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,