lawes of the heye thonderer, that is to seyn, of god, loke thou and
bihold the heightes of the soverein hevene. There kepen the
sterres, by rightful alliaunce of thinges, hir olde pees. The sonne,
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y-moeved by his rody fyr, ne distorbeth nat the colde [cercle] of
the mone. [Ne the sterre] y-cleped "the Bere," that enclyneth his
ravisshinge courses abouten the soverein heighte of the worlde, ne
the same sterre Ursa nis never-mo wasshen in the depe westrene
see, ne coveiteth nat to deyen his flaumbes in the see of the occian,
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