Chaucer mentions the irregularity of planetary movements in Boethius also when he says: "and whiche sterre in hevene useth wandering recourses, y-flit by dyverse speres.
Footnote 88-4: Sir John Paston, if this letter be to the younger brother.
I knowe dyversehave lost mony er they cowde gete ther dywtes owte off the Staple.
Also ye shall send me in all hast all the redi money that ye can make, and asse mone of my men asse can com well horsyd; and that they cum in dyverse parcellys.
A fewe othre dyverse herbes with her vertues wich be not yfound in the bokes of Macer.
Here men may se the vertu of dyverse herbes, and what thei be, and whiche ben hoote and which ben colde.
And understonde wel, that homicyde, that is manslaughtre, is in dyverse wyse.
And please youre maistir ship to wete that my maistresse hathe dyverse tymes spokyn to me to helpe to purvey a merchaunt for sum of youre malt; but in good feyth I can gete no man that wyll geve at the most more than xxijd.
And inasmoche as myn husbond, whos soule God assoile, dyverse tymes, and specialy among other the day of the moneth, rehersed to me that the lyvelod whiche he had assigned to his ij.
Eschequyer for hym a yens the Kyng, wher in was crafti labour and cloos to the seid spede, and laked no dylygence, for the matter was defused and dubble intendementz after dyverse mennys appynyons.
Item, forasmyche as it is seyd that dyverse personis of dyverse desentes pretende .
And also sithen the deth of the sayd victorious Kyng, Radeclyff being Seneschall of Guyen, hath brought by hys Labour in Knyghthood to hys Soveraign Lord’s obeysance within the Duchie of Guyen many dyverse Cities, Towns and Fortresses.
And sche sayd sche wyst wele there was wrytyng therof inow, and sche hath wrytyng therof hw Syr Robert of Mawthby, and Sir Jon, and my grawnsyre, and dyverse other of myn awncesterys payd it, and seyd nevyre nay therto.
Dyverse men of my freendis avyse me to entre in to the maner of Gresham by force of my writte of restitution, whiche I wole not do by cause the maner is so decayed by the Lord Moleyns occupacion, that where it was worth to me l.
But it is fulle long, sithe that ony man durste neyhe to the tour; for it is alle deserte and fulle of dragouns and grete serpentes, and fulle of dyverse venymouse bestes alle abouten.
In that abbeye is a gret gardyn and a fair, where ben many trees of dyverse manere of frutes: and in this gardyn, is a lytille hille, fulle of delectable trees.
Of folk of dyverse schap and merveylously disfigured: And of the Monkes, that zeven hire releef to Babewynes, Apes and Marmesettes and to other Bestes.
And of gold and sylver, that men beren in his contree, he makethe cylours, pyleres and paumentes in his palays, and other dyverse thinges, what him lykethe.
In that ile of Cycile there ys a maner of a gardyn, in the whiche ben many dyverse frutes.
And many other yles ben there about; where ther ben many of dyverse folk: of the whiche it were to longe to speke of alle.
Also men gon thorghe Ynde be manydyverse contrees, to the grete see occean.
For in tho contrees bezonden, ben manydyverse contrees, and many grete kyngdomes; that ben departed be the 4 flodes, that comen from Paradys terrestre.
In Ynde ben fulle manye dyverse contrees: and it is cleped Ynde, for a flom, that rennethe thorghe out the contree, that is clept Ynde.
And sum men clepen that book Meshaf: and sum men clepen it Harme, aftre the dyverse langages of the contree.
By dyverse [letteris], I have requyred licence to have visited the North pairtis of England; but as yitt I have ressaved no favorabill answer.
And eek this man was wont to telle the dyverse causes of nature that weren y-hidde.
By this resoun thanne ther comen many maner knowinges to dyverse and differinge substaunces.
Wenest thou eek that it be a fair 60 thing to shyne withdyverse clothinge?
In the lond of Prestre John, ben manye dyverse thinges and many precious stones, so gret and so large, that men maken of hem vesselle: as plateres, dissches and cuppes.
Aftre that, is the kyngdom of George, that begynnethe toward the est; to the gret mountayne, that is clept Abzor; where that duellen many dyverse folk of dyverse naciouns.
And many other dyverse bestes ben in tho contrees, and elle where there abouten: and manye dyverse briddes also; of the whiche, it were to longe for to telle zou: and therefore I passe over at this tyme.
In the whiche contree ben many kyngdomes and many dyverse folk.
And there weren in that place many a dyverse thinges and many dyverse stories: and of bestes and of bryddes, that songen fulle delectabely; and meveden be craft, that it semede that thei weren quyke.
Then I clymbed to the top of the hill but I could see lytell but dyverse men riding here and there.
And thus wenten many dyverse lusty Bacheleres for to sle grete Lords, in dyverse Countrees, that weren his enemyes, and maden hemself to ben slayn in hope to have that Paradys.
And there weren in that place many dyverse thinges, and many dyverse stories: and of bestes and of bryddes that songen fulle delectabely, and moveden be craft that it semede that thei weren quyke.
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