rs > [age]
Nestor > (See 209.48:4)
to > [compared with]

2 Nor yet Methuselah, though longest lived;

Methuselah > (Who lived 969 years according to _Gen._ 5.27)

3 For he remembered both their infancies:
4 No wonder then, if he were deprived
5 Of native strength now, that he them survived.

native > natural; innate

6 His chamber all was hung about with rolls,
7 And old records from ancient times derived,
8 Some made in books, some in long parchment scrolls,
9 That were all worm-eaten, and full of canker holes.

209.58

Amidst them all he in a chaire was set,
2 Tossing and turning them withouten end;
But for he was vnhable them to fet,
4 A litle boy did on him still attend,
To reach, when euer he for ought did send;
6 And oft when things were lost, or laid amis,
That boy them sought, and vnto him did lend.
8 Therefore he _Anamnestes_ cleped is,
And that old man _Eumnestes_, by their propertis.

1 Amidst them all he in a chair was set,

set > set; seated

2 Tossing and turning them without end;
3 But for he was unable them to fetch,

for > [in that]

4 A little boy did on him still attend,

still > continuously

5 To reach, whenever he for aught did send;
6 And oft when things were lost, or laid amiss,
7 That boy them sought, and to him did lend.

lend > give

8 Therefore he Anamnestes cleped is,

Anamnestes > "Reminder" (Greek)
cleped > called

9 And that old man Eumnestes, by their properties.

Eumnestes > "Good Memory" (Greek)
properties > attributes, qualities

209.59

The knights there entring, did him reuerence dew
2 And wondred at his endlesse exercise,
Then as they gan his Librarie to vew,
4 And antique Registers for to auise,
There chaunced to the Princes hand to rize,
6 An auncient booke, hight _Briton moniments_,
That of this lands first conquest did deuize,
8 And old diuision into Regiments,
Till it reduced was to one mans gouernments.

1 The knights, there entering, did him reverence due
2 And wondered at his endless exercise,

wondered > marvelled

3 Then as they began his library to view,
4 And antique registers to advise,

advise > look at

5 There chanced to the prince's hand to rise
6 An ancient book, hight _Briton Moniments_,

hight > called, entitled
Moniments > Monuments: records, documents

7 That of this land's firs