v. 766. Phorocides] i. e. Pherecydes.
v. 767. auncyente] i. e. antiquity.
Page 74. v. 768. to diffuse for me] i. e. too difficult for me to understand. “Dyffuse harde to be vnderstande, diffuse.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. lxxxvi. (Table of Adiect.).
“What quoth Doctryne where is he now
That meued this mater straunge and dyffuse.”
Lydgate’s Assemble de dyeus, sig. f ii. n. d. 4to.
“Whyche is defuse, and right fallacyous.”
Hawes’s Pastime of pleasure, sig. H i. ed. 1555.
“But oft yet by it [logick] a thing playne, bright and pure,