¶
Hier
begynneth
the
booke
callyd
the
Myrrour
of
the
worlde
.
And
treateth
first
of
the
power
and
puyssaunce
of
god
/
Capitulo
primo
.
WE
ought
to
knowe
that
whan
our
lorde
god
made
the
worlde
And
that
he
had
made
alle
thynges
of
nought
/
he
had
no
nede
of
it
.
For
as
moche
had
he
byfore
/
as
he
had
afterward
certainly
god
was
to fore
.
And
shal
be
incessantly
after
wythout
ende
/
and
wythout
begynnyng
/
¶
Thenne
he
shal
nothyng
amende
ne
be
better
For
hym
faylled
neuer
ony
thynge
he
seeth
all
hereth
all
knoweth
alle
/
And
holdeth
alle
thynge
in
his
honde
.
He
had
neuer
hunger
.
ne
thurste
.
ne
tyme
/
ne
daye
/
ne
hour
/
but
abydeth
contynuelly
in
alle
goode
.
For
to
hym
ne
aperteyneth
soone
ne
late
/
And
of
alle
them
that
euer
were
/
that
ben
/
and
shal
be
haue
alway
ben
and
shal
be
to
fore
his
eyen
as
well
the
ferre
as
the
nyghe
/
And
the
euyll
as
the
goode
he
sawe
as
wel
the
world
er
it
was
made
and
fourmed
as
he
doth
now
at
this
daye
/
¶
And
yf
he
had
neuer
made
the
worlde
/
as
moche
had
he
ben
thenne
worth
.
and
of
as
grete
valewe
as
he
euer
myght
haue
be
.
¶
For
other
wyse
he
myght
not
be
god
.
Yf
he
knewe
not
sawe
and
herde
alle
that
myght
be
.
And
yf
he
were
not
soo
he
sholde
be
lackyng
and
not
myghty
of
euery
thynge
.
¶
And
of
so
moche
he
was
and
shold
be
a
mortal
man
/
but
his
nature
was
not
suche
/
For
he
is
god
entierly
and
hooll
wythout
begynnyng
and
wythout
ende
/
Nothyng
is
to
hym
newe
ne
olde
/
Alle
wee
l
and
goode
thyngis
ben
his
by
right
.
And
by
nature
goon
.
and
retourne
ageyn
to
hym
.
For
fro
hym
alle
thynges
procede
and
meue
.
And
retornyng
to
hym
in
holdyng
the
right
waye
/
He
retcheth
neuer
of
ony
harme
.
For
his
bounte
is
alle
pure
/
clene
hool
/
and
clere
wythout
ony
espece
of
euyll
/
Certes
alle
euyll
is
ben
to
hym
contraryes
/
And
therfor
it
is
pure
necessite
that
they
wythdrawe
them
vnder
hym
&
fro
all
his
goodnes
for
it
is
/
nothyng
but
donge
and
ordure
/
whiche
must
nedes
d●scende
in
to
the
deppest
/
And
the
good
thyngis
must
nedes
goo
vpward
to
fore
the
souerayn
creatour
whiche
is
clere
net
/
and
pure
.
And
the
synnes
whiche
ben
obscure
.
horryble
and
derke
aboue
alle
other
thyng
seuen
the
goode
whiche
is
aboute
god
and
auale
and
goo
doun
/
For
so
behoueth
it
to
be
by
rayson
and
nature
/
Alle
in
lyke
wyse
as
we
see
the
ordure
of
the
wyn
that
is
put
in
the
vessell
.
and
the
●oule
departeth
fro
the
clere
/
In
suche
wyse
as
the
good
and
clere
abydeth
aboue
/
¶
And
the
lye
whiche
is
th
ordure
abydeth
byneth
in
the
bottom
as
infecte
and
not
goode
/
And
the
good
wyn
that
is
aboue
abydeth
alwaye
clere
and
fyn
/
¶
And
that
whiche
is
not
good
that
is
benethe
in
the
bottom
abydeth
alway
obscure
/
fowle
.
and
black
/
And
so
moche
the
more
as
the
wyn
is
good
and
more
clere
/
so
moche
more
reteyneth
the
lye
more
of
fylthe
and
obscure
/
thus
is
it
of
the
good
and
euyll
/
For
the
euyll
muste
descende
in
to
places
derke
and
horryble
/
and
full
of
all
sorow
and
bitternesse
/
¶
And
so
moche
more
as
the
good
shyneth
to
fore
god
and
the
more
it
Ioyeth
/
so
moche
the
more
sorowe
and
derkenesse
is
in
helle
.
where
it
is
contynuell
and
shal
be
as
longe
as
god
shal
be
in
heuen
/
Where
as
god
hath
alle
goodnesse
to
fore
hym
and
alleway
shal
haue
wythout
payne
.
wythout
trauayll
/
and
wythout
grief
or
Ennoye
he
hath
alle
/
and
alle
he
enlumyneth
wythout
ony
defaulte
and
wythout
ony
terme
/
God
may
make
alle
thyng
.
and
alle
deffete
or
vnmake
wythout
changyng
hym self
in
ony
thyng
that
may
be
/
For
he
may
alle
and
conceyueth
alle
.
¶
Ther
is
nothyng
that
may
hurte
hym
/
he
is
establed
wythout
ony
meuyng
.
And
alle
meuynges
m●ue
of
hym
/
An
hondred
thousand
yere
mounte
not
to
hym
so
moche
as
the
thousand
parte
of
one
onely
houre
of
thys
world
.
ne
to
alle
them
that
be
in
heuen
/
of
whiche
the
leste
that
abydeth
there
hath
more
Ioye
in
an
hour
only
.
and
of
deduyte
soulace
gladnes
and
of
honour
of
whiche
he
shal
neuer
be
wery
ne
full
/
than
ony
man
may
thynke
ne
knowe
ne
esteme
in
this
world
in
an
hondred
thousand
yere
yf
he
myght
so
longe
lyue
and
endure
.
thaugh
he
were
the
most
subtyll
of
alle
the
men
that
euer
were
born
or
euer
shal
be
though
he
thought
the
beste
he
myghte
/
¶
Of
this
so
grete
and
Inestymable
glorye
is
god
the
veray
and
souerayn
lord
wythout
ony
other
.
as
god
that
alle
knoweth
and
alle
seeth
.
alle
that
euer
that
hath
ben
alle
that
is
/
and
alle
that
euer
shal
be
/
&
alle
that
belongeth
to
hym
/
Hym
faylled
neuer
ony
thynge
that
is
good
/
he
hath
hem
allew●y
to
fore
hym
/
Ner
ther
was
neuer
ony
goode
thynge
ne
neuer
shal
be
/
But
that
it
was
pourtrayed
to
fore
hym
.
byfore
the
creacion
of
the
world
/
Now
ye
shal
here
why
and
wherfore
god
created
and
made
the
world
/
¶
Wherfor
god
made
and
created
the
world
/
Capitulo
.
ij
.
GOd
made
and
created
al
the
world
of
his
onli
wille
by
cause
that
he
myght
haue
some
thynge
that
myght
be
suche
as
myght
deserue
of
his
wele
and
goodnes
yf
it
were
not
in
his
defaulte
/
And
therfore
he
establysshid
this
world
.
Nothynge
for
that
he
shold
be
the
better
ne
that
he
had
ony
nede
/
But
he
dyde
it
for
charyte
&
by
his
grete
debonayrte
/
For
as
right
charytable
/
he
wolde
that
other
shold
parte
wyth
hym
of
his
wele
and
goodnes
.
And
that
alle
other
creatures
euerich
after
his
nature
shold
fele
of
his
puyssaunce
after
that
it
myght
apperteyne
to
hym
.
Thus
wold
god
establissh
this
world
.
that
suche
thyngs
shold
Issue
that
might
vnderstande
&
knowe
the
noblesse
of
his
power
&
of
his
sapyence
/
&
also
of
the
good
that
he
made
for
the
man
erthely
/
that
he
myght
serue
hym
in
suche
maner
.
that
by
hym
he
myght
deserue
the
grete
wele
&
good
that
he
had
made
for
hym
/
then
ne
ought
we
aboue
alle
other
thynge
to
loue
hym
&
thanke
hym
that
made
and
fourmed
vs
/
Whan
we
haue
suche
power
and
suche
auctoryte
by
hym
.
That
yf
we
wyll
loue
him
we
shal
be
lordes
of
all
goodes
.
Now
loue
we
him
thenne
wyth
all
our
myght
.
&
thenne
shal
we
doo
as
wyse
men
¶
And
yf
we
doo
not
we
shal
haue
grete
harme
and
dammage
/
For
yf
we
by
our
cause
lose
suche
goodes
as
our
lord
hath
made
for
vs
/
Yet
for
alle
that
god
shal
lese
nothyng
/
Certaynly
he
made
them
to
th
ende
that
we
shold
haue
them
syth
that
by
our
good
dedes
we
myght
conne
deserue
them
and
that
he
of
his
grace
hath
gyuen
to
vs
the
wytte
.
th
entendement
and
the
power
/
¶
Wherfore
god
fourmed
man
lyke
vnto
his
ymage
and
to
his
semblaunce
/
Caplo.
iij.
Whan
god
fourm●ed
man
he
wolde
make
and
create
hym
like
vnto
his
ymage
and
semblamce
/
to
th
ende
that
he
shold
haue
remembranuce
of
the
goodes
that
he
had
lente
hym
/
¶
And
that
he
myght
deserue
them
alle
by
ryght
and
rayson
/
For
he
shewde
to
hym
so
grete
loue
/
that
aboue
alle
other
treasures
he
fourmed
hym
to
his
fygure
and
semblaunce
/
And
gaf
to
hym
naturelly
right
parfyght
vnderstondyng
for
to
loue
and
knowe
hym
more
than
ony
other
thynge
/
to
th
ende
that
he
myght
parte
more
largely
of
his
goodes
than
ony
other
creature
/
Ne
god
dyde
nene●
ne
made
for
other
creature
so
many
goode
thynges
/
as
he
hath
made
for
man
/
But
who
is
he
that
wyll
deserue
them
And
yf
he
doo
not
it
is
reason
that
he
sorowe
.
For
he
doth
to
god
no
bounte
.
that
doth
well
for
to
haue
his
grace
and
his
loue
/
For
he
doth
it
more
for
his
owen
prouffyt
/
than
he
doth
it
for
other
/
And
ther
for
he
doth
well
that
loueth
and
seruyth
hym
.
For
moche
may
he
calle
hym self
caytyff
and
meschaunt
/
that
by
his
folye
leseth
so
hye
.
so
noble
and
so
excellente
glorye
.
For
his
synne
that
prouffyteth
hym
nought
.
And
hath
not
in
th
ende
but
shame
and
blame
And
draweth
hym
in
to
suche
a
place
where
is
no
thynge
but
payne
.
y●e
.
sorowe
.
and
heuynesse
.
of
whiche
he
shal
neuer
see
hym
delyuerd
as
longe
as
helyueth
/
Thus
hath
heloste
the
grete
Ioye
that
was
gyuen
to
hym
/
whiche
is
taken
awaye
by
his
synne
.
And
myght
haue
ben
a
lord
yf
he
had
wolde
/
Yf
he
had
mayntened
hym self
in
doyng
alway
goode
werkes
.
and
wold
haue
absteyned
and
kepte
hym
fro
doyng
euyll
/
For
who
that
doth
wel
in
this
worlde
he
hath
so
moche
good
and
honour
that
th
angels
of
heuen
make
hym
theyr
lord
and
maystre
/
by
fore
god
kynge
of
alle
kynges
.
¶
Thenne
he
may
well
holde
hym
for
ewrous
and
happy
that
doth
so
moche
goode
in
erthe
duryng
his
lyff
that
may
conquere
and
haue
this
honour
/
And
that
may
euery
persone
do
all
for
hym self
yf
it
pleseth
hym
/
¶
Now
late
euerych
doo
as
hym
goode
shal
seme
.
and
take
whiche
that
he
wylle
/
For
he
may
wynne
by
doyng
well
and
also
lese
by
doyng
euyll
/
¶
Wherfor
god
made
not
the
man
/
suche
as
he
myght
not
synne
/
Capitulo
.
iiij
.
WHan
our
lord
god
created
the
man
/
he
gaf
to
hym
power
to
doo
his
fre
wylle
.
That
is
to
wete
to
doo
good
or
euyll
whiche
he
wolde
/
For
yf
god
had
made
the
man
suche
as
he
myght
not
haue
synned
ne
to
haue
doon
nothyng
but
well
.
he
shold
haue
take
from
hym
somwhat
of
his
power
/
For
he
myght
not
thenne
haue
doon
euyll
whan
it
had
plesyd
hym
/
And
thenne
it
shold
haue
folowed
/
that
wold
he
or
not
/
he
shold
alwaye
haue
doon
well
wythoute
reson
/
¶
And
thus
he
shold
not
haue
ben
cause
of
the
goode
that
he
sholde
haue
doon
/
but
it
sholde
haue
proceded
of
another
whiche
by
force
sholde
haue
caused
hym
and
haue
gyuen
hym
the
wylle
/
¶
And
he
by
the
moyen
of
that
he
so
sholde
doo
/
sholde
deserue
the
gwerdon
/
and
not
onely
he
/
For
lytyl
deserueth
he
that
by
force
of
other
doth
seruyse
/
who
that
to
morow
shold
put
me
in
a
stronge
pryson
ayenst
my
wylle
for
to
doo
goode
/
I
sholde
not
holde
hym
for
wyse
/
For
he
shold
doo
me
wronge
/
Neuertheles
it
was
well
in
our
lordes
power
yf
it
had
plesed
hym
to
haue
made
man
suche
that
he
shold
not
haue
synned
ne
haue
don
ony
harme
ne
euyll
/
But
he
had
not
deseruyd
yet
suche
meryte
ne
reward
as
he
now
doth
in
noo
tyme
of
the
world
/
And
therfore
god
gaf
to
man
playn
frewylle
to
doo
well
or
euyll
to
th
ende
that
in
wel
doyng
and
leuyng
the
euyll
he
myght
haue
more
meryte
/
For
otherwyse
he
myght
not
deserue
so
moche
/
yf
god
had
made
th
angels
suche
as
myght
not
haue
synned
dedly
/
ne
haue
don
euyll
/
For
that
yet
shold
not
they
deserue
so
noble
a
yefte
as
the
men
/
And
who
that
wyll
deserue
these
hye
merytes
/
he
ought
gladly
wyth
entyer
herte
and
parfyght
serue
by
grete
loue
and
grete
reuerence
hym
that
hath
made
hym
for
to
conquere
and
come
to
the
most
hye
honour
.
