[12]. tyrannyes. This reading (in C ed.) gives the sense better than the reading tyrauntis (in A); although the latter is quite literal.

Prose 3. [7]. stadie, race-course: 'in stadio'; which Chaucer explains by 'furlong.'

[10]. purposed, equivalent to proposed; 'praemium commune propositum.'

[14]. For which thing: 'quare probos mores sua praemia non relinquunt.'

[25], [26]. so as, whereas. for men, because men.

[27]. part-les, without his share of: 'praemii ... expertem.'

[35]. no day: 'quod nullus deterat dies.'

[39]. undepartable, inseparable: 'inseparabili poena.'

[49]. may it semen: 'possuntne sibi supplicii expertes uideri, quos omnium malorum extrema nequitia non afficit modò, verumetiam uehementer inficit?'

[70]. under, beneath, below: 'infra hominis meritum.'