§ 26, l. 8. Nearly all the MSS. omit from _Fertherover_ down to _right orisonte_. The missing clause appears in MS. Bodley 619; I have not found it elsewhere. It is obviously correct, and agrees sufficiently closely with the conjectural addition by Mr. Brae, in his edition of Chaucer's Astrolabe, p. 48. § 27, l. 2. _second_ the] _supplied from_ BCPM; A _om._ § 28. _Latin Rubric._ MS. has _in recto circulo_; read _obliquo_. 3. set] sett C; sete P; AB _omit_. 11. these] þese C; thise B; the A. 23. ende] heed A; heued C. In fact, _heed_, _heued_, or _hed_ seems to be the reading of all the MSS. and printed copies, and may have been a slip of the pen in the first instance. The reading _ende_ is, however, amply justified by its previous occurrence, four times over, in lines 10, 13, 16, 18. We thus have Six Northern signs. From _head_ of Aries to _end_ of Virgo. Six Southern signs. From _head_ of Libra to _end_ of Pisces. Six Tortuous signs. From _head_ of Capricorn to _end_ of Gemini. Six Direct signs. From _head_ of Cancer to _end_ of Sagittarius. Opposite 'sagittare' is written 'sagittarie' in the margin of A, probably as a correction; but it is left uncorrected in l. 27. § 29, l. 3. Turne thanne] Turne þan C; turn_e_ the thanne AB. 9. thou] þou C; two AB. 14. rewle] rule CP; _miswritten_ rewles AB; _see_ l. 9. § 30. l. 11. wey A; place C. _After_ zodiak C _inserts_--for on þe morowe wol þe s_on_ne be in a-noþer degre þan þan, et cetera; P _inserts_--For yn þe morowe wol þe sonne be yn an oþer gree, & norþ_er_ or souþ_er_ par aventure. Nothing can be plainer than that 'the way of the sun' in this passage means the small circle formed by the sun's apparent path during a day; the text says expressly--'the wey wher as the sonne wente thilke day.' We need not argue about the impossibility of a planet being found in 'the way of the Sun' at midnight at the time of the Summer solstice, because Chaucer makes no assertion whatever here about the relative positions of the sun and planet; indeed, he carefully repeats 'if' three times. He is only concerned with defining the phrase--'the latitude of a planet from the way of the sun'; and in every possible case, it is clear that a planet can be either (1) situate in the small circle called in the Latin rubric _cursus solis_, or (2) to the north of such a circle, or (3) to the south of such a circle. About this there need be no difficulty at all. It is all copied from Messahala. § 31, l. 7. azimut] azymutz ABC; cf. sect. 32, l. 8. § 33, l. 2. Azimut] Azymutz ABC; minutis P; _the same error as in_ sect. 31, l. 7; _but see_ sect. 32, l. 8. 3. _second_ in] yn P; ABC _omit_. 4. the night] _so in_ AB; CP _om._ the. § 34. _English Rubric_; latitude for] _so in_ CP; latitude and for AB. 6. toucheth] touchiþ P; to which (_sic_) ABC; _see_ sect. 27, l. 6. § 35, l. 15. _After_ west side, AB _add_ & yf he be on the est syde, _a mere superfluous repetition_; see l. 11.