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

so be that thee semeth to long a taryinge, to abyde til that the

sonne be in the hevedes of Aries or of Libra, thanne waite whan

the sonne is in any other degree of the zodiak, and considere the

degree of his declinacion fro the equinoxial lyne; and yif it so be

that the sonnes declinacion be northward fro the equinoxial, abate

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thanne fro the sonnes altitude at noon the nombre of his declinacion,

and thanne hastow the heyghte of the hevedes of Aries

and Libra. As thus: my sonne is, par aventure, in the firste

degre of Leoun, 58 degrees and 10 minutes of heyghte at noon