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

evene of the degree of the longitude, and sette the point of F

endlang in my label the space of 3 degrees of the latitude fro the

zodiak, this is to seyn, southward fro the ecliptik, toward the

bordure; and turned my riet til the prikke of F sat up-on the

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orisonte; thanne saw I wel that the body of Iuppiter, in his

latitude of 3 degrees meridional, ascended with 14 degrees of Pisces

in horoscopo. And in this maner maistow wirke with any latitude

meridional, as I first seide, save in Capricorne. And yif thou wolt

pleye this craft with the arysing of the mone, loke thou rekne wel