Metre V.

Si quis Arcturi sidera nescit.

Who-so that ne knowe nat the [sterres of Arcture], y-torned neigh

to the soverein contree or point, that is to seyn, y-torned neigh to

the soverein pool of the firmament, and wot nat why [the sterre]

Bootes passeth or gadereth his weynes, and drencheth his late

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flambes in the see, and why that Bootes the sterre unfoldeth his

over-swifte arysinges, thanne shal he wondren of the lawe of the

heye eyr.