nis nat rather for thise thinges to ben wondred up-on, than for
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the resoun by which it is governed. But the shyning of thy
forme, that is to seyn, the beautee of thy body, how swiftly passinge
is it, and how transitorie; certes, it is more flittinge than the
mutabilitee of flowers of the [somer-sesoun]. For so [Aristotle]
telleth, that yif that men hadden eyen of a beest that highte
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lynx, so that the lokinge of folk mighte percen thorugh the
thinges that with-stonden it, who-so loked thanne in the entrailes