[772] 'Staine' for excel. The sense is, "It is for turquoises to excel one another, not for diamonds, for among the latter there can be no comparison, since all are perfect."
[773] Lyly refers both to the Persian sun-worshippers and the saying of Pompey, "More worship the rising than the setting sun."
[774] All preceding texts read 'that which.'
[775] Odyssey, 11.
[776] Fear.
[777] Esteems.
[778] In all things he is that than.
[779] Mentioned in North's Plutarch, Nutt, IV. 345, 353, 380.
[780] If it like. See p. [327].
[781] Sic A. and B.; Bl. 'Chyeronte.'