Also in Lenten this yere schewed in the west in the sky a sterre called Stalla Comata, whiche endured v wokes.
Agnoscat omne seculum, A bryzth sterre iij kyngs made come, A solis ortus cardine, So myzthi a lord ys non as he, Veni Redemptur omniu gentium.
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.
Than tolde he him, in certeyn yeres space, That every sterre shulde come into his place Ther hit was first; and al shulde out of minde That in this worlde is don of al mankinde.
The sterres shynen more agreably whan the wind 5 Nothus leteth his ploungy blastes; and after that Lucifer the day-sterre hath chased awey the derke night, the day the fairere ledeth the rosene hors of the sonne.
This is to seyn, whan the sonne is risen, the dey-sterre wexeth pale, and leseth hir light for the grete brightnesse of the 5 sonne.
And wayte a-nother sterre that sit lyne-right under A, and under the pol, and clepe that sterre F.
Set the centre of the sterre up-on the est orisonte, and loke what degree of any signe that sit up-on the same orisonte at that same tyme.
And understond wel, that with that same degree aryseth that same sterre; and this merveyllous arysing with a strange degree in another signe is by-cause that the latitude of the 5 sterre fix is either north or south fro the equinoxial.
In some winters night, whan the firmament is clere and thikke-sterred, waite a tyme til that any sterre fix sit lyne-right perpendiculer over the pol artik, and clepe that sterre A.
Or elles, yif thee lest, take the heyest altitude fro the equinoxial of any sterre fix that thou knowest, and tak his 40 nethere elongacioun lengthing fro the same equinoxial lyne, and wirke in the maner forseid.
Awaite wel thanne whan that thy sterre fix is in the same altitude that she was whan thou toke hir firste altitude; and tak than eftsones the altitude of the forseide planete, and note it wel.
And by this manere 10 of wyrking maistow see how longe that any sterre fix dwelleth above the erthe, fro tyme that he ryseth til he go to reste.
Tak any sterre fixe that nevere dissendeth under the orisonte in thilke regioun, and considere his heyest altitude and his lowest altitude fro the orisonte; and make a nombre of bothe thise altitudes.
His herbe is Aristologie, Which folweth his Astronomie: The Ston which that thissterre alloweth, Is Sardis, which unto him boweth.
The sefnthe sterre in special Of this science is Arial, Which sondri nature underfongeth.
Bot nou the laste sterre of alle The tail of Scorpio men calle, Which to Mercurie and to Satorne Be weie of kinde mot retorne After the preparacion Of due constellacion.
Thus have I seid hou thei be founded, Of everysterre in special, Which hath his herbe and Ston withal, As Hermes in his bokes olde Witnesse berth of that I tolde.
The sexte suiende after this Be name Canis minor is; The which sterre is Mercurial Be weie of kinde, and forth withal, As it is writen in the carte, Complexion he takth of Marte.
And Canis maior in his like The fifte sterre is of Magique, The whos kinde is venerien, As seith this Astronomien.
Thei were his children bothe tuo, Thurgh hem he tok his name so, 910 Ther was non other cause why: And yit a Sterre upon the Sky He hath unto his name applied, In which that he is signified.
He seith, "Or fortune is aweie And every sterre hath lost his wone, Or elles of myn oghne Sone I schal be slain, I mai noght fle.
The tenthe sterre is Almareth, Which upon lif and upon deth Thurgh kinde of Jupiter and Mart He doth what longeth to his part.
Bot yit a sterre upon the hevene He hath of the planetes sevene.
The nynthe sterre faire and wel Be name is hote Alaezel, 1380 Which takth his propre kinde thus Bothe of Mercurie and of Venus.
And in this roche he sette him, whan the Jewes wolde a stoned him; and a sterre cam doun, and zaf him light.
And right as the schip men taken here avys here, and governe hem be the lode sterre, right so don schip men bezonde the parties, be the sterre of the southe, the whiche sterre apperethe not to us.
After goynge be see and be londe, toward this contree, of that I have spoke, and to other yles and londes bezonde that contree, I have founden the sterre Antartyk of 33 degrees of heghte, and mo mynutes.
In the same weye, half myle fro Jerusalem, appered the sterre to the 3 kynges.
Aftre this, I have gon toward the parties meridionales, that is toward the southe: and I have founden, that in Lybye, men seen first the sterre Antartyk.
For I have ben toward the parties of Braban, and beholden the astrolabre, that the sterre that is clept the Transmontayne, is 53 degrees highe.
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