To speke upon Astronomie,

As it is write in the clergie,

To telle hou the planetes fare,

Som part I thenke to declare,

Mi Sone, unto thin Audience.

Astronomie is the science 670

Of wisdom and of hih connynge,

Which makth a man have knowlechinge[990]

Of Sterres in the firmament,

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