And
our
lord
god
wolde
that
man
were
suche
/
that
by
ryght
he
myght
deserue
as
moche
goode
a
boute
hym
as
he
hym self
hath
.
¶
And
therfore
he
gaf
to
hym
witte
and
r●son
for
to
haue
entencion
to
hym
/
For
by
ryght
he
ought
well
to
serue
hym
/
Thenne
is
he
a
moche
fooll
that
pourueyeth
not
to
doo
wel
whiles
he
is
here
lyuynge
/
For
all
the
good
that
euery
man
shal
do
.
shal
be
for
hym self
/
&
alle
the
euyll
also
.
And
eche
man
shal
haue
for
one
good
thinge
/
an
hondreed
good
thynges
/
and
for
one
euyll
an
hondred
euellis
/
For
he
is
a
moche
fool
that
weneth
to
doo
god
ony
bounte
of
his
goodys
in
ony
maniere
that
it
be
/
And
whan
he
absteneth
hym
fro
doyng
euyll
.
so
moche
our
lord
holdeth
hym
the
derrer
.
and
loueth
hym
the
better
.
For
yf
he
loste
alle
the
world
.
Our
lord
shold
neuer
be
the
lasse
worth
.
ne
none
of
the
goodys
that
ben
in
his
power
/
yf
alle
the
sayntes
that
euer
here
to fore
in
the
world
or
euer
shal
be
/
had
neuer
don
goode
/
¶
And
that
alle
by
her
demerytes
were
perpetuelly
dampned
in
helle
.
yet
for
alle
that
our
lord
god
shold
neuer
haue
the
lasse
Ioye
ne
consolacion
.
And
shold
not
be
the
lasse
worth
.
ne
noo
thynge
that
is
in
heuen
/
But
the
sayntes
were
wyse
prudent
.
and
constaunt
for
to
doo
well
and
prouffyt
/
as
they
that
playnely
knewe
that
this
world
is
not
but
a
vayn
thynge
and
transsitoyre
.
And
had
moche
leuer
to
suffre
paynes
&
trauaylles
/
and
offre
their
bodyes
to
tourment
and
martirdom
&
to
haue
shames
/
blasphemies
and
other
Iniuryes
for
the
loue
of
our
lord
in
this
miserable
world
that
so
lytyl
whyle
endureth
/
And
to
haue
the
goodes
of
heuen
euerlastyng
.
than
to
haue
ease
chaungeable
to
the
body
/
for
to
haue
payne
perdurable
/
They
retched
not
ne
had
no
charge
of
suche
goodys
that
atte
laste
shold
be
of
noo
value
/
¶
But
they
toke
the
brydle
by
the
teeth
for
to
gete
the
right
hye
wytte
and
vnderstandyng
of
heuen
.
And
ther
ben
many
of
them
that
hol●e
them
for
foolys
in
this
world
/
the
whiche
now
at
this
tyme
haue
their
neekys
charged
.
of
whiche
the
other
be
deliueryd
.
For
they
ben
herberowed
in
heuen
/
And
yet
holde
they
many
a
wyse
man
for
fool
that
preyse
not
moche
their
wordes
.
Ther
ben
plente
of
wyse
people
in
heuen
now
/
that
yf
they
had
preysed
the
foolissh
dictes
or
sayngis
And
the
folishe
werkys
of
the
people
that
so
moche
coueyte
the
honouyr
and
loos
of
this
world
for
the
worde
of
foles
.
that
they
had
lefte
the
commaundementis
of
god
/
In
whiche
the
sayntes
in
heuen
dyde
gretely
their
deuoyr
/
For
they
lefte
not
for
the
delytes
of
the
world
to
serue
their
maker
and
creatour
for
to
gete
heuen
where
they
haue
Ioye
and
alle
honour
as
they
that
ben
lordes
and
shal
ben
wythout
ende
/
¶
And
yf
they
had
doon
otherwyse
they
shold
haue
perpetuelly
shame
fylthe
&
tourmentis
of
helle
where
as
ben
alle
the
euyllys
that
man
can
deuyse
.
¶
It
is
moche
grete
meruayle
of
this
world
how
that
it
is
so
.
that
ther
ben
so
moche
people
that
wyl
suffre
payne
and
trauaylle
more
for
to
gete
loos
of
the
people
or
for
to
amasse
grete
tresours
.
the
whiche
so
lytyl
tyme
abyde
wyth
hem
/
that
in
an
one
hour
fayll
/
than
they
wylle
doo
for
to
conquere
the
goodes
of
our
lord
the
whiche
shal
neuer
fayll
.
whiche
the
blyssyd
sayntes
haue
goten
by
a
lytyl
hard
lyf
that
they
haue
endured
in
this
world
that
me
semeth
but
a
right
delyte
to
them
that
of
good
herte
doo
it
/
¶
And
in
thend●it
semeth
to
them
.
that
for
litil
or
nought
they
haue
goten
heuen
/
and
alle
thus
may
euery
persone
gete
it
.
and
be
comyn
of
the
goodes
of
our
lord
and
haue
the
Ioyes
and
glorye
of
heuen
/
yf
the
defaulte
be
not
in
hem
self
.
But
they
that
desyre
the
Ioyes
the
glorye
and
henours
of
this
world
/
they
empayre
them self
so
moche
that
they
may
not
lerne
no
good
ne
entende
to
their
sauacion
/
And
had
moche
leuer
the
ease
and
consolacions
of
the
body
of
whiche
they
ben
so
sone
put
out
.
and
brought
to
sorow
and
payne
than
they
doo
the
ease
of
the
soule
whiche
endureth
wythout
ende
/
Ne
they
preyse
not
the
witte
ne
entendement
of
the
man
yf
he
can
not
wel
haue
hym
in
the
world
and
haue
plente
of
temporal
goodes
.
by
whiche
he
may
be
enhaunsed
and
lyft
vp
in
the
world
/
but
saye
he
is
nyce
and
folissh
by
cause
he
can
not
knowe
their
malyces
&
cawteles
¶
But
alle
they
ben
cursed
of
god
by
the
mouth
of
dauid
the
prophete
that
so
payne
them
to
plese
the
world
by
alle
the
wayes
that
they
can
doo
/
For
suche
pryde
is
vayne
thynge
by
whiche
the
soule
is
enpayred
/
of
whom
dauid
saith
in
the
psaulter
accursid
be
alle
they
and
confused
/
as
people
of
exyle
that
playse
the
world
/
For
of
all
goodes
they
extende
them
and
discorde
fro
god
and
fro
his
loue
/
Syth
they
haue
gyuen
them
and
that
they
accorde
them
to
the
world
to
his
vanytees
and
delytes
.
For
god
hath
them
all
in
despyte
/
and
put
them
fro
his
grace
/
by
cause
they
seche
the
loos
and
the
glorye
.
of
the
world
/
In
whiche
he
was
put
out
and
sette
a
backe
and
in
th
ende
crucyfyed
and
helden
for
a
fool
.
¶
Thus
sayth
our
lord
god
in
his
gospel
/
that
alle
they
shal
be
blyssyd
that
haue
the
world
in
despyte
/
¶
And
shal
be
as
people
hated
defowled
and
cast
out
as
foles
for
the
loue
of
me
and
of
my
name
/
For
they
shal
haue
in
heuen
their
reward
and
guerdon
/
And
this
may
euery
man
see
yf
god
hym self
lye
not
/
And
trouthe
may
not
be
false
/
that
they
whiche
plese
the
world
/
and
wylle
haue
and
take
the
loos
and
glorye
of
the
world
/
it
may
not
be
but
they
after
haue
sorowe
.
¶
Therfore
he
is
a
fool
that
secheth
to
haue
it
by
cause
alle
they
that
weeshe
or
pourchace
it
.
be
euyl
counseyled
/
For
alle
suche
maner
of
people
ben
by
the
deuyl
ledde
in
to
helle
where
they
haue
a
ryght
sorouful
guerdon
/
And
ther
is
nowher
so
valyaunt
a
kynge
ne
so
puyssaunte
prince
/
duk
.
erle
.
knyght
.
or
noble
man
to
whom
the
deuyll
hath
regard
but
that
he
do
to
hym
as
moche
gryef
to
his
power
/
as
to
the
most
vyle
and
most
poure
that
cometh
into
helle
/
whan
he
hath
so
vsed
his
dayes
and
lyf
that
he
is
fallen
in
his
handes
/
For
alle
they
that
ben
dampned
for
to
goo
theder
of
what
estat
that
they
be
.
ben
called
rybauldis
For
he
myght
haue
conquerd
in
heuen
more
noble
and
more
worthy
Royamme
than
is
in
this
world
/
For
who
that
in
thys
world
serueth
our
lord
vnto
the
deth
/
he
is
more
honoured
in
heuen
than
alle
the
kynges
that
euer
were
in
this
world
that
so
lityl
endureth
wyth
vs
/
Now
serue
we
him
thenne
&
leue
we
the
euyl
/
the
glorye
&
the
vanyte
of
this
world
/
Syth
thenne
that
hereto fore
we
haue
deuysed
how
&
wherfore
god
hath
created
the
world
&
wherfor
he
made
man
/
we
shal
deuyse
to
yow
herafter
the
fourme
of
the
world
and
the
facyon
after
that
it
conteyneth
&
compryseth
/
and
how
it
is
made
and
composed
rounde
aboute
.
But
it
is
expedyent
that
to
fore
this
we
speke
of
the
vij
Artes
lyberal
and
of
their
resons
.
And
how
they
were
founden
by
them
that
apperceyued
the
sciences
and
vertues
.
For
by
the
vij
.
Artes
ben
knowen
the
faytes
of
the
world
/
And
how
it
is
sette
.
And
therfore
we
owe
now
to
speke
therof
for
to
vnderstonde
the
better
that
we
shal
saye
here
after
.
¶
Wherfor
and
how
the
seuen
Artes
liberall
were
founden
and
of
their
ordre
/
Capitulo
/
vo.
NOw
declared
this
booke
whiche
is
drawen
out
of
Astronomye
how
somtyme
the
notable
&
wyse
philosophers
wold
enquere
of
the
maner
of
the
world
/
&
how
hit
had
ben
created
and
made
of
god
.
wherof
moche
people
meruaylled
/
And
thenne
whan
the
world
was
made
and
compassed
/
ther
was
people
ynowhe
/
of
whiche
many
behelde
the
firmament
/
that
torned
round
aboute
the
world
&
meuyd
they
had
grete
meruaylle
how
it
myght
be
made
/
And
they
waked
&
studyed
many
nyghtes
&
many
dayes
.
Thenne
began
they
to
beholde
the
sterres
that
roos
in
the
eest
.
&
meuyd
aboute
ouer
their
hedes
Certaynly
thyse
philosophers
apetyted
not
these
grete
mangeryes
ne
.
delycyous
wynes
ne
for
to
fylle
their
belyes
as
don
beestis
that
seche
nothynge
but
their
pasture
lyke
as
this
day
do
they
that
retche
of
nothynge
but
to
fylle
their
paunche
wyth
good
wynes
&
good
vitaylles
&
after
to
haue
a
fair
bedde
/
whyte
shetes
&
softe
/
And
there
to
slepe
as
the
swyne
/
but
those
were
wakyng
&
studienge
many
nyghtes
&
it
greued
them
not
.
but
they
were
embelysshid
moche
of
that
they
sawe
the
fyrmament
thus
tourne
&
so
nobly
to
holde
his
cours
&
termes
/
Thus
sawe
they
the
sterres
meue
tyl
they
went
doun
in
the
weste
.
somme
on
that
one
syde
.
&
somme
on
that
other
syde
/
And
somme
sonner
than
the
other
/
Thus
behelde
the
prudent
men
philosophers
&
other
aboute
the
firmament
tyl
it
was
day
that
they
sawe
the
sonne
shewe
&
reyse
in
the
mornyng
rede
and
clere
whiche
ascended
&
mounted
half
the
day
/
And
that
other
half
descended
so
longe
tyl
he
went
vnder
whiche
made
the
nyght
tapproche
/
&
thenne
cam
agayn
the
sterres
in
the
nyght
in
their
cours
tyl
the
sonne
cam
agayn
&
enlumyned
the
day
/
&
helde
his
way
and
cours
tyl
that
he
repayred
on
the
morne
in
to
his
pryncypal
place
.
After
they
behelde
the
mone
.
whiche
was
a
comune
thynge
&
apered
to
the
world
dyuersely
.
One
tyme
she
mas
rounde
.
another
tyme
half
.
and
after
horned
/
&
so
wente
&
becam
suche
as
noman
myght
see
her
/
And
after
she
appered
horned
&
syth
half
as
she
had
ben
to
fore
/
&
also
round
&
ful
.
Thenne
knewe
they
wel
by
their
entendement
that
she
approched
the
sonne
tyl
she
was
euen
ayenst
hym
.
and
after
departed
/
And
after
she
wythdrewe
her
more
and
more
tyl
that
she
was
vnder
the
sonne
as
she
had
ben
to fore
.
And
thenne
she
went
&
cam
agayn
euery
nyght
&
tornyng
and
makyng
her
cours
aboute
the
firmament
.
right
as
she
now
doth
with
out
ony
thing
changyng
the
contrarye
.
But
now
as
said
is
the
people
that
ben
now
thynke
more
/
And
ben
moche
more
curyous
of
their
grete
and
fatte
paunches
for
to
fylle
/
and
to
make
them
fatte
.
by
whiche
they
come
the
sonner
to
their
ende
and
to
carayn̄
&
by
their
ouer
moche
norysshyng
and
vylaynous
.
whiche
delyuereth
them
first
to
trauaylle
&
after
to
shame
&
dampnacyon
.
The
auncient
faders
gouerned
them
not
in
this
wyse
/
For
they
setted
not
by
mete
&
drynke
/
but
for
to
taledge
their
hungre
and
thurste
for
to
susteyne
theyr
bodyes
&
tobolee
hem
in
helthe
in
suche
wyse
as
they
might
helpe
them self
by
their
wyttes
/
as
they
ought
to
doo
for
to
come
to
the
glorye
of
our
lord
/
And
that
tyme
they
lyued
xx
or
xxx
yere
lenger
than
they
do
now
of
an
honderd
one
/
And
that
procedeth
of
their
folissh
&
outrageous
gouernaunce
/
Certaynly
suche
people
vnderstande
not
wel
the
worde
of
our
lord
whan
he
sayd
to
the
deuyll
whan
he
cam
to
tempte
him
and
sayde
that
he
shold
make
of
the
stones
brede
and
that
he
shold
ete
/
Thenne
Ihesu
Cryst
answerd
.
that
man
lyued
not
onely
by
brede
/
but
by
the
worde
that
procedeth
fro
the
mouth
of
god
yf
the
men
in
thyse
dayes
vnderstode
well
this
worde
/
they
wolde
reteyne
more
gladly
the
doctrynes
that
procede
and
come
fro
the
mouth
of
our
creatour
and
maker
But
the
grete
rentes
that
they
haue
.
and
the
grete
tresours
of
their
coffres
ben
cause
of
shortyng
&
abredgyng
of
their
dayes
.
by
their
disordynat
mangeries
that
ouermoche
noye
and
greue
them
.
so
that
nature
may
not
well
bere
ne
susteyne
/
wherof
the
muste
nedes
the
sonner
rendre
their
soule
and
deye
.
