hir used cours, and is pale by the morwe at the rysing of the
sonne, and is thanne cleped Lucifer. Thou [restreinest] the day
by shorter dwelling, in the tyme of colde winter that maketh
the leves to falle. Thou dividest the [swifte tydes] of the night,
whan the hote somer is comen. Thy might atempreth the
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variaunts sesons of the yere; so that Zephirus the deboneir
wind bringeth ayein, in the first somer sesoun, the leves that
the wind that highte Boreas hath reft awey in autumpne, that
is to seyn, in the laste ende of somer; and the sedes that the