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Poliphemus sygnifieth, valyant or noble, and in an other sygnifi cacion, talcatyfe or clybbe of tong. The name of a Gyant called Cyclops, hauynge but one eye in his forhed, of a huge stature and a myghtie psonage. 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

companyõ espyed and

sayd to hî as

foloweth