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So on p. 12 of another tract (D) in the same MS., we find—

'Aries calidum & sucum; bonum.

Nill capiti noceas, Aries cum luna refulget,

De vena minuas & balnea tutius intres,

Non tangas Aures, nec barbam radere debes.'

Each of the signs is described in similar triplets, from the grammar of which I conclude that Aries is here put for in Ariete, in the first hexameter.

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1385 is also the date of the latest allusion in the Canterbury Tales; see note to B 3589.

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