tho Epicuriens and Stoiciens my famuleres, perverted (sc. persequendo)
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some through the errour of the wikkede or uncunninge
multitude of hem. This is to seyn that, for they semede philosophres,
they weren pursued to the deeth and slayn. So yif thou hast nat
knowen the exilinge of [Anaxogore], ne the enpoysoninge of
Socrates, ne the tourments of [Zeno], for they weren straungeres:
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yit mightestow han knowen the [Senecciens] and the [Canios] and
the [Sorans], of whiche folk the renoun is neither over-olde ne