Thus
their
rentes
/
their
tresours
or
other
thynge
wherin
they
delyte
them
/
take
away
thier
lyf
their
herte
/
&
their
wytte
alle
attones
.
In
suche
wyse
that
whan
deth
cometh
&
muste
nedes
dye
/
they
haue
lost
wytte
&
vnderstondyng
/
of
whom
many
ben
deed
&
dampned
/
whiche
at
their
nede
may
not
be
counseylled
ne
can
not
helpe
them self
/
whan
they
haue
most
nede
/
they
lyue
not
lyke
them
that
for
to
kepe
them
fro
perilles
studyed
in
sciences
&
vsed
their
lyf
in
suche
manere
that
they
wold
but
susteyne
theyr
body
onely
as
longe
as
they
shold
be
in
this
world
.
as
they
that
well
knewe
that
this
lyf
shold
not
to
them
longe
endure
/
And
had
enuye
at
none
other
thynge
.
but
onely
for
to
lerne
suche
science
by
whiche
they
myght
knowe
the
souerayn
kynge
allmyghty
that
alle
hath
created
of
nought
&
made
it
wyth
his
hand
.
Thenne
they
thought
in
their
entendement
as
people
that
was
of
noble
and
vertuous
entencion
that
they
shold
neuer
haue
knowleche
of
our
lord
god
ne
of
so
hye
myght
but
yf
they
entended
&
serched
in
his
werkes
whiche
they
fonde
so
excellente
.
And
as
grete
as
they
myght
enquere
&
knowe
.
For
men
shal
neuer
wel
knowe
the
maystre
.
but
yf
byfore
men
knowe
par●yghtly
his
estate
and
what
his
werkes
ben
/
For
by
the
werkys
is
the
werkeman
knowen
.
and
how
he
may
be
suche
one
/
And
therfor
the
auncyent
faders
wold
employe
them
&
assaye
the
werkys
of
our
lorde
/
And
first
for
to
haue
knowleche
of
his
power
and
his
vertue
.
Consideryng
that
they
myght
not
ocupye
them self
in
a
more
digne
ne
worthy
scyence
ne
more
diffycyle
.
And
whan
the
more
that
they
knewe
of
his
werkys
&
of
his
wysedom
/
somoche
more
had
they
the
better
wylle
to
loue
her
creatour
and
maker
/
&
to
honoure
hym
consyderyng
that
he
had
made
so
noble
a
thynge
and
so
worthy
as
is
the
heuen
in
whiche
ben
the
sterres
that
shyne
bright
therin
/
and
his
other
meruayllous
vertues
whiche
they
preysed
moche
.
For
how
moche
more
they
presed
hym
/
somoche
wyth
good
wylle
they
seruyd
hym
.
For
it
was
all
their
affeccion
.
Intencion
and
reson
to
knowe
god
/
for
as
moche
as
they
knewe
certainli
that
god
had
gyuen
to
them
wyth
nature
wytte
and
rayson
for
to
serche
and
compryse
of
thynges
of
th
erthe
.
and
of
them
of
heuen
as
moche
as
they
might
knowe
.
For
otherwyse
they
myght
neuer
haue
thought
it
/
Thus
a
man
be
he
neuer
so
wyse
ne
discrete
/
may
neuer
come
for
to
vnderstande
the
hye
secretes
of
god
ne
of
his
myracles
/
but
by
hym
for
by
right
he
knoweth
al
But
of
them
that
by
nature
be
made
and
ordeyned
in
heuen
and
in
erthe
/
man
may
wel
enquere
somme
resons
yf
it
be
gyuen
him
&
that
he
be
garnisshed
of
good
quyk
witte
And
that
be
haue
sette
&
employed
his
tyme
to
studye
&
to
lerne
/
And
sith
they
had
goten
vnderstandyng
&
rayson
by
their
grete
estudye
labour
and
trauayll
/
somoche
that
they
myght
compryse
wherfore
&
how
alle
the
world
was
made
&
compassed
as
ye
haue
herd
here
to
fore
/
So
thought
they
thenne
/
that
they
myght
wel
knowe
and
haue
reson
of
somme
thynges
sith
they
had
the
vnderstandyng
of
hym
that
is
almyghty
to
knowe
in
partye
or
atte
leste
of
suche
as
they
myght
se
wyth
their
eyen
.
how
well
that
they
were
ferre
.
Thus
wold
they
knowe
the
reson
of
that
.
that
they
sawe
so
meue
the
sterres
of
the
firmament
&
of
them
that
shone
so
clere
.
Certaynly
this
was
the
princyial
cause
whi
first
they
put
them
to
studye
for
tenquere
the
science
that
they
knewe
not
.
And
knewe
wel
that
they
shold
enquere
sonner
of
thynges
that
they
sawe
than
of
them
that
they
sawe
not
/
And
therfore
were
they
meuyd
for
to
knowe
&
tenquere
the
science
whiche
they
knewe
not
of
that
they
had
ofte
seen
the
firmament
to
meue
/
&
wold
knowe
the
trouth
And
sayde
it
was
right
good
to
knowe
it
/
Yf
it
pleasyd
god
/
&
to
knowe
of
his
naturel
werkes
.
for
the
more
parfightly
to
byleue
&
knowe
how
he
was
god
all
myghty
/
for
men
coude
not
knowe
ne
fynde
no
resons
of
god
but
only
by
his
werkis
/
The
good
auncient
wyse
men
/
whiche
dylygenly
wold
vnderstonde
this
mater
/
had
no
cure
for
to
amasse
none
other
goodes
/
but
only
to
lerne
the
pure
science
.
they
were
not
couetous
/
ne
sette
not
to
gadre
tresours
/
&
ther
were
plente
of
them
that
apperceyued
as
wyse
men
that
it
was
a
grete
charge
to
them
oftymes
as
wel
to
kepe
it
/
as
to
spende
it
by
mesure
as
in
other
wayes
to
gete
it
and
brynge
it
to gydre
/
And
that
alle
this
was
a
lettyng
to
them
for
to
lerne
.
And
they
delyberyd
emonge
them
and
concluded
that
somme
caste
and
threwe
their
tresour
in
to
the
see
.
The
other
gaf
it
away
and
abandonned
to
them
that
wold
take
it
.
&
wente
as
heremytes
.
And
the
other
departed
it
to
poure
people
.
And
other
ther
were
that
lefte
their
good
in
suche
wyse
as
them
semed
that
they
shold
hauelasse
cause
to
thynke
theron
.
&
reteyned
nothing
but
onli
for
their
vse
/
And
helde
wyth
hem
certayn
folke
to
serue
them
to
th
ende
only
that
they
shold
entende
to
nothyng
but
to
studye
and
to
lerne
/
They
dyde
do
edefye
their
houses
fro
the
people
lyke
as
relygeous
people
and
sette
them
in
suche
places
that
thries
or
foure
tymes
the
weke
they
myght
assemble
&
come
to gydre
for
to
solace
them
&
sporte
/
and
there
eche
rendred
his
reson
of
that
he
had
founde
and
lerned
/
And
so
longe
dyde
they
thus
tyl
they
had
experymented
whiche
was
trewe
.
and
who
knewe
moste
&
that
they
had
founde
who
had
moste
grettest
entendement
/
And
hym
they
chose
by
consent
of
them
alle
for
maystre
.
And
he
recorded
their
resons
heryng
all
the
felawys
/
&
reherced
to
them
alle
to
gydre
that
euery
man
had
sayd
/
In
this
manere
were
the
clergyes
first
founden
contryued
&
auaunced
.
and
so
moche
trauaylled
&
studyed
that
they
knew
by
the
helpe
of
our
lorde
of
whom
all
science
groweth
&
haboundeth
grete
partye
of
that
it
is
.
But
this
was
not
in
lytyl
tyme
.
For
they
were
longe
in
studie
and
vnderstode
moche
/
And
they
that
were
first
.
alle
that
they
vnderstode
&
knewe
.
they
put
it
in
wrytyng
the
best
wyse
they
coude
.
to
th
ende
that
they
that
sholde
come
after
them
.
&
wold
entremete
in
conning
myght
haue
their
wrytynges
&
trauaylle
allway
in
the
science
as
they
had
don
byfore
Alle
that
they
founde
and
sawe
/
they
sette
in
compylacyons
/
And
dyde
so
moche
eche
in
his
tyme
that
they
were
more
than
.ij.
M.
&
CCCC
.
yere
er
they
by
their
labours
&
contynuel
studyes
had
goten
the
vij
.
artes
or
sciences
liberal
&
put
to gydre
.
but
they
helde
their
labour
well
employed
&
the
payne
that
they
put
therto
/
For
they
knewe
by
their
wytte
and
by
their
clergye
/
alle
that
was
come
on
erthe
by
nature
/
whan
they
wold
sette
ther
cure
theron
.
And
also
were
not
abasshed
whan
a
merueyllous
caas
happed
on
heuen
or
on
erthe
/
for
they
coude
wel
enquere
the
reson
wherfore
it
was
&
sith
that
it
happed
by
nature
/
And
so
loued
god
moche
the
more
whan
they
sawe
suche
meruayllous
werkis
.
And
watched
many
nyghtes
wyth
right
grete
Ioye
&
grete
studye
of
this
that
they
sawe
fonde
so
hye
werkes
by
whiche
they
amended
them self
ayenst
our
lord
that
they
knewe
trouth
.
&
lefte
the
vanyte
of
this
world
/
that
so
lytyl
is
worth
for
to
come
to
the
Ioye
that
neuer
shal
faylle
/
Of
whom
plente
of
wyse
philosophers
that
were
in
the
world
deyde
wrongfully
&
wythout
reson
/
by
cause
they
shewde
rightfully
to
the
grete
lordes
/
&
gaf
them
fayr
examples
in
repreuyng
&
myspreysyng
their
euyl
tyrannyes
&
th
extorsions
that
they
dyde
to
moche
people
.
And
preched
to
them
ryght
&
trouth
.
&
thoo
that
wold
not
byleue
them
&
had
shame
of
that
they
were
of
them
blamed
/
they
made
them
to
be
put
in
their
prysons
/
where
they
made
them
to
deye
by
greuous
tourmentes
by
cause
they
shewd
to
them
the
trouth
wherof
they
were
certayn
/
lyke
as
was
don
to
holy
sayntes
that
suffred
deth
&
passyon
for
the
loue
of
Ihu
crist
whom
they
wold
enhaunse
.
so
were
ther
suche
philosophers
that
by
their
wytte
&
vnderstandyng
prophecyed
the
holy
tyme
of
the
comyng
of
Ihu
crist
lyke
as
virgyle
said
whiche
was
in
the
tyme
of
Cezar
at
rome
/
by
whiche
plente
of
people
haue
ben
better
syth
/
than
they
were
byfore
/
For
he
sayde
that
a
newe
lygnage
was
enioyed
fro
heuen
on
hygh
that
shold
doo
vertues
in
erthe
by
whom
the
deuyll
shold
be
ouercomen
/
Vpon
whiche
saynt
poul
that
sawe
this
scrypture
whiche
he
moche
preysed
/
sayde
wyth
a
sorowful
herte
for
so
moche
as
he
had
not
ben
crysten
.
Ha
that
I
shold
haue
ren
/
dred
&
yelden
that
to
god
yf
thou
haddest
lyued
/
&
that
I
had
come
to
the.
Other
philosophers
ther
were
of
whome
euerich
sayde
goode
wordes
and
meruayllous
.
But
we
may
not
now
reherce
alle
the
goode
thynges
that
they
sayde
For
they
were
prudent
alle
and
valyant
.
seen
that
they
set
to
fore
alle
other
thinges
clergye
/
For
yf
it
were
not
by
clergye
/
men
shold
not
knowe
that
god
were
/
And
yf
they
had
not
ben
so
prudent
men
as
they
were
ther
had
neuer
be
so
grete
clergye
as
is
now
/
And
yf
ther
were
now
suche
as
they
were
thenne
that
founde
first
clergye
/
It
sholde
be
other
wyse
than
it
now
is
/
But
clergye
goth
now
all
to
noght
that
almost
it
is
perysshid
.
For
in
thise
dayes
the
people
seeth
not
by
cause
that
they
that
ought
vnderstande
vertues
&
to
teche
other
&
enseyne
&
gyue
example
to
doo
well
they
ben
they
that
recule
&
wythdrawe
fro
it
.
And
all
this
procedeth
by
their
folye
/
For
noman
holdeth
clergye
for
vertue
.
ne
he
loueth
it
not
ne
applyeth
it
in
all
poyntes
.
But
many
ther
ben
that
sechen
the
lyes
&
drestys
/
&
leue
the
clere
wyn
/
For
noman
lerneth
ne
secheth
now
/
but
for
to
conne
so
moche
that
he
myght
conquere
&
gete
the
moneye
/
And
whan
they
haue
goten
&
largely
assemblyd
therof
/
thenne
ben
they
werse
than
they
were
afore
/
For
the
money
hath
so
surprysed
them
that
they
may
entende
to
none
other
thynge
.
Ther
ben
plente
of
poure
clerkes
that
gladly
wold
lerne
yf
they
had
the
power
/
But
they
may
not
entende
therto
.
by
cause
they
haue
not
wherof
for
to
furnysshe
them
of
their
necessytees
as
wel
for
to
haue
bookes
as
mete
drinke
&
clothes
But
ben
constrayned
for
to
gete
their
liuyng
other
wyse
/
for
the
riche
haue
now
in
thise
dayes
seased
somoche
/
that
the
poure
abyde
naked
&
must
suffre
.
yet
ben
ther
plente
of
riche
clerkis
that
haue
bookes
wythout
nombre
of
one
&
other
richely
adoubed
and
couerd
to
th
ende
that
they
ben
holden
for
wyse
and
goode
clerkes
/
For
they
seche
to
haue
nomore
.
but
only
the
loos
and
preysing
of
the
people
/
And
dooo
in
lyke
wyse
as
the
Cock
that
shrapeth
in
the
duste
for
to
fynde
pasture
.
he
shrapeth
so
longe
in
the
duste
and
mulle
tyl
he
fynde
a
gemme
riche
and
precyous
whiche
shineth
clere
/
thenne
he
be
gynneth
to
loke
theron
and
beholdeth
it
/
and
doth
no
more
but
late
it
lye
/
For
he
demandeth
not
after
the
ouche
or
gemme
/
but
had
leueyr
haue
somme
corn
to
ete
/
In
lyke
wyse
is
it
of
many
of
thyse
not
wyse
clerkys
couetous
that
haue
the
precyous
bookes
richely
lymned
storyed
&
wel
adoubed
.
that
do
nothynge
but
loke
&
beholde
them
wythout
forth
while
they
be
newe
by
cause
them
seme
that
they
ben
fair
/
&
so
they
beholde
them
gladly
&
passe
therwyth
/
&
after
they
torne
on
that
other
syde
&
thynke
for
to
fylle
their
belyes
.
