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/*. 45. /. 17. — That Eneas hcyr coumieiiJis
ills self, it is not to be tayn tliat lie said this for
arrogans, hot for to schaw his scyll ; as a hyng
or prince onknauin in an onkowtli land, may,
but ropreif, rehers liis estate and dygnite, to
niak bini be tretyt as afferis. And als, bccaus
he trastyt he spak \\itli a goddcs, that sclio
suhl nocht aschaym to remayn and talk with
hym therfor : and becaus scho was a woman,
lie soliew that he was a man of autorite, with
quham thai nedis nocht ascham to speyk ; for
he was tluit man quhilk, by the common voce,
was clepit Eneas full of pyetc. And for that
Virgin clepis hym swa all thro this bujk, and
I interpret that term, quhylys, for rewth, qiihils,
for devotion, and quhilis, for p//ete and com-
passion ; tharfor ye sail knaw that pyete is a
vcrtii, or gud deid, be the quhilk we geif our
dylligent and detfull lawbour to our natyve eun-
tre, and onto thaim beyn conionyt to vs in neyr
degre : and this vertu, pyete, is a part of jus-
tyce, and hes ondyr hym twa other vcrtws ;
amyte, callyt frendschip, and liberalyte.
P. 45. /. 24. — Vaio sals that Eneas, fra iiis
departing of Troy qubil he coym in the feldis
of Lawrentum, all the day saw the stani of
Venus; and qulien he was thiddir cummyn
he saw it na mair, quharby he ondirstud that
was his gruiid fatayll.
P. 4(). I. 10. — Parentis betakynnys thechildis
fader and moder baith.
P. 46. /. 13. — The Egill be poetis is fenyeit
to be Jovis fowlc, and that ho maid ministra-
tion to him of the thunder and wapynnys the
tyme of the battale betwix the god Dis and the
gyantis. Bot, war it lefull to compar prophane
fabillis to haly Scriptour, Sanct John the ewan-
gelist is vcrray Jovis egill, and clepit son of
thundir.
P. 50. /. 6.—
Attrides l)eyn in Latyn clepit thus
Thir nevois rcput of kvng Attrvus,
Tliiit in our kngage are the broder tivay,
Kyng Agamemnon, and Duke Jfenalay.
P. 63. /, 8. Of Typhon, or Typheus, in the
xi. c. of the ix. buke.
CJETERA DESUNT.