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