&
to
come
to
their
folyssh
desyres
/
and
they
myght
lerne
ynoughe
yf
they
wold
entende
it
.
For
they
haue
wel
the
power
.
&
myght
do
as
the
wise
men
dyde
herto fore
/
the
whiche
by
their
trauayl
studye
&
dylygence
fonde
first
the
clergyes
.
but
they
haue
their
entendement
folyssh
&
out
of
the
way
/
And
therfore
the
sciences
&
artes
perysshe
in
suche
wyse
that
vnneth
and
wyth
grete
payne
knowe
they
their
partes
of
reson
whiche
is
the
first
booke
of
gramayre
.
the
whiche
is
the
fyrst
of
the
seuen
sciences
/
But
put
their
artes
in
their
males
/
and
goo
lerne
anon
the
lawes
or
decretals
/
and
become
aduocates
and
iuristes
for
to
amasse
and
gadre
alway
money
wherin
the
deuyll
conforteth
hem
/
and
yet
doo
they
not
somoche
for
to
lerne
/
as
they
doo
for
to
fylle
their
purses
/
In
Parys
/
Oxenford
and
Cambrydge
is
there
suche
maner
of
clerkes
that
ben
acustomed
to
wylle
haue
the
renomme
and
fame
to
be
called
maystres
for
to
be
the
more
preysed
and
honoured
/
¶
And
haue
leuer
to
conne
lytyll
and
to
haue
the
name
of
maystre
.
than
they
shold
be
good
clerkes
wythout
hauyng
the
degree
and
name
of
maystre
.
But
they
be
called
maystres
wrongfully
/
For
vanyte
maystryeth
them
in
suche
wyse
that
they
can
but
lytyl
trouthe
.
bycause
that
they
haue
so
sone
the
name
of
maystre
they
leue
the
clergye
/
¶
And
take
them
to
the
wynnyng
/
lyke
as
marchants
doo
and
brokers
/
And
in
this
wyse
ben
many
in
the
world
that
haue
the
name
of
maystre
.
that
knowe
right
lytyl
of
good
and
reson
/
For
they
that
now
desyre
this
ben
not
maystres
after
right
.
for
they
ordeyne
them
otherwyse
to
the
sciences
than
they
dyde
that
fonde
them
first
.
They
entred
first
in
to
gramayre
for
to
drawe
reson
in
their
ordynaunce
&
after
logique
for
to
preue
&
shewe
the
trouth
fro
the
false
.
After
they
fonde
rethorique
for
to
speke
fayr
in
iugement
&
right
whiche
they
moche
loued
&
after
arsmetrique
for
to
be
expert
in
all
thinges
After
they
founde
geometrye
for
to
mesure
&
compasse
all
maistrye
&
after
the
founde
they
science
of
musyque
for
to
sette
al
thinges
in
concordaunce
/
after
they
had
the
vnderstandyng
of
astronomye
.
for
therby
were
they
meuyd
to
haue
science
&
vertue
.
In
this
manere
ye
may
vnderstande
how
they
the
first
founde
science
ordeyned
the
vij
artes
or
vij
sciences
.
&
they
ben
in
suche
wyse
entrelaced
that
they
may
not
be
auctorised
that
one
wythout
that
other
ne
entierly
preysed
.
And
also
the
first
may
not
be
perfyghtly
conned
wythout
the
laste
/
ne
the
laste
wythout
the
first
/
&
he
that
wyl
lerne
one
a
right
and
vnderstonde
it
.
hym
behoueth
to
lerne
all
the
other
/
ffor
other
wyse
may
not
be
knowen
apertly
the
certayn
/
ne
the
incertayn
/
For
that
one
is
so
comune
to
that
other
that
it
behoueth
to
knowe
of
alle
.
but
now
men
seche
to
lerne
nomore
but
the
arte
for
to
gete
the
moneye
/
&
ben
to
blame
of
that
the
other
were
preysed
that
first
so
trauaylled
of
whiche
it
is
to
vs
so
grete
nede
/
For
lytyl
shold
we
haue
knowen
yf
we
had
not
seen
it
by
writyng
/
For
as
it
is
to fore
sayd
/
yf
clergye
had
be
lost
we
had
knowen
nothyng
ne
who
had
be
god
/
ne
men
shold
neuer
haue
knowen
/
what
thyng
had
ben
best
to
do
.
&
so
shold
all
the
world
haue
ben
dampned
thenne
had
we
ben
born
in
an
euyl
houre
For
the
men
had
knowen
nomore
than
dombe
beestis
/
&
all
the
good
thynges
ben
now
knowen
&
alle
comen
of
the
seuen
sciences
that
the
philosophers
fonde
somtyme
by
their
wyttes
/
For
therby
had
they
vnderstondyng
to
loue
god
&
his
vertues
/
And
the
god
is
alway
&
shal
be
wythouten
ende
.
&
so
byleued
they
in
grete
fayth
truly
in
the
auncyent
lawe
/
But
in
thyse
dayes
the
sciences
perisshe
by
our
enuyes
detractions
&
other
euylles
in
suche
wyse
that
ryght
lytyl
is
reteyned
of
one
&
other
/
For
now
dar
no
man
entende
but
for
rychesse
/
For
●●yssayers
felons
&
enuyous
men
that
wyl
lerne
no
good
.
&
yf
they
see
ony
entende
to
sciences
&
clergyes
.
&
they
be
not
riche
&
myghty
for
to
furnysse
hem
/
the
riche
men
wyl
anon
scorne
&
mocque
them
/
&
thus
wyl
the
deuyl
exhorte
them
that
is
their
maister
&
their
lord
&
to
whom
it
pleseth
that
they
myssaye
in
so
moche
as
he
shal
reward
them
wyth
grete
hyre
that
they
shal
be
sure
to
haue
all
euyl
aduentures
in
helle
that
stynketh
where
they
shal
mocke
them self
&
shal
saye
that
they
were
born
in
an
euyll
houre
whan
they
haue
not
lerned
that
they
ought
to
lerne
/
there
shal
they
haue
more
ꝓuffyt
of
their
sciences
/
the
loued
better
to
conquere
clergye
than
the
fool
to
conne
knowe
to
assemble
the
grete
tresours
&
the
grete
richesses
/
&
knowe
ye
that
all
they
that
for
to
gete
worldely
goodes
lefte
their
tyme
for
to
lerne
good
/
ben
all
assured
to
haue
euyl
&
payne
after
their
deth
.
for
by
their
auaryce
and
cheuaunce
the
sciences
come
to
nought
.
so
that
almost
they
be
perisshid
.
&
that
whiche
now
is
knowen
.
cometh
&
groweth
of
the
vnyusitees
of
parys
oxenford
&
cambrige
&
other
&c
¶
Of
thre
maner
of
people
and
how
clergye
cam
fyrst
in
to
the
royamme
of
ffraunce
/
Capitulo
vjo.
NOw
regneth
clergye
moche
strongely
in
ffraunce
in
the
cyte
of
parys
as
somtyme
was
in
ye●yte
of
athenes
whiche
thenne
was
moche
noble
&
puyssaunt
/
The
philosophers
that
thenne
were
/
&
whiche
that
oughte
to
teche
&
lerne
other
/
acompted
but
thre
maner
of
people
in
the
world
after
their
vnderstandyng
/
and
that
were
clerkes
.
knyghtes
and
labourers
.
The
labourers
ought
to
pourueye
for
the
clerkes
and
knyghtes
suche
thynges
as
were
nedeful
for
them
to
liue
by
in
the
world
honestly
/
&
the
knyghtes
ought
to
defende
the
clerkis
&
the
labourers
that
ther
were
no
wronge
don
to
them
.
And
the
clerkis
ought
to
enseygne
&
teche
these
two
maner
of
people
/
&
to
adresse
them
in
their
werkis
in
suche
wyse
that
none
do
thyng
by
whiche
he
shold
displese
god
ne
lese
his
grace
.
Thus
setted
somtyme
the
wyse
philosophers
thre
maner
of
people
in
the
world
/
as
they
that
knewe
/
That
no
man
myght
sette
his
corage
in
that
he
myght
be
wyse
a
ryght
in
two
maners
or
thre
/
For
it
happed
neuer
day
of
the
world
that
clergye
cheualrye
&
labourers
of
th
erthe
myght
be
well
knowen
by
one
onely
man
in
all
his
lyf
ne
lerned
ne
reteyned
/
therfore
he
that
wold
lerne
byhoueth
hym
/
only
to
lerne
one
of
the
thre
.
and
therfore
the
philosophers
sette
thre
manner
of
people
wythout
moo
in
the
erthe
.
for
they
wold
seche
the
very
trouthe
/
And
sought
a
cyte
in
the
world
.
where
they
myght
best
be
&
dwelle
for
tenquere
thestate
of
the
clergye
.
and
thus
the
better
for
tadresse
them
/
&
to
teche
other
they
chees
the
cyte
of
athenes
whiche
was
noble
and
somtyme
one
where
they
had
their
comyn
resydence
&
assemble
.
And
there
regned
first
chiualrye
wyth
clergye
/
&
after
fro
thens
it
wente
to
rome
/
whiche
now
is
of
grete
renomme
.
And
there
cheualrye
contynued
long
/
And
frothens
after
it
remeuyd
into
ffraunce
/
where
chyualrye
hath
more
power
than
ony
other
place
in
the
world
.
And
thus
haboundeth
there
that
one
&
that
other
/
For
chiualrye
sieweth
alway
clergye
where
she
goth
.
thenne
the
kynge
of
fraunce
&
of
Englonde
may
be
ioyous
that
there
is
in
his
royames
suche
seignourye
as
is
science
of
clergye
where
euery
man
may
drawe
out
wytte
&
connyng
humayn
.
&
ther
abydeth
neuer
the
lasse
.
For
it
is
as
a
fontayn
that
contynuelly
sourdeth
and
springeth
.
And
the
more
it
renneth
&
the
ferther
.
the
more
it
is
holsom
.
&
how
more
the
sprynge
of
the
fontayn
renneth
and
ferther
somoche
is
the
more
of
the
water
.
&
the
more
may
be
taken
fro
it
for
nede
/
In
lyke
wyse
may
I
saye
to
yow
/
that
parys
Oxenford
&
Cambryge
ben
the
fontayns
where
men
may
drawe
out
most
science
&
more
in
parys
than
in
other
places
/
&
syth
it
is
soo
that
clergye
is
soo
moche
auaunced
in
fraunce
.
Thenne
ought
to
knowe
by
reson
in
especyall
yf
the
heyres
of
ffraunce
daygne
to
conne
it
.
For
lyke
as
the
sonne
is
moyst
fayr
of
alle
the
sterres
.
&
causeth
moste
good
thynges
to
growe
in
the
world
by
the
bounte
that
haboundeth
in
hym
.
so
ought
the
kyng
be
of
more
valewe
than
ony
other
.
&
to
haue
more
vnderstandyng
&
clergye
/
that
so
by
his
valyaunce
&
suffysaunce
he
myght
shyne
emonge
other
people
/
&
by
th
exemple
of
his
wel
doyng
that
they
see
in
hym
they
myght
by
right
conduyte
drawe
them
to
our
lord
&
in
suche
wyse
shold
he
be
kynge
by
right
in
this
world
/
&
in
heuen
/
so
thenne
shold
it
be
wel
right
&
rayson
that
they
do
their
dyligence
to
lerne
suche
clergye
&
science
.
that
after
this
mortal
lyf
they
lese
not
the
seignorye
of
heuen
.
For
by
nature
&
lyg●age
ought
they
alle
to
loue
clergye
&
alway
to
lerne
it
certes
th
emperour
of
almaygne
louyd
wyth
al
his
herte
clergye
/
And
auaunced
it
to
his
power
in
ffraunce
/
And
alle
the
good
clerkys
that
he
coude
fynde
he
reteyned
them
to
his
courte
.
&
sente
for
them
oueral
where
he
knewe
ony
.
he
had
in
his
tyme
many
a
trauayll
/
many
a
payne
/
&
many
a
daunger
&
ennoye
for
to
mayntene
and
enhaunce
crysten
fayth
.
¶
And
therfore
he
neuer
lefte
/
but
helde
the
THe
first
of
the
vij
sciences
is
gramayre
/
of
whiche
for
the
tyme
that
is
now
.
is
not
knowen
the
fourth
parte
wythout
whiche
science
sykerly
alle
other
sciences
in
especial
ben
of
lytyl
recommendacion
by
cause
wythout
gramayre
ther
may
none
prouffyte
.
For
gram●yre
is
the
fondement
and
the
begynnynge
of
clergye
.
&
it
is
the
yate
by
the
whiche
in
th
enfancye
is
begonne
&
in
contynnyng
men
come
and
atteyne
to
sapience
of
clergye
.
this
is
the
science
to
fourme
the
speche
be
it
in
latyn
frenshe
or
englissh
or
in
ony
other
langage
the
men
speke
wyth
.
&
who
that
coude
all
gramayre
he
couthe
make
&
construe
eueri
worde
.
and
pronounce
it
by
exemple
god
made
the
worlde
by
wor●e
/
&
the
word
is
to
the
world
sentence
¶
Here
foloweth
of
logyke
ca.
viij
THe
seconde
science
is
logike
whiche
is
called
dyaletyque
This
science
proueth
the.
pro.
and
the.
contra
/
That
is
to
saye
the
veryte
or
trouthe
/
&
other
wyse
/
And
it
preueth
wherby
shal
be
knowen
the
trewe
fro
the
fals
/
&
the
good
fro
the
euyll
.
So
veryly
that
for
the
good
was
created
heuen
&
maad
.
&
on
the
contrarye
wyse
for
the
euyl
was
helle
maad
&
establysshyd
whiche
is
horryble
stynkyng
&
redoubtable
/
¶
Hier
speketh
of
Rethoryque
.
