Was in the lengthe the same quantite,
That was the body erecte that caused it."
But the afternoon observation is thus related:
"By that the Manciple had his tale endid,
The sonne fro the southe line is descendid
So lowe that it nas nought to my sight,
Degrees nyne and twenty as in hight.
Ten on the clokke it was as I gesse,
For eleven foote, or litil more or lesse,
My schadow was at thilk time of the yere,