Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

lo here thy figure.

[4.] Special declaracion of the [assendent].

[Specialis declaracio de ascendente.]

The assendent sothly, as wel in alle nativitez as in questiouns

and elecciouns of tymes, is a thing which that thise astrologiens

gretly observen; wher-fore me semeth convenient, sin that I

speke of the assendent, to make of it special declaracioun. The

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assendent sothly, to take it at the largeste, is thilke degree that

assendeth at any of thise forseide tymes upon the est orisonte;