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

thanne [sette I the point of F upward] in the same signe, bycause

that the latitude was north, up-on the latitude of Venus, that is to

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seyn, in the 6 degree fro the heved of Capricorne; and thus have

I 2 degrees by-twixe my two prikkes. Than leide I doun softely

my compas, and sette the degree of the longitude up-on the

orisonte; tho tok I and wexede my label in maner of a peyre

tables to resceyve distinctly the prikkes of my compas. Tho tok

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I this forseide label, and leide it fix over the degree of my