Hawes, Pastime of Pleasure.
Also that every of the said landlords put their second sons to learn some clergy, or some craft, whereby they may live honestly.—State Papers, State of Ireland, 1515, vol. ii. p. 30.
Climate. At present the temperature of a region, but once the region itself, the region, however, contemplated in its slope or inclination from the equator toward the pole, and therefore, by involved consequence, in respect of its temperature; which circumstance is the point of contact between the present meaning of ‘climate’ and the past. We have derived the word from the mathematical geographers of antiquity. They were wont to run imaginary parallel lines, or such at least as they intended should be parallel, to the equator; and the successive ‘climates’ (κλίματα) of the earth were the spaces and regions between these lines. See Holland’s Pliny, vol. i. p. 150.
The superficialtee of the erthe is departed in 7 parties for the 7 planetes, and tho parties ben clept clymates.—Mandeville, p. 186.
The longitude of a clymat ys a lyne ymagined fro est to west, illike distant by-twene them alle.—Chaucer, Treatise on the Astrolabe, 2, 39, 17 (Skeat, E.E.T.S. xvi).
Almost five climates henceward to the south,
Between the mainland and the ocean’s mouth
Two islands lie.
The Funerals of King Edward VI.
When these prodigies