And eek, yif that he ne knowe nat why that the hornes of [the fulle]
[mone] wexen pale and [infect] by the boundes of the derke night;
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and how the mone, derk and [confuse], discovereth the sterres that
she hadde y-covered by hir clere visage. [The comune errour]
moeveth folk, and maketh wery hir basins of bras by [thikke]
[strokes]; that is to seyn, that ther is a maner of poeple that highte
Coribantes, that wenen that, whan the mone is in the eclipse, that it
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be enchaunted; and therfore, for to rescowe the mone, they beten hir