chariet bringeth forth the rosene day; that the mone hath commaundement

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over the nightes, which nightes Hesperus the eve-sterre

[hath brought]; that the see, [greedy to flowen], constreyneth

with a certein [ende] hise flodes, so that it is nat leveful to strecche

hise brode [termes or boundes] up-on the erthes, that is to seyn, to

covere al the erthe:—al this acordaunce of thinges is bounden with

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[Love], that governeth erthe and see, and hath also commaundements

to the hevenes. And yif this Love [slakede] the brydeles,