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the same page are written out in this character the four lines printed on page 170, Utopos ha, &c.," and below them the Latin rendering which Robynson has put into English. The Latin is in the four following lines:

16.

"Utopus me dux ex non insula fecit insulam.
Una ego terrarum omnium absque philosophia
Civitatem philosophicam expressi mortalibus.

Libenter impartio mea, non gravatim accipio meliora."

more earnestly addict to heare, i. e. more bent on hearing every thing than at other times, because Sir Thomas More's attention being for the moment withdrawn it behoved Peter Gyles to listen more carefully to all that Raphael said.

20. stynte nor rest. The Lat. has only one word, "conquiescam," but, as has been noticed before, it is quite in Robynson's manner to give double renderings of words. For stint cease cp. Shaks. Pericles, IV. 4. 42, "Wherefore she does and swears she'll never stint, Make raging battery upon shores of flint."

24. sublevation. We now use "elevation."

28. coulde not away with, i. e. could not bear, walk along the way with. The Lat. has "non ferens"=not bearing. Cp. 15. 9.

P. 169, line 1. cosmographers, i. e. describers of the world. We now say geographers. Cp. infra, line 6.

2. dissolved, i.e. solved the question, explained it. Cp. Dan. v. 12, "Forasmuch as an excellent spirit and knowledge and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts were found in the same Daniel." The word in this sense is rare. 8. author, i. e. authority, warrant.

22. O liberall supporter of good learninge. In allusion to Busleiden's foundation of the College at Louvain. The Latin text has "studiorum Mæcenas."

23. well to fare. We rather say "farewell." The older form shews the grammatical construction of the words "I bid (i.e. pray) you to fare well."

P. 170, line 15. earst, i. e. erst, in earliest times, formerly.

19. nothinge daungerous, i.e. in no wise unwilling, or making difficulties about. "Since I am not at all unwilling to impart my knowledge so, &c."

21. A shorte meter. The Latin text of these lines is given in the original edition on p. 11 thus:

"Utopia priscis dicta, ob infrequentiam,

Nunc civitatis æmula Platonicæ,

Fortasse victrix (nam quod ille literis
Delineavit, hoc ego una præstiti,
Viris et opibus, optimisque legibus)

Eutopia merito sum vocanda nomine."

24. cleped, i.e. called. The past part. "y-clept" remained long in the language.

25. Voyde of haunte and herboroughe, i. e. seldom visited by strangers and offering little to invite such.

26. Platoes citie. The imaginary one described in Plato's Republic. Utopia professes to be a realization of what the Greek philosopher only set forth on paper.

P. 171, line 2. platte, i. e. plot. Used of ground and so here of the imaginary site of Plato's perfect republic. Cp. the following line.

8. Eutopie. As if from euwell and Tóπos, a place. It should rather now be called "Place of felicity" than Utopia, i. e. "Nowhere." 9. Gerarde Nouiomage. The following twelve lines are a representation in English of six elegiac lines which in the original edition appear on the last page but one, thus:

"Dulcia lector amas? Sunt hic dulcissima quæque.

Utile si quæris, nil legis utilius.

Sive utrumque voles, utroque hæc insula abundat,
Quo linguam ornes, quo doceas animum.

Hic fontes aperit recti pravique disertus

Morus Londini gloria prima sui."

The Latin text may help the reader to the meaning of the English. the (bis), i. e. thee.

IO.

14. passinge, i. e. surpassing, very great, excessive. Cp. Shaks. Two Gentlemen, II. 1. 81, "Her passing deformity."

21. subject, i.e. placed beneath so as to be easily seen. Cp. 166. 14. Cornelius Graphy. The English represents six elegiac lines, which run thus, and are given below the preceding six :

24.

"Vis nova monstra novo dudum nunc orbe reperto?
Vivendi varia vis ratione modos?

Vis qui virtutum fontes? vis unde malorum
Principia? et quantum rebus inane latet?
Hæc lege quæ vario Morus dedit ille colore
Morus Londinæ nobilitatis honos."

25. the lande that late was founde, i. e. the newly-discovered continent of America.