To telle of the planetes sevene,

Hou that thei stonde upon the hevene

And in what point that thei ben inne,

Tak hiede, for I wol beginne,

So as the Philosophre tauhte[994]

To Alisandre and it betauhte,

Wherof that he was fulli tawht

Of wisdom, which was him betawht. 720

Benethe alle othre stant the Mone,

[The Planets.]