Capitulo
/
ixo.
THe
therde
of
the
vij
.
sciences
is
callid
rethoryque
whiche
conteineth
in
substance
/
rightwysnes
rayson
and
ordynaunce
of
wordes
/
&
ought
not
to
be
holden
for
folye
/
For
the
droytes
and
lawes
by
whiche
the
Iugements
be
made
and
that
by
rayson
and
after
right
ben
kept
and
mayntened
in
the
court
of
kynges
of
prynces
&
of
barons
come
and
procede
of
rethoryque
/
Of
this
science
were
extrayt
and
drawen
the
lawes
and
decrees
whiche
by
nede
serue
in
alle
causes
/
and
in
all
rightes
and
droytes
/
Who
well
knewe
the
science
of
rethoryque
.
he
shold
knowe
the
right
and
the
wronge
/
For
to
doo
wronge
to
another
who
so
doth
it
/
is
loste
and
dampned
/
and
for
to
doo
right
&
reson
to
euery
man
.
he
is
saued
and
geteth
the
loue
of
god
his
creatour
/
¶
Here
foloweth
arsmetryque
&
wherof
it
procedeth
/
ca
/
xᵒ.
THe
fourth
science
is
called
arsmetrique
this
science
cometh
after
rethoryque
/
&
is
sette
in
the
myddle
of
the
vij
sciences
/
And
wythout
her
may
none
of
the
vij
sciences
parfyghtly
ne
wee
l
and
entierly
be
knowen
wherfore
it
is
expedyent
that
it
be
wel
knowen
&
conned
For
all
the
sciences
take
of
it
their
substaunce
in
suche
wyse
that
wythout
her
they
may
not
be
/
And
for
this
reson
was
she
sette
in
the
myddle
of
the
vij
sciences
.
&
there
holdeth
her
nombre
.
For
fro
her
procede
al
maners
of
nombres
And
in
alle
thynges
renne
comme
&
goo
.
And
no
thyng
is
wythout
nombre
/
But
fewe
perceyue
how
this
may
be
.
but
yf
he
haue
be
maystre
of
the
vij
Artes
so
longe
that
he
can
truly
saye
the
trouthe
/
But
we
may
not
now
recompte
ne
declare
alle
the
causes
wherfore
/
For
who
that
wolde
dispute
vpon
suche
werkes
him
behoued
despute
and
knowe
many
thynges
and
moche
of
the
glose
who
that
knewe
well
the
science
of
arsmetryque
he
myght
see
th
ordynaunce
of
alle
thynesby
ordynaunceg
was
the
world
made
and
created
.
And
by
ordynaunce
of
the
souerayn
it
shal
be
deffeted
/
¶
Next
foloweth
the
science
of
Geometrye
/
Capitulo
/
xjo.
THe
fifthe
is
called
geometrie
the
whiche
more
auaileth
to
astronomye
than
ony
of
the
vij
other
.
For
by
her
is
compassed
&
mesured
Astronomye
Thus
is
by
geometrye
mesured
all
thyngis
where
ther
is
mesure
by
geometrye
/
may
be
knowen
the
cours
of
the
sterres
whiche
alleway
go
&
meue
/
And
the
gretenes
of
the
firmament
of
the
sonne
of
the
mone
&
of
the
erthe
.
By
geometrye
may
be
knowen
all
thinges
&
also
the
quantyte
they
may
not
be
so
ferre
yf
they
may
be
sen
or
espyed
wyth
eye
but
it
may
be
knowen
/
who
wel
vnderstode
geometrye
he
myght
mesure
in
all
maystryes
.
for
by
mesure
was
the
world
made
and
alle
thynges
hye
▪
lowe
and
deep
/
¶
here
folowed
of
musyque
.
Capitulo
/
xijo.
THe
syxthe
of
the
vij
sciences
is
called
musyque
.
the
whiche
fourmeth
hym
of
arsmetryque
/
Of
this
science
of
musyque
cometh
alle
attemperaunce
/
And
of
this
arte
procedeth
somme
phsisyque
/
For
lyke
as
musique
accordeth
all
thynges
that
dycorde
in
them
/
&
remayne
them
to
concordaunce
.
right
so
in
like
wyse
trauaylleth
phisyque
to
brynge
nature
to
poynt
that
disnatureth
in
mannes
body
/
whan
ony
maladye
or
sekenes
encombreth
hit
.
But
phisique
is
not
of
the
nombre
of
the
vij
sciences
of
philosophie
/
But
it
is
a
maestier
or
a
craft
that
entendeth
to
the
helthe
of
mannes
body
&
for
to
preserue
it
fro
alle
maladyes
&
sekenesse
as
longe
as
the
lyf
is
in
the
body
.
and
therfore
it
is
not
liberal
/
For
it
serueth
to
hele
mannes
body
/
whiche
ellys
oftentymes
myght
lyghtly
perysshe
.
&
ther
is
nothyng
liberal
ne
free
that
groweth
of
th
erthe
/
&
for
as
moche
as
science
that
serueth
to
mannes
body
leseth
his
franchise
.
but
science
that
serueth
to
the
soule
deserueth
in
the
world
to
haue
name
liberal
.
for
the
soule
ought
to
be
liberal
as
thing
that
is
of
noble
beyng
as
she
that
cometh
of
god
/
&
to
god
wylle
&
ought
retorne
.
&
therfor
ben
the
vij
sciences
liberall
/
for
they
make
the
soule
al
free
.
&
on
that
other
part
/
they
teche
&
enseygne
al
that
in
euery
thyng
ought
proprely
to
be
don
/
&
this
is
the
very
reson
why
thyse
artes
all
vij
ben
called
vij
sciences
liberall
/
For
they
make
the
soule
liberall
/
&
delyuer
it
fro
all
euyll
/
Of
this
arte
is
musyque
thus
comune
/
that
she
accordeth
her
to
euerich
so
well
that
by
her
the
vij
sciences
were
sette
in
concorde
that
they
yet
endure
/
by
this
science
of
musyque
ben
extrayt
&
drawen
all
the
songes
that
ben
songen
in
holy
chirche
&
all
the
accordaūces
of
all
the
instruments
that
haue
diuerse
accordes
&
dyuse
sownes
.
&
where
ther
is
reson
&
entendement
of
somme
thynges
/
Certes
who
can
wel
the
science
of
musyque
/
he
knoweth
the
accordaunce
of
alle
thynges
/
And
alle
the
creatures
that
payne
them
to
doo
well
remayne
them
to
concordaunce
/
¶
Here
speketh
of
Astronomye
.
Capitulo
.
xiijo.
The
vij
&
the
laste
of
the
vij
sciences
lyberall
is
astronomie
Whiche
is
of
alle
clergie
the
ende
by
this
science
may
&
ought
to
be
enquyred
of
thynges
of
heuen
&
of
th
erthe
/
&
in
especyall
of
them
that
ben
made
by
nature
/
how
ferre
that
they
be
/
And
who
knoweth
wel
&
vnderstandeth
astronomye
/
he
can
sette
reson
in
alle
thynges
.
For
our
creatour
made
alle
thynges
by
reson
&
gaf
his
name
to
euery
thyng
/
By
this
arte
&
science
were
first
emprysed
&
goten
alle
other
sciences
of
decrees
&
of
dyuinyte
/
by
which
all
crystiante
is
conuted
to
the
right
fayth
of
our
lord
god
to
loue
hym
/
&
to
serue
the
kynge
almyghty
.
fro
whom
all
goodes
come
and
to
whom
they
retorne
/
whiche
made
all
astronomye
.
&
heuen
&
erthe
/
the
sonne
/
the
mone
&
the
sterres
.
as
he
that
is
the
very
rewler
&
gouernour
of
all
the
world
/
&
he
that
is
the
very
reffuge
of
all
creatures
.
For
wythout
his
playsir
nothynge
may
endure
.
Certes
he
is
the
very
Astronomyer
.
For
he
knoweth
all
the
good
&
the
badde
as
he
hym self
that
composed
astronomye
.
that
somtime
was
so
strongly
frequented
&
was
holden
for
a
right
hye
werke
.
for
it
is
a
science
of
so
noble
being
.
that
who
the
myght
haue
the
parfayt
science
therof
he
myght
wel
knowe
how
the
world
was
compassed
&
plente
of
their
parcyal
sciences
/
for
it
is
the
science
aboue
all
other
by
whiche
all
maner
of
thinges
ben
knowen
the
better
/
by
the
science
of
astronomye
only
.
were
founden
alle
the
other
.vj.
to fore
named
/
&
wythout
them
maye
none
knowe
a
right
astronomye
/
be
he
neu
so
sage
ne
myghty
/
In
lyke
wyse
as
an
hamer
or
an
other
tool
of
a
mason
ben
the
instruments
by
whiche
he
formeth
his
werke
.
&
by
whiche
he
doth
his
crafte
/
In
like
wyse
by
right
maistrye
ben
the
other
/
the
instruments
&
fondements
of
astronomye
.
&
the
auncient
wysemen
as
kynges
/
princes
.
dukes
/
erles
knyghtes
&
other
grete
lordes
by
their
vnderstondyng
grete
trauayl
/
estudye
.
&
by
the
hye
conduyte
that
was
in
them
sette
by
good
manere
al
their
payne
&
labour
to
lerne
&
knowe
the
sciences
&
artes
of
clergye
for
to
vnderstond
the
science
of
astronomye
/
&
so
longe
they
trauaylled
that
by
the
wylle
of
our
lord
they
lerned
&
knewe
ynough
.
for
they
knewe
plente
of
grete
affaires
&
werkes
that
happened
in
the
world
.
&
they
preysed
nothing
tho
thinges
that
were
erthely
.
as
they
that
knewe
wel
the
resons
therof
/
And
that
tyme
was
the
custome
that
yf
a
man
were
bonde
/
to
one
or
moo
.
or
yf
he
were
comen
of
litil
extraction
.
&
were
riche
&
ful
of
grete
goodes
.
yet
durste
he
not
estudye
in
the
vij
sciences
liberall
/
For
the
nobles
&
hye
men
that
in
all
poyntes
wolde
reteyne
them
pryncypal
&
to
th
ende
that
they
were
free
&
liberal
/
&
by
this
reson
they
put
therto
for
name
the
vij
artes
or
sciences
liberall
/
for
they
ben
so
fre
/
that
they
●endre
to
god
the
soule
all
free
/
&
they
ben
so
wel
to
poynt
that
ther
may
nothing
be
taken
away
.
ne
nothing
put
to
.
how
wel
yf
ony
wold
or
coude
medle
therwith
thaugh
he
were
a
good
clerke
&
experte
/
For
yf
they
were
torned
or
chaunged
ony
thing
that
myght
be
.
all
shold
be
disfygured
by
cause
they
ben
so
resonabli
&
truly
composed
/
that
that
ther
is
noman
lyuyng
in
the
world
.
be
he
neuer
of
so
moche
&
profounde
science
/
be
he
paynem
Iewe
or
cristen
that
may
ony
thyng
or
can
change
torne
/
ne
take
away
ne
defowle
it
in
ony
maner
.
&
who
that
parfyghtly
knewe
the
vij
artes
.
he
shold
be
byleuid
in
all
lawes
/
for
ther
is
noman
that
coude
interrupte
hym
of
ony
thing
that
he
wold
preue
.
were
it
true
or
otherwyse
/
by
cause
he
shold
preue
by
quyck
reson
all
that
he
wold
were
it
wronge
or
right
Thenne
is
he
a
fool
that
thinketh
to
knowe
perfyghtly
ony
thyng
that
appeteyneth
to
clergye
/
By
what
mestere
or
crafte
that
may
come
to
him
but
yf
it
be
by
myracle
of
god
that
all
may
doo
.
yf
he
can
none
of
the
vij
sciences
/
for
otherwyse
all
his
trauaylle
shold
be
of
no
valewe
ne
he
shold
not
conne
shewe
thynge
of
recommēdacion
ne
preue
by
right
the
pro.
&
contra
.
Therfor
the
vij
sciences
ben
byleued
in
all
the
lawes
.
there
as
they
ben
red
/
And
ther
is
noman
be
he
neuer
of
so
dyuerse
a
lawe
ne
of
diuse
langage
that
yf
he
conuerse
wyth
people
that
can
nothing
of
the
vij
sciences
ne
preue
of
their
vsages
ne
of
their
partes
that
shal
be
bileuyd
for
experte
&
wyse
/
Ne
ther
shal
neuer
be
Paynem
ne
sarasyn
so
moche
diuerse
/
that
a
Cristen
man
or
a
Iewe
may
wythsaye
hym
of
thynges
that
he
wil
aledge
or
preue
/
And
the
decretals
ne
the
lawes
be
not
euyll
/
thaugh
somme
people
holde
euyl
the
constitucions
that
ben
emonge
them
bycause
that
other
doo
them
&
holden
/
For
alle
the
lawes
depende
of
the
vij
sciences
/
And
alle
men
byleue
them
and
reteyne
them
.
there
where
as
people
knowe
them
.
And
alle
resons
that
procede
of
the
vij
sciences
ben
trewe
in
alle
causes
and
in
alle
places
.
Thus
ben
not
the
sciences
muable
/
but
allewaye
ben
estable
&
trewe
Herwyth
I
deporte
me
to
speke
more
to
you
herof
/
For
ther
is
ynough
here
of
tofore
made
ample
mencion
/
And
now
I
shal
reherce
to
you
here
after
of
th
accidentes
&
of
the
faytes
of
nature
&
that
shal
be
short
/
for
god
created
nature
altherfirst
.
&
tofore
he
created
ony
other
thynge
that
apperteyned
to
the
world
.
&
we
ought
to
fore
all
other
werke
saye
&
declare
what
she
is
/
for
to
deuyse
after
&
descryue
of
the
world
/
For
the
firmament
torneth
&
meueth
by
nature
/
&
in
lyke
wyse
do
all
the
thinges
that
haue
meuyng
/
Nature
meueth
the
sterres
&
maketh
them
to
shyne
&
growe
&
also
may
anoye
&
greue
as
moche
as
she
wylle
.
and
by
cause
alle
men
vnderstonde
not
wel
what
this
foloweth
in
substaunce
/
we
shal
declare
a
lytyl
our
matere
a
longe
/
for
to
gyue
the
better
vndestondyng
what
nature
is
/
&
how
she
werketh
to
th
ende
that
more
fully
ye
may
compryse
the
facion
of
the
world
by
this
that
herafter
shal
be
to
you
declared
.
yf
ye
wyl
well
vnderstande
the
resons
/
And
therfore
gyue
ye
dylygence
for
to
compryse
them
&
wel
to
reteyne
them
/
¶
Here
foloweth
of
nature
/
how
she
werketh
&
what
she
is
¶
Capitulo
/
xiiijo.
