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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orisonte, and waite eft-sones wher as thyn almury toucheth the

bordure, and set ther a-nother prikke. Rikne thanne the noumbre

of degrees in the bordure by-twixe bothe prikkes, and tak ther the

assencioun of the signe in the embelif cercle. And understond

wel, that alle signes in thy zodiak, fro the heved of Aries unto the

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ende of Virgo, ben cleped signes of the north fro the equinoxial;

and these signes arysen by-twixe the verrey est and the verrey

north in oure orisonte generaly for evere. And alle signes fro the