minute trifles

335. Belisarius at beggar's bush. According to the common tradition, Belisarius, after being blinded, begged his daily bread at the gates of the convent of Laurus Bajazet in the grate. The Sultan Bajazet, in the fourteenth century, was said to have been carried about by his conqueror, Timur, in an iron cage

336. apogeum.

The point at which heavenly bodies are most distant from the earth

349. culverkeyes. The flowers called columbines

361. sneaped snubbed. Cf. "sneaping winds" in Winters Tale 366. alta mente repostum=buried in the depths of their mind 377. Templa Deo, etc. He gave churches to God, monks to the churches, lands to the monks Templa adimit, etc. He robs the gods of their churches, the citizens of their markets, the husbandmen of their fields 379. glorre=grease or fat 384. tameth. This is perhaps equi

valent to " teameth"

carries

407.

Romuli in Plato's ideal re

public, and not in the dregs of actual life

in tanto viro, etc. In such a man, would be but to insult his virtues

409. et in luctu, etc. And in his grief, he counted war as one possible remedy

425.

O fortunati nimium, etc. =0 generation, exceeding happy, if only they knew their own

fell upon a war, one part of which brought an excess of wickedness, the other part a dearth of happiness 471. rebec. A sort of guitar ballatry. A jig or song Monte Mayors. Referring to G.

de Montemayor's Arcadian romance of Diana Enamorada (Valencia, 1542)

473. Enchiridion a handbook 474. he whom an honest quæstorship = Cicero

475. Syntagma=scheme of doctrine 476. pismires=ants 511. chitted=sprouted

nebulones means "' worthless fellows." But it would seem

as if Harrington had in his mind nebula (clouds), with its derivative nebulosus

nine-holes or trow - madam. Games of different kinds 512. bossolo di non sinceri = the box of insincere men

grotto di cane. The grotto near Pozzuolo, the effect of the

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mephitic exhalations from which was exhibited on dogs 512. mumchance or stool-ball. Mumchance was a sort of panto

mime; stool-ball, a game at ball

513. Imperium Oceano, etc. which is to bound her empire only by the ocean, her fame only by the stars

523. pickeering = pilfering, or pillaging Py-powder. The court of Pypowder was a rough tribunal for the settlement of disputes at fairs

529. ̓Αλλ' ἐγὼ ἐς καθαρῶν, etc. = But I kindle the fire of wisdom in the mind of pure men κέντρον κέντρῳ, etc. = touching spur with spur

530. Thomas and Scotus. The two Schoolmen, Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus

Tain μèv yap, etc. for by earth we discern earth, and water by water

538. ὅμοιος ἂν εἶναι δόξαιμι, etc. =Ι would seem to be like those who heedlessly, ignorantly, and at random, say whatever occurs to them

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539. in genere naturæ in the way of nature; in genere morum in the way of conduct; materia intellectuali in the matter of understanding

In omni precatione, etc. = In every prayer the priest, who utters the petitions, is wont to call upon Vesta and Janus and the other gods in prescribed words, and after a settled form

Itaque sua carmina suæque precationes, etc. Therefore their proper forms and prayers are fixed for each of the gods; and, in order that nothing might be said out of its due order, it was usual that some one should lead in these prayers after the prescribed ritual, and keep them strictly to the set words

562. much what the same method. This use of "what," which later usage has discarded, is frequently found in the writers of the time

578. studiis florere ignobilis otî = to be happy in the pursuit of inglorious ease (Georg. iv. 564)