OVre
lord
god
created
alther
first
nature
/
for
she
is
the
thinge
by
whiche
all
creatures
&
other
werkes
haue
dured
&
lyue
what
someuer
they
bee
ordeyned
of
god
vnder
the
heuen
/
wythout
nature
may
nothinge
growe
/
And
by
her
haue
all
thynges
created
lyf
/
&
therfore
behoueth
nature
to
be
the
firste
/
For
she
noryssheth
and
entertieneth
all
creatures
.
&
habondonneth
her self
where
it
pleseth
the
creator
or
maker
/
Nature
werkyth
in
lyke
wyse
whan
she
is
employed
.
as
doth
the
axe
of
a
carpenter
.
whan
he
employeth
it
in
his
werke
.
For
the
axe
doth
nothynge
but
cutte
.
And
he
that
holdeth
it
addressyth
it
to
what
parte
he
wylle
so
that
in
th
ende
by
the
axe
the
werke
is
achieuyd
and
made
after
th
entente
of
the
werker
.
right
so
nature
maketh
redy
and
habandonneth
where
as
god
wyll
For
alle
thinges
ben
made
by
her
.
&
entiertiened
as
god
wylle
make
them
/
&
she
werketh
after
this
in
suche
manere
.
that
yf
she
lacke
on
one
syde
she
recouerith
it
on
that
other
nature
formeth
nothyng
in
vayn
/
But
she
werketh
in
suche
maner
that
she
taketh
away
fro
nothyng
his
playn
/
For
her
werke
is
alway
hool
after
that
she
fyndeth
matere
/
be
i●
in
persones
or
in
beestes
/
Thenne
ben
her
werkes
aboue
all
other
to
be
recomended
as
she
that
doth
nothyng
that
in
ony
wyse
may
be
contrarye
to
god
/
But
where
as
ma●er
lac●keth
she
leueth
to
werke
/
&
alleway
somoche
ther
is
more
of
mater
somoche
more
she
werketh
.
as
men
see
of
somme
beestis
.
of
whiche
somme
haue
two
heedes
&
vj
feet
/
or
it
hath
a
membre
lasse
than
he
ought
to
haue
.
of
whiche
he
abydeth
wythout
veray
fourme
naturell
/
&
many
be
called
therfor
a
monstre
.
also
men
see
otherwhile
some
that
almost
lacke
all
&
other
that
haue
plente
&
habondaunce
in
their
faites
all
in
lyke
wyse
falleth
ofte
&
is
seen
happen
vpon
some
men
the
whiche
whan
they
ben
born
/
they
haue
vj
fyngres
on
one
hand
/
&
other
that
haue
one
or
ij
or
iij
lasse
than
they
shold
haue
/
or
them
lacketh
an
hole
membre
/
by
whiche
they
be
of
lasse
valewe
of
that
/
that
apperteyneth
to
the
world
&
in
an
other
shal
be
so
grete
habondaunce
of
nature
or
matere
in
body
or
in
membre
that
he
hath
other
thing
than
forme
humayn
setteth
/
for
hym
lacketh
a
foot
or
a
honde
/
Or
he
shal
be
born
somtyme
more
or
lasse
/
or
he
shal
haue
a
legge
more
lenger
or
shorter
or
an
arme
than
the
other
.
yet
ther
is
another
thinge
whiche
ought
not
to
be
forgoten
.
For
that
one
shal
be
born
black
or
broun
.
&
that
other
whyte
.
one
grete
and
another
lytyll
.
that
one
shal
happen
to
be
wyse
and
dyscrete
&
that
other
folissh
or
shrewyssh
some
be
wise
&
sadde
in
their
yongthe
.
&
in
their
age
ben
ofte
folissh
some
be
soles
yong
&
olde
/
And
other
ben
wyse
alle
their
lyff
yong
&
olde
somme
be
fatte
/
&
some
be
lene
.
somme
ben
se●k
&
some
ben
hoole
some
be
sklendre
.
&
some
be
thyk
some
be
harde
&
rude
/
and
some
be
softe
&
tendre
some
be
slowe
&
some
be
hasty
some
be
hardy
&
some
be
cowardys
.
some
be
lame
.
haltyng
&
croked
some
ben
wel
fourmed
in
all
rightis
&
poyntes
/
A
grete
man
is
ofte
euyll
made
/
and
a
lytyl
man
is
ofte
wel
made
&
auenaunt
/
for
ther
is
no
membre
but
it
be
wel
made
&
aperteynyng
to
his
body
/
A
fair
childe
oftymes
in
his
growyng
becometh
fowl
/
Some
wyl
haue
their
wylles
/
&
other
desyre
it
but
lytyl
.
euerich
hath
his
talente
&
his
apetyte
.
a
lytyl
man
engendreth
ofte
a
grete
man
/
&
a
grete
man
ofte
getyth
a
lityl
one
▪
a
lytyl
man
otherwhile
empriseth
to
do
a
grete
thing
that
right
a
grete
man
wyl
not
emprise
/
Some
deye
lightly
&
other
lyue
longe
/
&
some
lyue
aslonge
tyl
age
make
them
to
gyue
ouer
the
world
/
after
that
/
that
nature
endureth
to
them
by
the
wylle
of
god
.
also
it
is
seen
ofte
emōgemen
that
some
entende
to
clergye
.
&
other
gyue
them
to
other
style
of
science
&
crafte
as
of
carpenter
mason
smyth
or
ony
other
crafte
in
whiche
he
employed
his
tyme
.
For
euery
man
gyueth
hym self
gladly
to
that
whiche
his
entendement
is
enclyned
to
&
to
other
crafte
or
science
than
nature
&
vnderstondyng
gyueth
hym
to
/
he
shal
neuer
perfyghtly
vnderstonde
ne
so
wel
meddle
wyth
all
as
he
shold
to
that
whiche
his
propre
nature
gyueth
hym
to
/
ther
ben
yet
other
maner
of
people
that
sette
and
gyue
them self
to
do
many
thynges
that
other
may
not
ne
can
not
do
.
for
asmoche
as
their
nature
hath
not
gyuen
it
to
them
/
for
some
pretende
to
hye
estates
&
grete
richesses
/
&
other
ben
content
wyth
lityl
estate
.
&
it
happeth
ofte
that
a
man
cometh
to
that
where
he
pretendeth
&
other
can
not
come
therto
.
but
torneth
contrarye
to
them
&
to
their
dommage
/
&
ofte
wyth
grete
payne
may
they
come
to
their
aboue
/
of
the
thing
that
they
wold
accomplysshe
.
&
other
doo
&
make
plente
of
thynges
.
that
some
can
not
ne
may
not
doo
ne
make
/
For
in
the
persones
ben
so
many
dyuersetees
and
facions
not
lyke
and
of
wylles
that
men
shal
not
finde
in
ony
contree
of
the
world
two
men
that
parfyghtly
be
lyke
/
who
ferre
they
can
seche
/
but
that
they
be
dyuerse
in
some
cas.
or
of
body
or
of
membres
or
of
entendement
or
of
the
vysage
or
of
their
sayngis
or
of
their
faytes
or
dedes
/
For
the
puyssaunce
of
nature
is
so
diuerse
/
that
ther
is
nothyng
that
hath
growyng
but
that
she
hath
vpon
it
myght
in
suche
wyse
that
she
gyueth
to
one
somme
thyng
that
another
hath
not
in
hym
/
how
be
it
that
noman
can
perceyue
ony
dystaunce
/
Suche
is
the
vertu
of
nature
where
plente
of
clerkes
haue
somtyme
sette
their
entendement
&
cure
and
haue
strongely
laboured
to
th
ende
that
they
myght
better
declare
the
fayte
&
puissance
of
nature
/
And
first
of
all
saith
Plato
whiche
was
a
man
of
grete
renomme
/
that
nature
is
an
ouer
puyssaunce
or
myght
in
thynges
that
she
maketh
to
growe
lyke
by
lyke
after
that
/
that
euerych
may
bee
.
and
this
may
be
vnderstande
by
one
man
that
engendreth
another
.
and
by
beestes
by
plantes
&
by
sedes
the
whiche
after
their
semblaunces
growe
&
aftyr
their
facion
.
And
lo
this
is
that
that
the
wyse
platon
saith
whiche
was
a
grete
clerke
/
After
hym
sayth
aristole
/
that
this
was
a
yefte
comen
fro
the
hye
prynce
.
Whan
he
gaf
vertu
to
the
firmament
&
to
the
sterres
for
to
meue
&
to
be
/
And
that
wythout
god
suche
power
ne
myght
not
be
gyuen
/
as
the
thynges
that
haue
power
to
remeue
to
bee
&
to
meue
/
Aristotle
that
sayth
this
studied
in
many
a
booke
treatyng
of
nature
.
Many
other
philosophers
ther
were
that
sayd
that
nature
proceded
of
vertues
of
hete
whiche
causeth
all
thynges
to
growe
&
nourisshe
.
But
for
this
present
tyme
I
passe
ouer
for
to
speke
of
other
matere
Tho
philosophers
ensiewen
better
plato
than
Arystotle
.
Thus
sayd
they
that
them
semeth
.
&
they
spack
so
hye
lyke
as
afore
is
said
.
that
fewe
clerkes
myght
atteyne
to
come
therto
/
and
for
to
abredge
it
.
he
is
not
that
myght
parfyghtly
knowe
what
it
is
/
sauf
god
that
al
knoweth
&
that
all
seeth
/
And
that
first
wold
establysshe
for
taccomplyssh
all
thynges
/
herby
may
well
be
knowen
that
god
is
of
moche
grete
puyssaunce
/
And
it
is
of
hym
a
right
grete
thynge
whan
he
of
nought
&
wythout
trauayll
created
and
fourmed
so
excellent
a
thinge
&
so
hye
&
noble
awerke
.
And
therfore
wold
he
hym self
create
&
make
man
to
the
ende
that
he
myght
be
so
myghty
&
haue
suche
wytte
&
vnderstandyng
in
hym self
that
he
knewe
by
nature
that
whiche
myght
greue
hym
in
his
sowle
.
&
lyue
vnto
our
lord
.
for
yf
he
wylle
Iustely
&
rightfully
conduyte
hym self
.
he
may
well
brynge
his
herte
to
that
.
that
nature
shal
not
mowe
greue
hym
in
no
manere
.
And
therfore
were
founden
the
vij
sciences
or
artes
.
For
to
take
away
the
euyll
thoughtes
that
myght
brynge
a
man
to
the
deth
.
whiche
they
may
destroye
by
the
sciences
.
And
thus
may
one
chaunge
his
euyl
estate
/
by
the
techynges
of
a
good
maystre
.
and
therfore
it
is
good
for
to
haunte
emonge
the
vertuous
men
/
For
ther
men
may
lerne
&
prouffyte
in
dyuerse
maners
.
Thus
thenne
is
he
wyse
that
is
prudent
in
suche
manere
that
after
his
deth
he
hath
the
better
/
and
that
god
receyueth
hym
in
gree
Thus
than
he
shal
haue
doon
more
for
his
owen
prouffyt
than
for
an
other
.
This
knewe
alle
men
certaynly
.
For
he
shall
resseyue
alle
the
wee
l
.
And
moche
is
he
a
fooll
that
somoche
louy●
his
body
that
he
forgeteth
to
saue
his
sowle
.
Whiche
god
hath
lente
to
hym
pure
and
clene
to
th
ende
that
he
shold
rendre
it
suche
agayn
at
his
deth
.
And
that
he
gouerne
hym
not
in
suche
wyse
that
by
hys
culpe
and
defawte
defowle
hym
in
synnes
/
he
that
so
conduyteth
hym self
doth
in
lyke
wyse
as
the
euyll
seruaunt
dyde
/
to
whom
the
maystre
delyuerd
his
besauntes
for
to
multyplye
in
good
But
he
dyde
not
iustly
as
he
that
was
of
euyll
fayth
wherfore
the
maystre
seeyng
the
vntrouth
of
hym
chaced
hym
away
fro
hym
And
euer
after
he
had
shame
&
reproche
lyke
as
the
gospel
wytnesseth
&
to
vs
wherceth
/
Alle
in
lykewyse
shal
it
be
of
them
that
leue
the
good
grayn
/
for
the
chaff
/
these
ben
they
that
suffre
their
soules
to
perisshe
for
the
playsance
of
their
bodyes
/
of
whiche
alle
euylles
come
to
them
herwyth
for
this
present
I
leue
the
declaracion
of
the
vij
sciences
and
of
nature
/
&
purpose
by
the
grace
of
god
to
deuyse
the
facion
of
the
world
how
it
is
by
nature
made
&
pourtrayed
of
god
/
whiche
of
one
onely
wylle
created
and
formed
the
world
and
alle
that
is
therof
appendant
.
Now
entende
ye
to
this
that
we
saye
to
yow
/
¶
Of
the
fourme
of
the
firmament
Capitulo
/
xvᵒ.
GOd
fourmed
the
world
alle
rounde
.
lyke
as
is
a
pelette
/
the
whiche
is
all
round
.
and
he
made
the
heuen
all
rounde
whiche
enuyroneth
and
goth
rounde
aboute
the
erthe
on
alle
parties
hooly
wythout
ony
defaulte
alle
in
lyke
wyse
as
the
shelle
of
an
egge
that
enuyronneth
the
whytte
all
aboute
.
¶
And
so
the
heuen
goth
rounde
aboute
an
ayer
/
whiche
is
aboue
thayer
the
whiche
in
latyn
is
called
Hester
/
this
is
as
moche
to
saye
as
pure
ayer
and
clene
/
¶
For
it
was
made
of
pure
and
of
clere
purete
/
This
ayer
shyneth
nyght
and
daye
of
resplenduer
perpetuel
/
And
is
so
clere
and
shynyng
that
yf
a
man
were
abydyng
in
that
parte
/
he
shold
see
alle
one
thynge
and
other
And
alle
that
is
fro
on
ende
to
the
other
also
lyghtly
or
more
as
a
man
shold
doo
here
byneth
vpon
the
erthe
ther
only
lengthe
of
a
foot
or
lasse
yet
yf
he
had
nede
.
Alle
in
lyke
wyse
I
saye
to
yow
.
who
that
were
there
he
myght
see
al
aboute
hym
aswell
ferre
as
nyghe
.
the
ayer
is
so
clere
&
nette
/
Of
this
hester
th
angels
taken
their
bodies
and
their
wynges
/
whan
our
lord
god
sendeth
them
in
message
hether
lowe
in
to
th
erthe
to
his
frendes
.
