Prose 7. [3]. I have wel desired: 'materiam gerendis rebus optauimus, quo ne uirtus tacita consenesceret.'
[10]. drawen to governaunce: 'allicere,' i. e. allure (simply).
[18]. a prikke, a point; cf. Parl. of Foules, 57; Troil. v. 1815; Ho. Fame, 907. From Ptolemy, Syntaxis, lib. i. cap. 6; cf. Macrobius, In Somnium Scipionis, lib. ii. c. 9.
[23]. Tholomee, Ptolemy; viz. in the beginning of book ii. of his Megale Syntaxis. See the same in Pliny, Nat. Hist. ii. 68.
[28]. wel unnethe, scarcely, hardly at all: 'uix angustissima inhabitandi hominibus area relinquetur.'
[34]. And also sette: 'Adde, quod hoc ipsum breuis habitaculi septum plures incolunt nationes.'
[38]. defaute ... marchaundise; Lat. only: 'tum conmercii insolentia.'
[41]. Marcus Tullius, i.e. Cicero, in his Somnium Scipionis, which originally formed part of the sixth book of the De Republica. See cap. vi. of that work, and Note to Parl. Foules, 31.
[43]. Caucasus; mentioned again in the Wyf of Bathes Tale, D 1140.
[45]. Parthes, Parthians.