Reading the Small Iliad Through This Glass

With this [perspicill] Ile read a leafe of that small Iliade‥as plainly Twelue long miles off, as you see Pauls from Highgate.

Wið thise [perspicill] Ic ræd a leaf of þæt smæl Iliade‥þæt swyðe clæne Twelf lang milas of, swa þeos eċe Pauls from Highgate gesihð.