Whan
he
wyll
shewe
to
them
ony
thynge
.
And
therfore
seme
they
to
be
so
clere
to
synfull
men
in
this
world
/
that
their
eyen
may
not
suffre
the
resplendour
ne
beholde
the
grete
clerenes
as
they
that
ben
ful
of
obscurte
and
derknes
/
that
is
to
saye
of
synnes
and
of
inyquytees
of
whiche
they
ben
replenesshid
/
And
it
happeth
oftymes
.
that
whan
angels
ben
comen
to
ony
man
in
ony
place
by
the
wyll
of
god
for
to
saye
and
shewe
their
messaye
/
that
whiles
th
angele
speketh
to
hym
He
falleth
to
grounde
as
he
were
a
slepe
or
in
a
traunce
/
and
hym
semeth
he
hereth
not
the
worde
of
th
angele
but
as
he
dremed
/
And
is
muet
wythout
spekyng
/
vnto
the
tyme
that
th
angele
repayreth
agayn
.
Thenne
whan
he
is
awaked
/
and
comen
agayn
to
hym self
/
he
remembryd
well
the
sayeng
of
th
angele
/
and
what
he
hadde
shewd
to
hym
.
Thus
I
saye
you
for
trouthe
that
no
bodyly
man
.
may
not
susteyne
for
to
see
hym
in
no
manere
/
for
so
moche
as
a
man
is
made
of
heuy
matere
/
Ne
no
byrde
ne
fowle
be
he
neuer
so
stronge
ne
so
well
fleyng
may
not
suffre
to
be
there
.
but
that
hym
behoueth
to
come
doun
as
sone
as
a
stone
.
tyl
that
he
come
in
to
thayer
where
he
may
repryse
his
fleyng
/
yf
he
were
not
abasshyd
to
descende
.
for
there
may
nothyng
abyde
.
but
yf
it
be
thynge
espirytuell
/
ne
may
not
lyue
there
/
For
nomore
than
the
fysshe
may
lyue
in
this
ayer
where
we
ben
in
ne
susteyne
hym
/
but
right
soone
muste
dye
/
and
shortely
perysshe
.
but
yf
he
be
contynuelly
nouryssed
in
the
water
.
All
in
lykewyse
I
saye
you
of
vs
/
For
we
may
not
meue
in
this
ayer
perpetuell
ne
lyue
ne
dwelle
there
as
longe
as
we
haue
the
body
mortall
/
¶
How
the
four
Elementes
ben
sette
/
Capitulo
/
xvjo.
THis
clerenesse
of
whiche
we
haue
spoken
.
whiche
is
callyd
ayer
spyrytuell
/
And
where
the
angels
take
their
araye
and
atourement
enuyronneth
all
aboute
the
worlde
/
the
foure
elementis
whiche
god
created
and
sette
that
one
wyth
in
that
other
/
¶
Of
whiche
that
one
is
the
ffyre
/
The
seconde
is
thayer
.
The
thyrde
is
the
water
.
And
the
fourthe
is
th
erthe
/
Of
whiche
that
one
is
fastned
in
that
other
.
And
that
one
susteyned
that
other
in
suche
maner
as
th
erthe
holdeth
hym
in
the
myddle
.
The
fyre
whiche
is
the
firste
/
encloseth
this
ayer
/
in
whiche
we
bee
/
And
this
ayer
encloseth
the
water
after
the
whiche
holdeth
hym
all
aboute
the
erthe
.
Alle
in
lyke
wyse
as
is
seen
of
an
egge
and
as
the
whyte
encloseth
the
yolke
/
And
in
the
myddle
of
the
yolke
is
also
as
it
were
a
drope
of
grece
whiche
holdeth
on
no
parte
/
And
the
drope
of
grece
whiche
is
in
the
myddle
/
holdeth
on
neyther
parte
/
By
suche
and
semblable
regard
is
the
erthe
sette
in
the
myddle
of
heuen
so
iuste
and
so
egally
.
that
as
fer
is
the
erthe
fro
heuen
fro
aboue
as
fro
bynethe
For
whersomeuer
thou
be
vpon
th
erthe
thou
art
lyke
ferre
fro
heuen
.
lyke
as
ye
may
see
the
poynt
of
a
compas
whiche
is
sette
in
the
myddle
of
the
cercle
/
that
is
to
saye
.
that
it
is
sette
in
the
lowest
place
/
For
of
alle
fourmes
that
be
made
in
the
compaas
/
alway
the
poynt
is
lowest
in
the
myddle
/
And
thus
ben
the
foure
Elementes
sette
that
one
wythin
that
other
so
that
the
erthe
is
alway
in
the
myddle
/
For
as
moche
space
is
alway
the
heuen
from
vnder
erthe
as
it
appiereth
from
a
boue
This
fygure
folowyng
on
that
other
side
of
the
leef
sheweth
the
understanding
therof
.
and
deuyseth
it
playnly
/
and
therfore
ye
may
take
hede
therto
/
¶
How
the
erthe
holdeth
her
right
in
the
myddle
of
the
worlde
Capitulo
.
xvijo.
FOr
as
moche
as
th
erthe
is
heuy
more
than
ony
other
of
thelementis
/
therfore
she
holdeth
her
more
in
the
myddle
.
and
that
/
whiche
is
most
heuy
abydeth
aboute
her
/
for
the
thynge
/
whiche
most
weyeth
.
draweth
most
lowest
/
And
alle
that
is
heuy
draweth
therto
/
And
therfore
behoueth
vs
to
Ioyne
to
the
erthe
/
and
alle
that
is
extrayt
of
th
erthe
/
yf
so
were
/
&
myght
so
happene
/
that
ther
were
nothing
vpon
th
erthe
/
watre
ne
other
thynge
that
letted
and
trobled
the
waye
.
what
someuer
pate
that
a
man
wold
he
myght
goo
round
aboute
th
erthe
/
were
it
man
or
beeste
aboue
and
vnder
.
whiche
parte
that
he
wold
lyke
as
a
flye
goth
round
aboute
a
round
apple
In
lyke
wyse
myght
a
man
goo
rounde
aboute
th
erthe
as
ferre
as
th
erthe
dureth
by
nature
.
alle
aboute
so
that
he
sheld
come
vnder
vs
/
And
it
shold
seme
to
hym
that
we
were
vnder
hym
/
lyke
as
to
vs
he
shold
seme
vnder
vs
for
he
shold
holde
his
feet
ayenst
oure
/
And
the
heed
towad
heuen
/
no
more
ne
lasse
as
we
doo
here
and
the
feet
toward
th
erthe
.
And
yf
he
wente
alway
forth
his
way
to
fore
hym
he
shold
goo
so
ferre
that
he
shold
come
agayn
to
the
place
fro
whens
he
first
departed
.
And
yf
it
were
so
that
by
aduenture
two
men
departed
that
one
fro
that
other
And
that
one
went
alleway
toward
the
eest
/
&
that
other
toward
the
weste
/
so
that
bothe
two
wente
egally
/
it
behoued
that
they
shold
mete
agayn
in
the
opposite
place
fro
where
as
they
departed
.
And
bothe
two
shold
come
agayn
to
the
place
.
fro
whens
they
meued
first
/
For
thenne
had
that
one
and
that
other
go
on
rounde
aboute
the
erthe
aboue
and
vnder
/
lyke
rounde
aboute
a
whele
that
were
stylle
on
th
erthe
in
lyke
wyse
shold
they
goo
aboute
th
erthe
.
as
they
that
contynuelly
drewe
them
right
toward
the
myddle
of
th
erthe
for
she
fastneth
all
heuy
thing
toward
her
/
&
that
most
weyeth
most
draweth
&
most
ner
holdeth
toward
the
myddle
/
For
who
moche
depper
one
delueth
in
th
erthe
.
so
moche
heuyer
shal
he
fynde
it
&
for
to
vnderstonde
this
that
j
haue
deuysed
to
you
here
to fore
of
the
goynges
of
the
flies
aboute
th
apple
.
&
of
the
men
aboute
th
erthe
In
like
wyse
maye
ye
see
all
the
manere
&
facion
by
thyse
two
figures
the
whiche
ben
here
to
you
represented
and
shewde
alle
entierly
/
dij
.
BBut
for
to
vnderstonde
the
better
&
more
clerly
conceyue
/
ye
may
vnderstande
by
another
ensample
yf
the
erthe
were
departed
right
in
the
myddle
in
suche
wyse
that
the
heuen
myght
be
seen
thurgh
/
And
yf
one
threwe
a
stone
or
an
heuy
plomette
of
leed
that
wel
weyed
whan
it
shold
come
in
the
myddle
and
half
waye
thurgh
of
th
erthe
/
there
right
shold
it
abyde
and
holde
hym
for
it
myght
nether
goo
lower
ne
aryse
hyer
.
But
yf
it
were
that
by
the
force
of
the
grete
heyght
it
myght
by
the
myght
of
the
weyght
in
fallyng
falle
more
depper
than
the
myddle
.
but
anon
/
it
shold
aryse
agayn
in
suche
wyse
that
it
shold
abyde
in
the
myddle
of
th
erthe
/
ne
neuer
after
shold
meue
thens
/
For
thenne
shold
it
be
egally
ouerall
vnder
the
firmament
whiche
torneth
nyght
and
daye
/
And
by
the
vertue
and
myght
of
his
tornyng
nothyng
may
approche
to
it
that
is
poysant
&
heuy
/
But
wythdraweth
alway
vnder
it
/
of
whiche
ye
may
see
the
nature
and
vnderstondyng
by
this
present
fygure
.
on
that
other
syde
/
ANd
yf
ther
the
were
perced
thurgh
in
ij
places
of
whiche
that
one
hole
were
cutte
in
to
the
other
like
a
crosse
and
foure
men
stoden
ryght
at
the
foure
hedes
of
thise
ij
hooles
one
/
aboue
/
&
a nother
bineth
.
&
in
lyke
wyse
on
bothe
sydes
and
that
eche
of
them
threwe
a
stone
in
to
the
hoole
whether
it
were
grete
or
lytyl
eche
stone
shold
come
in
to
the
myddle
of
th
erthe
.
wythout
euer
to
be
remeuyd
fro
thens
.
But
yf
it
were
drawen
away
by
force
/
&
they
shold
holden
them
one
aboute
another
for
to
take
place
eueryche
in
the
myddle
of
th
erthe
&
yf
the
stones
were
of
like
weight
.
they
shold
come
therto
alle
at
one
tyme
assone
the
one
as
that
other
/
For
nature
wold
suffre
it
none
other
wyse
.
&
that
one
shold
come
ayenst
another
as
ye
may
ANd
yf
their
weyght
&
¶
playnely
see
by
this
fygure
powers
were
not
egall
fro
the
place
fro
whens
they
shold
falle
/
that
whiche
were
most
heuy
/
that
shold
sonnest
come
to
the
myddle
of
th
erthe
.
&
other
shold
be
al
aboute
her
as
this
seconde
fygure
sheweth
playnly
on
that
other
syde
/
ANd
so
moche
may
be
caste
therin
that
the
hooles
may
be
full
lyke
as
they
were
to fore
/
as
ye
may
playnli
see
in
this
fygure
.
whiche
sheweth
to
you
the
plain
trouth
now
this
suffyseth
ynouh
herof
/
&
here
after
we
shal
speke
of
other
thynges
/
¶
What
the
roundenes
of
the
erthe
is
.
ca.
xviijo.
NOw
then
ne
plese
it
you
to
here
for
to
deuyse
playnly
to
you
how
the
erthe
is
rounde
.
Who
that
myghte
mounte
on
hye
in
thayer
&
how
that
myght
beholde
by
valeyes
&
by
playnes
the
hyenes
of
the
grete
montaynes
/
&
the
grete
&
depe
valeyes
the
grete
wawes
of
the
See
&
the
grete
flodes
they
shold
seme
lasse
t
appere
vnto
the
gretnes
of
the
erthe
than
sholde
an
heer
of
a
man
do
vpon
an
apple
.
or
vnder
his
fygure
/
For
nether
montayne
ne
valeye
.
how
someuer
hye
ne
depe
it
be
taketh
not
away
fro
th
erthe
his
roundenesse
nomore
than
the
galle
leueth
to
be
rounde
for
his
prickys
/
For
it
behoueth
the
erthe
to
be
rounde
.
For
to
amasse
the
more
people
.
and
we
shal
saye
to
you
here
after
how
the
world
muste
nedes
be
rounde
/
¶
Wherfor
god
made
the
world
al
rounde
.
Caplo.
xixᵒ.
GOd
fourmed
the
world
al
round
/
For
of
all
the
fourmes
that
be
/
of
what
dyuerse
maners
they
be
/
may
none
be
so
plenere
ne
resseyue
so
moche
by
nature
.
as
may
the
fygure
rounde
.
For
that
is
the
most
ample
of
alle
fygures
that
ye
may
take
example
by
.
For
ther
is
none
so
wyse
ne
so
subtil
in
all
thinges
ne
somoche
can
vnderstande
that
may
for
ony
thing
make
a
vessel
be
it
of
woode
or
of
stone
/
or
of
metal
that
may
be
so
ample
ne
that
may
holde
within
it
so
moche
in
right
quantite
as
shal
do
the
rounde
/
Ne
fygure
that
ony
may
make
may
so
sone
meue
ne
so
lyghtly
make
his
torne
to
goo
aboute
.
that
ony
man
can
vnderstande
.
but
that
it
must
take
other
place
than
this
to fore
/
sauf
only
the
rounde
whiche
may
meue
round
without
takyng
other
place
/
for
she
may
haue
non
other
than
the
first
.
Ne
passe
one
only
ligne
or
ray
fro
the
place
where
she
holdeth
her
in
wherof
ye
may
see
the
nature
by
a
fygure
squared
sette
wythin
a
rounde
or
another
which
is
not
round
And
make
them
bothe
to
torne
.
the
corners
of
them
that
ben
not
round
shal
take
dyuerce
places
that
the
rounde
secheth
not
/
And
that
may
ye
see
by
thyse
iij.
fygures
in
one
whiche
ben
here
/
of
whiche
that
one
is
round
all
aboute
&
that
other
tweyne
ye
may
see
squared
/
YEt
is
ther
another
thynge
that
ther
is
no
thyng
vnder
heuen
enclosed
of
what
dyuerse
facion
it
be
/
that
may
so
lyghtly
meue
by
nature
as
may
the
rounde
/
And
therfore
god
made
the
worlde
rounde
.
to
this
ende
that
it
myght
best
be
fylled
on
all
partyes
For
he
wyl
leue
nothinge
voyde
/
and
wyll
that
it
torne
day
and
nyght
For
it
behoueth
to
haue
meuyng
on
the
heuen
.
whiche
maketh
alle
to
meue
For
alle
meuynges
come
fro
heuen
.
therfor
it
behoueth
lyghtly
and
swyftly
to
meue
.
