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

lok how many houres thilke coniunccion is fro the midday of the

day precedent, as sheweth by the canoun of thy kalender. Rikne

thanne thilke nombre of houres in the bordure of thyn Astrolabie,

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as thou art wont to do in knowing of the houres of the day or of

the night; and ley thy label over the degree of the sonne; and

thanne wol the point of thy label sitte up-on the hour of the coniunccion.

Loke thanne in which azimut the degree of thy sonne

sitteth, and in that partie of the firmament is the coniunccioun.

And for the more declaracioun, lo here thy figure.