al-thogh he see othre sterres y-plounged in the see. And [Hesperus]
the sterre bodeth and telleth alwey the late nightes; and [Lucifer]
the sterre bringeth ayein the clere day.
[And thus] maketh Love entrechaungeable the perdurable courses;
and thus is discordable bataile y-put out of the contree of the
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sterres. This acordaunce atempreth by evenelyk maneres the
elements, that the moiste thinges, stryvinge with the drye thinges,
yeven place by stoundes; and the colde thinges ioynen hem by
feyth to the hote thinges; and that the lighte fyr aryseth in-to