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

Mercurie entring under my west orisonte at eve; and next him

succedeth the Mone; and so forth by ordre, planete after

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planete, in houre after houre, al the night longe til the sonne

aryse. Now ryseth the sonne that Sonday by the morwe; and

the nadir of the sonne, up-on the west orizonte, sheweth me the

entring of the houre of the forseide sonne. And in this maner

succedeth planete under planete, fro Saturne un-to the Mone,

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and fro the Mone up a-gayn to Saturne, houre after houre