[67] Parson’s Prologue, I. 1-9. See [Appendix IV].
[68] Nonne Preestes Tale, B. 4381-89. Chaucer has already indicated the date as May 3 by saying that March is complete and thirty-two days have passed besides. (l. 4379). That the sun would on May 3 have passed the 21st degree of Aries can be verified by reference to Fig. 1 in Skeat’s Introduction to the Astrolabe. A straight edge ing May 3 would cross the circle of the zodiacal signs at a point a little past the 21st degree of Aries.
[69] Ascension means ‘ascending degree.’
[70] Nonne Preestes Tale, B. 4043-4048.
[71] The sun reaches his farthest point to the south at noon when on the meridian. See [Appendix I].
[72] Prologue, 197.
[73] Ibid. 60-61.
[74] Marchantes Tale, E. 1795-7.
[75] Frankeleyns Tale, F. 1016-17.