[Sidenote: Of the Vernacle.] IN YOURE ANNOTACIONS you describe, oute of the prologues, the vernacle to be a broche or figure, wherein was sett the instruments wherewith Christe was crucyfyed, and withall a napkyn whereine was the printe of his face. but the vernacle did not conteyne the instrumentes of his deathe, but only the clothe wherein was the figure of his face; as I conceve yt with others. [Sidenote: Master Thynne would read Campaneus for Capaneus, and giveth reasons.] Fo: 1. pa: 2. For Campaneus you wolde reade Capaneus, wherunto I cannott yelde. for althoughe Statius and other latine authors do call hym Capaneus; yet all the writers of Englande in that age call him campaneus; as Gower, in confessione amantis, and Lidgat in the historye of Thebes taken out of Statius, and Chaucer hym selfe in many other places. so that yt semethe they made the pronu{n}tiatione of Campaneus to be the dialecte of our tongue for Capaneus. Besides chaucer is in this to be p{ar}doned, in that taking his knightes tale out of the Thesayde of Bocas, written in Italiane (and of late translated into frenche,) doth there, after the Italiane manner, call him campaneus; for so the Italians pronounce woordes beginninge with cap: with the interposit{i}one of the l{ette}re m, pronouncinge yt camp: for, that w{hi}che the Latins call capitoliu{m}, the Italians call campidoglio; and suche lyke. Wherefore since yt was vniversallye receued in that age, to call him Campaneus: lett vs not nowe alter yt, but p{er}mytte yt to have free passage accordinge to the pronuntiat{i}one and wrytinge of that age. since, in deducinge woordes from one language to one other, there ys often additione and substract{i}one of letters, or of Sillabes, before, in the middle, and in the ende of those wordes. whereof infynyte examples mighte be produced, whiche I nowe shonne for brevytye.