissevered > separated

85 both parts in two persons, namely that part which they in 86 Philosophy call Ethics, or virtues of a private man, coloured

coloured > depicted

87 in his Rinaldo: the other, named Politics, in his Godfredo.

Rinaldo > (Rinaldo, 1562)
Godfredo > (Count Godfredo, central character of Gerusalemme
Liberata
, 1581)

88 By example of which excellent poets, I labour to portray in 89 Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave knight,

brave > brave; splendid

90 perfected in the twelve private moral virtues, as Aristotle has

Aristotle > (Or rather, Aquinas and other medieval interpreters of Aristotle's Nicomachaean Ethics; Aristotle himself devises no such scheme)