roundnesse of the grete ayr; and it seeth the cloudes behinde his
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bak; and passeth the heighte of the region of the [fyr], that
eschaufeth by the swifte moevinge of the firmament, til that he
areyseth him in-to the houses that beren the sterres, and ioyneth
his weyes with the sonne Phebus, and felawshipeth the wey of
the olde colde [Saturnus]; [and he y-maked] a knight of the clere
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sterre; that is to seyn, that the thought is maked goddes knight by
the sekinge of trouthe to comen to the verray knowleche of god.