Ther mai men welle stremes finde:
So proveth it be weie of kinde
The water heyher than the lond.
Nota de Aere, quod est tercium elementum.
And over this nou understond,
Air is the thridde of elementz,
Of whos kinde his aspirementz
Takth every lifissh creature,[945]
The which schal upon erthe endure:
For as the fissh, if it be dreie,