16. Full of jargon as a flecked pie: he chattered like a magpie

17. Nearly all the manuscripts read “in two of Taure;” but

Tyrwhitt has shown that, setting out from the second degree of

Taurus, the moon, which in the four complete days that Maius

spent in her chamber could not have advanced more than fifty-

three degrees, would only have been at the twenty-fifth degree

of Gemini — whereas, by reading “ten,” she is brought to the

third degree of Cancer.

18. Kid; or “kidde,” past participle of “kythe” or “kithe,” to

show or discover.

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