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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