ANNOT.
By the great Satyr and Tyger of Hircania, is meant, the King of Persia, who is also King of Hircania, abounding with Tygers.
That King of Persia shall be made a gift to those of the Ocean; that is, shall be either drowned in it, or do some wonderful things upon it.
Carmania is a Province in Asia, belonging to the Turk.
The Thyrren Phocean is the City of Marseilles in France, so called by the Author in this Book; because it was a Colony of the Phocenses in Greece; it is also called Thyrren, because it is seated upon the Tyrrhenean Sea, as Virgil saith,
————Thyrrenum navigat Æquor.
XCI.
French.
L’Arbre qu’estoit par long temps mort seiché,