CAP: II.
Reading edition
Of the Ilandes of Grece.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · : Calliste, which Ferrarius, in his Lexicon Geographicum (edit. 1670), says is an island in the Ægean Sea. The other islands have different Note 2 · : Powder, dust.Note 3 · : Uninjured.Note 4 · : Furnished.Note 5 · : Jousting or tilting.Note 6 · : Inconvenience.Note 7 · : Pynson and other editions say Two thousand.Note 8 · : Here the chronology is somewhat involved, as Hermogenes lived in the time of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, who was born a.d. 121.Note 9 · : Plenary.Note 10 · : Absolve.Note 11 · : Covetousness.Note 12 · : Unleavened bread.Note 13 · : Last Supper.Note 14 · : Shrove Thursday.Note 15 · : In the sun.Note 16 · : Doom, or the day of judgment.Note 17 · : Scandal.Note 18 · : If by chance they should do so.Note 19 · : Only seemed to eat.Note 20 · : Forbidden.Note 21 · 20: Promised.Note 22 · 20: Hinders.Note 23 · ABOUT Grece be many yles that men cal Calastre,1 Calcas Settygo, Thoysoria, Mynona, Faxton, Molo, Carparte and Lempne, and in this yle is moNote 24 · At Constantinople is the Emperours palaice which is fayre and well dight,4 and therein is a palaice for justing,5 and it is made about with Note 25 · And thus they saye that we sinne in eating of fleshe on the dayes before Ashwednesday, and in eating of fleshe on the Wednesdaye, and when w