Now be the daies, now the nyhtes,[195]

So stant ther nothing al upryhtes, 940

Now it is lyht, now it is derk;

And thus stant al the worldes werk

After the disposicioun

Of man and his condicioun.

Forthi Gregoire in his Moral

Seith that a man in special[196]

The lasse world is properly:

And that he proeveth redely;