art y-fastned to thy perdurable chayer, and tornest the hevene
with a ravisshing [sweigh], and constreinest the sterres to suffren
thy lawe; so that the mone som-tyme shyning with hir [ful hornes],
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meting with alle the bemes of the sonne hir brother, hydeth the
sterres that ben lesse; and somtyme, whan the mone, pale with
hir [derke hornes], approcheth the sonne, leseth hir lightes; and
that the eve-sterre Hesperus, whiche that in the firste tyme of
the night bringeth forth hir colde arysinges, [cometh eft ayein]
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