3207. _cetewale_, zedoary; but commonly, though improperly, applied to valerian (_Valeriana pyrenaica_); also spelt _setwall_. Gerarde, in his Herball (ed. 1597, p. 919), says that 'it hath beene had (and is to this day among the poore people of our northerne parts) in such veneration amongst them, that no brothes, pottages, or phisicall meates are woorthe anything, if _setwall_ were not at one end'; &c. See Britten's Plant-Names (E. D. S.). See note to B. 1950. 3208. _Almageste_; Arab. _almajist[=i]_; from _al_, the, and _majist[=i]_, for Gk. [Greek: megistê];, short for [Greek: megistê suntaxis], 'greatest composition,' a name given to the great astronomical treatise of Ptolemy; hence extended to signify, as here, a text-book on astrology. See Hallam, Middle Ages, c. i. 77. Ptolemy's work 'was in thirteen books. He also wrote four books of judicial astrology. He was an Egyptian astrologist, and flourished under Marcus Antoninus.'--Warton. See D. 182, 325, 2289. And see my note to Chaucer's Astrolabe, i. 17; vol. iii. p. 354. 3209. See Chaucer's own treatise on The Astrolabe, which he describes. It was an instrument consisting of several flat circular brass plates, with two revolving pointers, used for taking altitudes, and other astronomical purposes. _longinge for_, suitable for, belonging to. 3210. _augrim-stones_, counters for calculation. _Augrim_ is _algorism_ (see New Eng. Dict.), or the Arabic system of arithmetic, performed with the Arabic numerals, which became known in Europe from translations of a work on algebra by the Arab mathematician Abu Ja'far Mohammed Ben Musa, surnamed _al-Khow[=a]razm[=i]_, or the native of Khw[=a]razm (Khiva). Chaucer speaks of 'nombres in _augrim_'; Astrolabe, i. 9. 3. 3212. _falding_, a kind of coarse cloth; see note on A. 391. 3216. _Angelus ad virginem._ This hymn occurs in MS. Arundel [98] 248, leaf 154, written about 1260, both in Latin and English, and with musical notes. It is printed, with a facsimile of part of the MS., at p. 695 of the print of MS. Harl. 7334, issued by the Chaucer Society. The first verse of the Latin version runs thus:-- 'Angelus ad uirginem subintrans in conclaue, Virginis formidinem demulcens, inquit "Aue! Aue! regina uirginum celi terreque dominum concipies et paries intacta, salutem hominum tu, porta celi facta, medela criminum."' Hence the subject of the anthem is the Annunciation. 3217. _the kinges note_, the name of some tune or song. There is nothing to identify it with a _chant royal_, described by Warton, Hist. E. Poet. ii. 221, note b. Warton says that 'Chaucer calls the _chant royal_ ... a _kingis note_.' But Chaucer says '_THE kinges note_,' which makes all the difference; it is merely a bad guess. A song entitled 'Kyng villyamis note,' or 'King William's note,' is mentioned in the Complaint of Scotland (1549), ed. Murray, p. 64. 3220. 'According to the money provided by his friends and his own income.'