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

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equinoxial lyne, and her orisonte passing by the poles of this

worlde, thilke folke han this right cercle and the right orisonte;

and evere-mo the arch of the day and the arch of the night is ther

y-like long, and the sonne twyes every yeer passinge thorow the

senith of her heved; and two someres and two winteres in a yeer

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han this forseide poeple. And the almikanteras in her Astrolabies

ben streighte as a lyne, so as sheweth in [this figure]. The utilite to

knowe the [assenciouns in the righte cercle] is this: truste wel that