And one example, though out of the compas of learning, yet not out of the order of good maners, was notable in this Courte, not fullie xxiiij.
Rome, in the compas of those seauen hondred yeares, whan it florished moste.
Avoir le compas dans l’œil = To have a good eye for distances.
But without partialitie (for in this earand I have set my compas to the loadstar of reason), we pronunce it better.
Als mekill grond thai bocht at the first tyde As thai mycht compas with a bullis hyde; 30 Ȝondir cheif castell standing on the bra Into thar langage clepit is Byrsa, And of this deid the name beris witnes ȝit.
And schortly, all durst ymagyn or compas 15 Mastirfull wrang, myscheif, or wykkytnes, Or ony sik consait brocht to effek, Heir evyrmar the charge lyis on thar nek.
I open my compas accordyng to the length of that byas line C.
Then set one foote of the compas in the centre and stretche out the other to the middle pricke of any of the sides, and so drawe a compas, whiche shall touche euery side of the triangle, but shall not passe with out any of them.
Now sette I one fote of the compas in G, and extend the other foote vnto H.
Then sette I one foote of the compasin that centre, and the other foote I extend to one of the angles of the cinkangle, and so draw I a circle about the cinkangle assigned.
Therfore set one foote of the compas in that pricke, and extend the other to the end of the line that toucheth the middle of one side, whiche you liste, and so drawe a circle.
Then sette I one foote of the compas vnremoued in B, and marke with the other foote on eche side C.
Open your compas so wide, that it be somewhat more then the halfe distance of two of those prickes.
Then with your compasse take the length of the halfe diameter, and set one foote of the compas in eche end of the compas, so shall you haue viij.
F, and set the one compas foote in A, and extend thother foote of the compas toward F, makyng this pricke G, from whiche I erect a plumbeline G.
Then sette the foote of the compasse in that point, and stretch forth the other foot, according to the length of halfe one of those lines, and so make a compas in the square quadrate assigned.
I the one foote of the compas as in the centre, and the other foote I do extend vnto one angle of the quadrate, as for example to A, and so make a compas, whiche doth iustly inclose the quadrate, according to the minde of the conclusion.
And that centre is here F, nowe settyng one foote of your compas in F, and the other in C.
Then sette one foote of the compas stedily in eche of those new prickes, and point out two other prickes.
Faire virgin (said the Prince) ye me require 2 A thing without the compas of my wit: For both the lignage and the certain Sire, 4 From which I sprong, from me are hidden yit.
The cause some say is this: A litle while 2 Before that Merlin dyde, he did intend, A brasen wall in compas to compile 4 About Cairmardin, and did it commend Vnto these Sprights, to bring to perfect end.
He was thinking, as he said this, of Mrs Compas and her large family.
It is the past in actual being--Civilisation, like Time, has stood still in the yard of the Compas d'Or.
For some years now I have always approached the Compas d'Or with trembling and foreboding.
On the first morning I pay a visit of reverence and delight to the ancient auberge of the Compas d'Or at No.
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