Note 244 — Chapter V
Reading edition
The Natural History (of which the text I use is Bekker’s) is practically the only work by Aristotle discussed here. For me, being no “Clerk” although “of Oxenford,” it is not, as—
“For him was lever have, at his beddes heed, Twenty bokes, clad in black or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophye, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrye.”