Paraventure in thilke large book 190 Which that men clepe the heven, y-writen was With sterres, whan that he his birthe took, That he for love shulde han his deeth, allas!
But, lordes, wol ye maken assurance, As I shal seyn, assenting to my lore, And I shall make us sauf for evermore?
And when assembled was this folk in-fere, (230) She sette hir doun, and sayde as ye shal here.
Avyseth yow and putte me out of blame; 3185 And eek men shal nat make ernest of game.
Now with his love, now in his colde grave (1920) Allone, with-outen any companye.
Housbondes been alle gode, and han ben yore, That knowen wyves, I dar say yow no more.
A litel ire is in his herte y-laft, He gan to grucche and blamed it a lyte.
Yit ever among, sothly to seyn, I suffre noye and moche peyn.
By suffraunce, and [by] wordis softe, A man may overcomen ofte Him that aforn he hadde in drede, 3465 In bookis sothlyas I rede.
Of their names I wold nothing enquere 505 Further than suche as we wold sewe unto, Sauf oo lady, which was the chauncellere, Attemperaunce; sothly her name was so.
And where ye say, I ought you well cheryse, And of your gref the remedy devyse, I know not why: I nam acqueinted well 895 With you, ne wot not sothly where ye dwell.
But sothly the Ecliptik Lyne of thy zodiak is the outtereste bordure of thy zodiak, ther the degrees ben marked.
And the seconde cause is this, that sothly me semeth betre to wryten un-to a child twyes a good sentence, than he for-gete it ones.
And whan that 5 this is don, considere the altitudes of hem bothe; for sothly the difference of thilke altitudes is the declinacion of thilke degree fro the equinoxial.
And in this manere they 15 chaunge nat her meridian, but sothly they chaungen her almikanteras; for the enhausing of the pool and the distance of the sonne.
But sothly the latitudes of planetes ben comunly rekned fro the ecliptik, bi-cause that non of hem declineth but fewe degrees out fro the brede of the zodiak.
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