Is non so litel welle spring,
Which ther ne takth his beginnyng,
And lich a man that haleth breth[985]
Be weie of kinde, so it geth
Out of the See and in ayein,
The water, as the bokes sein. 600
Nota hic secundum philosophum de quinto Elemento, quod omnia sub celo creata infra suum ambitum continet, cui nomen Orbis specialiter appropriatum est.
Of Elementz the propretes
Hou that they stonden be degres,
As I have told, nou myht thou hiere,