Two dyaloges wrytten in laten by the famous clerke, D.Erasm[us] of Roterodame, one called Polyphemus or the gospeller, the other dysposyng of thynges and names, translated in to Englyshe by Edmonde Becke. And prynted at Cantorbury in saynt Paules paryshe by Ioh[a]n Mychell

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Title: Two dyaloges wrytten in laten by the famous clerke, D.Erasm[us] of Roterodame, one called Polyphemus or the gospeller, the other dysposyng of thynges and names, translated in to Englyshe by Edmonde Becke. And prynted at Cantorbury in saynt Paules paryshe by Ioh[a]n Mychell
Author: Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.
Publication: Prynted at Cantorbury :: In saynt Paules paryshe by Ioh[a]n Mychell,; [1550?]
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Subject terms: Dialogues, English -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item: "Two dyaloges wrytten in laten by the famous clerke, D.Erasm[us] of Roterodame, one called Polyphemus or the gospeller, the other dysposyng of thynges and names, translated in to Englyshe by Edmonde Becke. And prynted at Cantorbury in saynt Paules paryshe by Ioh[a]n Mychell." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00336.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.

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A declaracion of the names.

POliphemus sygnifieth, valyant or noble, and in an other sygnifi¦cacion, talcatyfe or clybbe of tong. The name of a Gyant called Cyclops, ha∣uynge but one eye in his forhed, of a huge stature and a myghtie {per}sonage. And is aplyed here to sygnifie a great freke or a lubber, as this Poliphemus was, whiche beynge a man of warre or a courtyer, had a newe testament in his hande, and loked buselie for some sentence or text of scrypture and that Cannius his companyō espyed and sayd to hī as fo∣loweth.