But and if the line goe crosse the circle, and passe beside the centre, [Sidenote: A cord, or a stringlyne.] then is it called _a corde_, or _a stryng line_, as I said before, and as this exaumple sheweth: where A. is the corde. And the compassed line that aunswereth to it, [Sidenote: An archline] is called _an arche lyne_, [Sidenote: A bowline.] or _a bowe lyne_, whiche here marked with B. and the diameter with C. [Illustration] But and if that part be separate from the rest of the circle (as in this exãple you see) then ar both partes called cãtelles, [Sidenote: A cantle] the one the _greatter cantle_ as E. and the other the _lesser cantle_, as D. And if it be parted iuste by the centre (as you see in F.) [Sidenote: A semyecircle] then is it called a _semicircle_, or _halfe compasse_. [Illustration] Sometimes it happeneth that a cantle is cutte out with two lynes drawen from the centre to the circumference (as G. is) [Sidenote: A nooke cantle] and then maie it be called a _nooke cantle_, and if it be not parted from the reste of the circle (as you see in H.) [Sidenote: A nooke.] then is it called a _nooke_ plainely without any addicion. And the compassed lyne in it is called an _arche lyne_, as the exaumple here doeth shewe. [Illustration: An arche.] Nowe haue you heard as touchyng circles, meetely sufficient instruction, so that it should seme nedeles to speake any more of figures in that kynde, saue that there doeth yet remaine ij. formes of an imperfecte circle, for it is lyke a circle that were brused, and thereby did runne out endelong one waie, whiche forme Geometricians dooe call an [Sidenote: An egge fourme.] _egge forme_, because it doeth represent the figure and shape of an egge duely proportioned (as this figure sheweth) hauyng the one ende greate then the other. [Illustration: An egge forme] [Illustration: A tunne forme.] [Sidenote: A tunne or barrel form] For if it be lyke the figure of a circle pressed in length, and bothe endes lyke bygge, then is it called a _tunne forme_, or _barrell forme_, the right makyng of whiche figures, I wyll declare hereafter in the thirde booke. An other forme there is, whiche you maie call a nutte forme, and is made of one lyne muche lyke an egge forme, saue that it hath a sharpe angle. And it chaunceth sometyme that there is a right line drawen crosse these figures, [Sidenote: An axtre or axe lyne.] and that is called an _axelyne_, or _axtre_. Howe be it properly that line that is called an _axtre_, whiche gooeth throughe the myddell of a Globe, for as a diameter is in a circle, so is an axe lyne or axtre in a Globe, that lyne that goeth from side to syde, and passeth by the middell of it. And the two poyntes that suche a lyne maketh in the vtter bounde or platte of the globe, are named _polis_, w^{ch} you may call aptly in englysh, _tourne pointes_: of whiche I do more largely intreate, in the booke that I haue written of the vse of the globe. [Illustration]