Metre 10. [8]. Tagus; the well-known river flowing by Toledo and Lisbon, once celebrated for its golden sands; see Ovid, Am. i. 15. 34; Met. ii. 251, &c.
[10]. Hermus, an auriferous river of Lydia, into which flowed the still more celebrated Pactolus. 'Auro turbidus Hermus;' Verg. Georg. ii. 137.
rede brinke: 'rutilante ripa.'
Indus; now the Sind, in N. W. India.
[11]. that medleth: 'candidis miscens uirides lapillos'; which Chaucer explains as mingling smaragdes (emeralds) with margaretes (pearls); see footnote on p. 80.
[17]. that eschueth: 'Vitat obscuras animae ruinas.'
Prose 11. [3]. How mochel; i.e. at what price will you appraise it: 'quanti aestimabis.'
[24]. The thinges thanne: 'Quae igitur, cùm discrepant, minimè bona sunt; cùm uero unum esse coeperint, bona fiunt: nonne haec ut bona sint, unitatis fieri adeptione contingit?'
[55]. non other; i.e. no other conclusion: 'minimè aliud uidetur.'
[63]. travaileth him, endeavours: 'tueri salutem laborat.'