[9]. to walken under, to enter: 'subire.'
[10]. enclined, i.e. enclined earthwards: 'Prona.'
[11]. hevieth, oppresses: 'Prona tamen facies hebetes ualet ingrauare sensus.' From Aristotle, On the Parts of Animals, Bk. iv. Διὸ πλείονος γενομένου τοῦ βάρους καὶ τοῦ σωματώδους, ἀνάγκη ῥέπειν τὰ σώματα πρὸς τὴν γῆν (chap. 10). As to the upright carriage of man, see the same chapter. Cf. Ovid, Met. i. 84, and see note to Chaucer's 'Truth,' l. 19.
[12]. light, i.e. not bowed down: 'leuis recto stat corpore.'
[14]. axest, seemest to seek: 'caelum ... petis.'
Prose 6. [21]. as Aristotle demed; in De Caelo, lib. i.
[33]. present: 'et sui compos praesens sibi semper assistere.'
[42]. Plato. This notion is found in Proclus and Plotinus, and other followers of Plato; but Plato himself really expressed a contrary opinion, viz. that the world had a definite beginning. See his Timæus.
[48]. For this ilke: 'Hunc enim uitae immobilis praesentarium statum infinitus ille temporalium rerum motus imitatur; cumque eum effingere atque aequare non possit, ex immobilitate deficit in motum, et ex simplicitate praesentiae decrescit in infinitam futuri ac praeteriti quantitatem;' &c.
[53]. disencreseth; a clumsy form for decreseth: 'decrescit.'