basins with thikke strokes.

Ne no man ne wondreth whan the blastes of the wind Chorus

beten the strondes of the see [by quakinge flodes]; ne no man ne

wondreth whan the weighte of the snowe, y-harded by the colde,

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is resolved by the brenninge hete of Phebus the sonne; for heer

seen men redely the causes.

But the causes y-hid, that is to seyn, in hevene, troublen the

brestes of men; the moevable poeple is astoned of [alle thinges]

that comen selde and sodeinly in our age. But yif the [troubly]