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

a-non right by som maner sterre fix which that thou

knowest; and for-get nat the altitude of the firste sterre, ne thyn

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assendent. And whan that this is don, espye diligently whan this

same firste sterre passeth any-thing the south westward, and hath

him a-non right in the same noumbre of altitude on the west side

of this lyne meridional as he was caught on the est side; and tak

a newe assendent a-non right by som maner sterre fixe which that

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thou knowest; and for-get nat this secounde assendent. And