Endnote 4
Prologue, l. 7. suffisaunt, sufficiently good.
In the best instruments, the Almicanteras, or circles of altitude, were
drawn at distances of one degree only; in less-carefully made instruments,
they were drawn at distances of two degrees. The one given to his
son by Chaucer was one of the latter; see Part I, sect. 18, l. 8.