Which was an Astronomien

And ek a gret Magicien,

And undertake hath thilke emprise

To Alisandre in his aprise 1300

As of Magique naturel

To knowe, enformeth him somdel

Of certein sterres what thei mene;

Of whiche, he seith, ther ben fiftene,

P. iii. 129

And sondrily to everich on