Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

'4J-NOTES.—226. Be well sene in, be well skilled in, have evident skill in.2^2. Collosiens; see Col. ii. 8.267. By this meanes, at this rate ; as before, 1. 22. This is supposed tobe sfx^kcn by an objecter.287. Meked ibevi andfeared them, made them meek and fearful.305. Wbonie, home; the pronunciation wbome is provincial, and heardin many parts of England. Tyndale was born in Gloucestershire.309. Benefundatum, lit. that which is well founded ; I suppose it tomean rudiments of logic.316. Reall. The disputes between the Realists and Nominalists wereendless. The Realists contended that things (res), and not names orwords {notni/ia), were the true subjects of dialectics. The Nominalistssaid the contrary,317. Predicamentes, classes of ideas, called by the Greeks categories,and by the Romans predicaments ; but I do not pretend to explain allthese school terms, which Tyndale justly ridicules. In Milton's ' VacationExercise,' written at the age of nineteen, Ens is represented asthe father of the Predicaments, his two sons, whereof the eldest stoodforSubstance, &c.330. Facions, fashions, not factions; seefacionetb below, 1. 338.339- Of ^'hat tixte, by whatever text.34 1. Lymho patrum; see Milton, Par. Lost. iii.495,342. Assnmpcion ; the Assumption, or taking up into heaven, of theVirgin Mary, is said to have taken place August 15, a.d. 45. The festivalwas kept on Aug. 15.344. Graye frere, Franciscan; hlacke frere, Dominican. See notes toTierce the Ploughman's Crede; p. 357.369. John via. ; i.e. John viii. 25, where Tyndale's translation has.\nd Jesus sayde vnto them, " Even the very same thynge that I sayevnto you." The next ' quotation, My wordes, ' &c.,' is from John vi. 63.373. cxviij Psalme. This probably means Ps. cxix. ; see Ps. cxix. 1-5.Psalm cxix. is called cxviii. in the Vulgate version3K6. Rohyn bode. See, in the Percy Folio MSS., ed. Hales and Furnivall,the ' Robin Hood Ballads ; ' and the exploits of Sir Bevis ofSouthampton, in the second book of Drayton's ' Polyolbion.' Hercules,Hector, and Troilus all figure in the old Histories of Troy, which follow(iui^lode Colonna rather than Homer.391. Paul. See Eph. V. 3-5 ; also verse 6.405. Erasmu\ bom at Rotterdam, October 28, 1467 ; died at Basel,July II. 1536. A complete edition of his works was printed in 1703-I706 ;in vol v. (p. 138) is the piece entitled ' Dcsiderii Erasmi RoterodamiParaclesis, id est, adhortatio ad Christianae philosophiae studium.'