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

waite a tyme til that any sterre fix sit lyne-right perpendiculer

over the pol artik, and [clepe that sterre A]. And

wayte a-nother sterre that sit lyne-right under A, and under the

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pol, and clepe that sterre F. And understond wel, that F is nat

considered but only to declare that A sit evene overe the pool.

Tak thanne a-non right the altitude of A from the orisonte, and

forget it nat. Lat A and F go farwel til agayns the dawening a

gret whyle; and come thanne agayn, and abyd til that A is evene

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