Thus passyth he the tyme both nyght and day,
Sumtyme with sadnes, sumtyme with play;
Honora medicum; propter necessitatem creavit eum altissimus, &c. Superiores constellationes influunt in corpora subjecta et disposita, &c. Nota.
Though Galiene[1834] and Dioscorides,[1835]
With Ipocras,[1836] and mayster Auycen,
By there phesik doth[1837] many a man ease,
And though Albumasar can thé enforme and ken
What constellacions ar good or bad for men,
Yet whan the rayne rayneth and the gose wynkith, 1430
Lytill wotith the goslyng what the gose thynkith;