Hier begynneth the booke callyd the Myrrour of the worlde ...

¶Here after bygynneth the seconde partye of this present book. and declareth how therthe is deuyded and what partie she is enhabyted / Capitulo primo.

SYth that the erthe is so lytyl as ye haue herd here to fore deuysed lytyl maye we preyse the goodes therof vnto the regard of heuen. lasse than men do donge a∣yenst fin gold. or ayenst precyous stones / how wel that in thende that one and that other shal be of no walewe. but for somoche as we beyng in this world vs semeth that the erthe is moche grete we haue declared to you as wel the roūdenesse as the gretenes to our power & that shortly. syth we haue vnderstande how the erthe is rounde on alle partes as an apple. Neuertheles it is not enhabyted in all parties whiche is well knowen. of no people of the world / And it is not enhabyted but in one quarter only lyke as the philo∣sophers haue enserched / whiche put for to knowe it grete trauayll & estudye and therfore we shal deuyse it al abou¦te in foure parties / of whiche ye may take ensample by an apple / whiche shal be parted by the myddle in foure parties right of lengthe & of brede by the core / and pare a quarter. & stratche the parell for to se & vnderstōde the facion in playn erthe or in your hande /

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ANd in y^e ende of this lyne / Lyke as she gooth right by lyne / We may see a cyte whi¦che is callyd Aron it is sette in y^e myd∣dle of y^e world. and was made all roūde ther was foūdē first astronomye by gre∣te studye / by grete maistrye / & by grete dylygēce / This pla∣ce Aaron is named y^e right mydday as she that is sette in y^e myddle of y^e world that other heed of this lyne. whiche gooth right toward the lyfte syde. is cal∣lyd septentrion that is to saye north and taketh his name

of the vij sterres / and torneth toward another sterre that ledeth the maronners by the see / In that other lyne that is y^e myddle / whiche the south cutteth in the ende toward the eest as the auctours saye is paradis terrestre. where adam was in somtyme This place is callyd oryent that is to saye eest For fro thens cometh the sonne whiche maketh the day a∣boute y^e world. And that other heed is callyd occydent that is to saye weste. For there the day faylleth and wexith der¦ke whan the sonne goth doun there. thus and by this reson

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be nam••d the foure parties of the world of whiche the first cōteineth the eest. The secon¦de the west The therde the south. And the fourthe the north. & this that we ens••ygne you ye may see by this figure to fore on that other syde

THyse foure partyes that I haue declared to yow. whiche ben sette in a quarter of alle the erthe of the world ought to haue a rounde fourme / For rayson and nature gyue that alle the worlde be rounde / ¶And therfore vnderstande ye of this quarter as it were alle rounde ¶ Now make we thenne of this quarter

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a cercle that is al round & al h••ol / & late vs sette in y^e middle of th∣is lyne y^t she¦weth y^e eest & y^e west for to sette the parti¦es in her rig∣ht as this pre¦sēte figure y^t here is repre∣sēteth sheweth to you plainli

AFter late eche partye be torned toward his name in therthe / of whiche eche shal be the fourth parte / & this

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present fygu∣re is enseyg∣nement and demonstraūce certayne and trewe wyth∣out ony vary¦acyon ne dou¦btaunce.