Note {1} — Chapter XXVI

Note 1.—The G. Text has “et ce est mout sçue chouse”; Pauthier’s Text, “mais il est moult celé.” The latter seems absurd. I have no doubt that sçue is correct, and is an Italianism, saputo having sometimes the sense of prudent or judicious. Thus P. della Valle (II. 26), speaking of Sháh Abbás: “Ma noti V.S. i tiri di questo re, saputo insieme e bizzarro,” “acute with all his eccentricity.”