My noodle

    I believe that annotation made Ascham’s text more accessible to twenty-first-century readers because it really breaks things down for you, taking notes on words you don’t know, pointing out imagery as well as very many things in detail that make it very understandable.

•  see-appeal to sense
• very long first sentence
• trodden afore-gone that way before
•  wayfaring men-men who wonder
• The fields on both sides were plain-visual aid
•  sun shone brigh and clear-visual
•  wind whistling aloft-sense appeal
• crusted-hardened
• ran round about in a compass-good description
• saw winds-appealing to sense
•  [wind]had been two highways-metaphor
• hear wind blow-sense appeal