And
wythout
it
ther
is
nothyng
may
meue
/
¶
Of
the
meuynges
of
heuen
and
of
the
vij
planetes
&
of
the
lytylnes
of
th
erthe
vnto
the
regarde
of
heuen
.
Caplo.
xx
OWr
lord
god
gaf
meuyng
vnto
the
heuen
/
whiche
goth
so
swyftly
and
so
appertly
/
that
noman
can
compryse
in
his
thought
.
but
it
semeth
not
to
vs
for
his
gretenes
/
no
more
than
it
shold
seme
to
a
man
.
yf
he
sawe
fro
ferre
an
horse
rennyng
vpon
a
grete
montayne
it
shold
not
seme
to
hym
that
he
wente
ne
onely
paas
/
And
for
somoche
as
he
sholde
be
most
ferre
fro
hym
somoche
the
lasse
/
sholde
he
seme
to
goo
/
And
the
heuen
is
so
moche
hye
and
ferre
aboue
vs
that
yf
a
stone
were
in
thayer
as
hye
as
the
sterres
be
/
And
were
the
most
heuyest
of
alle
the
world
of
leed
or
of
metall
/
And
began
to
falle
fro
an
hye
aboue
this
thyng
is
proued
and
knowen
.
That
it
shold
not
come
to
th
erthe
tyl
th
ende
of
an
hondred
yere
so
moche
and
ferre
is
the
heuen
fro
vs
.
The
whiche
is
so
grete
.
that
alle
the
erthe
rounde
aboute
hath
nothyng
of
gretenes
ayest
the
heuen
nomore
than
hath
the
poynt
or
pricke
in
the
myddle
of
the
most
grete
compaas
that
may
be
ne
to
the
grettest
cercle
that
may
be
made
on
th
erthe
/
And
yf
a
man
were
aboue
in
heuen
/
and
behelde
and
loked
here
doun
in
the
erthe
/
And
that
alle
the
erthe
were
brennynge
all
in
cooles
flammyng
&
lyghted
.
it
shold
seme
to
hym
more
lytyll
/
than
the
lest
sterre
/
that
is
aboue
semeth
to
vs
here
in
th
erthe
/
thawh
we
were
on
a
montayne
or
in
a
valeye
/
and
therfore
it
may
well
be
knowen
.
that
the
heuen
muste
lyghtly
meue
.
whan
it
maketh
his
torne
&
goth
round
aboute
th
erthe
in
a
day
&
a
nyght
/
lyke
as
we
may
apperceyue
by
the
sonne
/
that
men
see
in
the
mornyng
arise
in
th
oryent
or
in
the
eest
/
&
goth
doun
in
the
west
/
&
on
the
morn
erly
we
see
hym
come
agayn
in
the
eest
/
For
thenne
he
hath
perfourmed
his
cours
round
aboute
th
erth
.
whiche
we
calle
a
day
naturel
/
the
whiche
conteyneth
in
hym
day
&
nyght
Thus
goth
and
cometh
the
sonne
the
whiche
neuer
shal
haue
reste
/
ne
neuer
shal
fynysshe
to
goo
wyth
the
heuen
.
lyke
as
the
nayle
that
is
fyxed
in
the
whele
.
the
whiche
torneth
whan
she
torneth
.
But
by
cause
that
it
hath
meuyng
ayenst
the
cours
or
tornynge
of
the
fyrmament
/
¶
We
shal
saye
to
yow
another
reson
/
yf
a
flye
wente
rounde
aboute
a
whele
that
went
rounde
itself
.
And
that
the
flye
wente
ayenst
it
/
The
whele
shold
brynge
the
flye
wyth
her
/
And
so
shold
it
falle
that
the
whele
shold
haue
made
many
tornes
/
whylis
that
the
flye
shold
make
one
torne
.
and
er
she
had
gon
rounde
aboute
the
whele
vnto
the
first
poynt
/
So
ye
muste
vnderstonde
that
in
suche
manere
gon
the
mone
&
the
sonne
.
by
away
that
is
comune
to
the
vij
planetes
that
ben
on
the
heuen
/
whiche
alle
goo
by
the
same
way
alleway
toward
the
eest
/
and
the
heuen
torneth
toward
the
weste
.
lyke
as
nature
ledeth
hym
/
Thus
&
herwyth
the
first
partie
taketh
his
ende
of
this
present
booke
.
And
shal
folowe
for
to
deuyse
of
the
seconde
partye
of
th
erthe
&
of
the
fourme
of
the
firmament
/
¶
Thus
endeth
the
first
partye
of
this
present
booke
/
¶
Here
after
bygynneth
the
seconde
partye
of
this
present
book
.
and
declareth
how
th
erthe
is
deuyded
and
what
partie
she
is
enhabyted
/
Capitulo
primo
.
SYth
that
the
erthe
is
so
lytyl
as
ye
haue
herd
here
to fore
deuysed
lytyl
maye
we
preyse
the
goodes
therof
vnto
the
regard
of
heuen
.
lasse
than
men
do
donge
ayenst
fin
gold
.
or
ayenst
precyous
stones
/
how
wel
that
in
th
ende
that
one
and
that
other
shal
be
of
no
walewe
.
but
for
somoche
as
we
beyng
in
this
world
vs
semeth
that
the
erthe
is
moche
grete
we
haue
declared
to
you
as
wel
the
roundenesse
as
the
gretenes
to
our
power
&
that
shortly
.
syth
we
haue
vnderstande
how
the
erthe
is
rounde
on
alle
partes
as
an
apple
.
Neuertheles
it
is
not
enhabyted
in
all
parties
whiche
is
well
knowen
.
of
no
people
of
the
world
/
And
it
is
not
enhabyted
but
in
one
quarter
only
lyke
as
the
philosophers
haue
enserched
/
whiche
put
for
to
knowe
it
grete
trauayll
&
estudye
and
therfore
we
shal
deuyse
it
al
aboute
in
foure
parties
/
of
whiche
ye
may
take
ensample
by
an
apple
/
whiche
shal
be
parted
by
the
myddle
in
foure
parties
right
of
lengthe
&
of
brede
by
the
core
/
and
pare
a
quarter
.
&
stratche
the
parell
for
to
se
&
vnderstonde
the
facion
in
playn
erthe
or
in
your
hande
/
ANd
in
the
ende
of
this
lyne
/
Lyke
as
she
gooth
right
by
lyne
/
We
may
see
a
cyte
whiche
is
callyd
Aron
it
is
sette
in
the
myddle
of
the
world
.
and
was
made
all
rounde
ther
was
founden
first
astronomye
by
grete
studye
/
by
grete
maistrye
/
&
by
grete
dylygence
/
This
place
Aaron
is
named
the
right
mydday
as
she
that
is
sette
in
the
myddle
of
the
world
that
other
heed
of
this
lyne
.
whiche
gooth
right
toward
the
lyfte
syde
.
is
callyd
septentrion
that
is
to
saye
north
and
taketh
his
name
of
the
vij
sterres
/
and
torneth
toward
another
sterre
that
ledeth
the
maronners
by
the
see
/
In
that
other
lyne
that
is
the
myddle
/
whiche
the
south
cutteth
in
the
ende
toward
the
eest
as
the
auctours
saye
is
paradis
terrestre
.
where
adam
was
in
somtyme
This
place
is
callyd
oryent
that
is
to
saye
eest
For
fro
thens
cometh
the
sonne
whiche
maketh
the
day
aboute
the
world
.
And
that
other
heed
is
callyd
occydent
that
is
to
saye
weste
.
For
there
the
day
faylleth
and
wexith
derke
whan
the
sonne
goth
doun
there
.
thus
and
by
this
reson
be
nam●d
the
foure
parties
of
the
world
of
whiche
the
first
conteineth
the
eest
.
The
seconde
the
west
The
therde
the
south
.
And
the
fourthe
the
north
.
&
this
that
we
ens●ygne
you
ye
may
see
by
this
figure
to fore
on
that
other
syde
THyse
foure
partyes
that
I
haue
declared
to
yow
.
whiche
ben
sette
in
a
quarter
of
alle
the
erthe
of
the
world
ought
to
haue
a
rounde
fourme
/
For
rayson
and
nature
gyue
that
alle
the
worlde
be
rounde
/
¶
And
therfore
vnderstande
ye
of
this
quarter
as
it
were
alle
rounde
¶
Now
make
we
thenne
of
this
quarter
a
cercle
that
is
al
round
&
al
h●ol
/
&
late
vs
sette
in
the
middle
of
this
lyne
that
sheweth
the
eest
&
the
west
for
to
sette
the
parties
in
her
right
as
this
presente
figure
that
here
is
representeth
sheweth
to
you
plainli
AFter
late
eche
partye
be
torned
toward
his
name
in
th
erthe
/
of
whiche
eche
shal
be
the
fourth
parte
/
&
this
present
fygure
is
enseygnement
and
demonstraunce
certayne
and
trewe
wythout
ony
varyacyon
ne
doubtaunce
.
¶
What
parte
of
th
erthe
is
inhabyted
Caplo.
ijo.
That
other
part
is
called
europe
.
&
taketh
his
name
of
akynge
kynge
callyd
europes
/
the
whiche
was
lord
of
this
contre
/
&
therfor
it
was
so
callyd
.
And
it
endureth
fro
the
weste
vnto
the
north
.
&
marcheth
vnto
Asie
the
grete
/
that
other
parte
is
affryque
whiche
stratcheth
fro
the
south
vnto
the
west
&
affryque
hath
his
name
of
helbe
/
&
is
as
moche
to
saye
as
born
away
lyke
as
this
figure
deuyseth
in
iij.
partyes
of
whiche
figure
this
is
the
demonstrance
/
OF
these
thre
partyes
of
the
world
here
tofore
named
holden
euerych
many
regyons
&
many
coutreees
/
of
whiche
or
at
the
leste
of
the
most
noble
partie
we
shal
declare
the
names
/
&
how
the
bestes
that
ben
there
ben
most
comynly
called
.
Thus
we
shal
saye
to
you
the
condycions
&
fourmes
of
somme
/
&
in
especial
of
them
that
ben
most
seen
by
men
/
And
first
we
shal
speke
of
the
people
of
the
contrees
/
And
after
of
the
bestes
and
fisshes
lyke
as
the
book
dyuyseth
to
vs
out
of
whiche
is
drawen
this
Mappe
mundi
/
¶
First
of
paradis
terrestre
.
and
of
the
foure
grete
flodes
that
departe
fro
thens
/
¶
Capitulo
/
iijo.
THe
fyrst
regyon
of
Asia
the
grete
is
paradys
terrestre
.
This
is
a
place
whiche
is
full
of
solace
/
of
playsances
and
of
delyces
/
so
that
none
that
is
therin
may
be
greuyd
ne
haue
none
euyll
in
no
maner
of
the
worlde
.
In
this
paradys
is
the
tree
of
lyf
/
and
who
that
had
eten
of
the
fruyt
.
he
shold
not
deye
as
longe
as
the
world
endureth
.
But
noman
lyuyng
may
come
theder
/
but
yf
our
lord
god
or
his
angele
conduyted
and
brought
hym
theder
.
For
alle
round
aboute
/
it
is
enclosed
wyw
fyre
brennyng
the
whiche
goth
flammyng
vnto
the
clowdes
Ther
wythinne
sourdeth
and
spryngeth
a
fontayne
or
welle
whiche
is
deuyded
in
to
four
flodes
/
Of
whom
that
one
is
called
vngages
that
renneth
a
longe
thurgh
the
royame
of
Inde
And
departeth
in
to
many
armes
or
braces
.
It
sourdeth
of
the
mount
that
is
called
Ortobares
/
the
whiche
is
toward
th
orient
/
and
falleth
in
to
the
see
Occyan
/
The
seconde
of
the
four
flodes
is
named
gyon
.
or
nylus
/
Whiche
entreth
in
to
th
erthe
by
an
hool
.
and
renneth
vnder
the
erthe
so
ferre
that
it
resourdeth
in
to
the
longe
see
/
whiche
enuyronneth
alle
Ethiope
so
that
it
departeth
in
to
vij
partyes
/
and
goth
rennyng
by
egypte
so
longe
that
it
cometh
and
falleth
in
to
the
grete
see
/
The
other
two
flodes
of
whiche
that
one
is
callid
Tygris
.
and
that
other
eufrates
sourden
in
hermenye
nygh
vnto
amoche
grete
montayne
whiche
is
named
partheacus
And
thyse
two
flodes
trauerse
many
grete
contrees
so
lon
tyl
they
mete
in
the
see
moyen
where
bothe
two
falle
inne
lyke
as
their
nature
requyreth
On
this
side
paradys
terrestre
alle
aboute
ben
●●ny
dyuerse
places
wythout
ony
resorte
For
none
may
dwelle
there
ne
fynde
place
to
lyue
in
/
But
there
be
plente
of
euyll
beestis
whiche
ben
fiers
and
crymynel
and
of
many
guyses
ther
ben
.
Ther
ben
geauntes
rowh
and
heery
whiche
deuoure
and
ete
alle
thyng
as
wulues
don
.
And
many
other
wylde
beestes
.
¶
Here
speketh
of
ynde
&
of
thynges
that
be
found
therin
/
Capitulo
iiijo.
AFter
comen
the
contrees
of
Inde
whiche
take
their
name
of
a
water
that
is
called
Inde
/
whiche
sourdeth
in
the
north
.
The
Indes
ben
closed
wyth
the
grete
see
that
enuyronneth
them
round
aboute
.
In
Inde
is
an
yle
named
Probane
wherin
ben
founded
ten
cytees
and
plente
of
other
townes
.
where
as
euery
yere
ben
two
somers
&
two
wynters
/
And
ben
so
attemprid
that
there
is
alway
verdure
/
&
vpon
the
trees
ben
contynuelly
flowres
l●euis
and
fruyt
And
it
is
moche
plentuous
of
gold
and
syluer
and
moche
fertyle
of
other
thynges
/
There
be
the
grete
montaynes
of
gold
and
of
precyous
stones
and
other
richesses
plente
/
but
noman
dar
approche
it
for
the
dragons
and
for
the
gryffons
wylde
whiche
haue
bodyes
of
lyons
/
fleyng
whiche
easily
bere
a
man
away
armed
and
syttyng
vpon
his
hors
Whan
he
may
sease
him
wyth
his
clawes
and
vngles
ther
ben
yet
plente
of
other
places
so
delectable
so
swete
and
so
spirituel
that
yf
a
man
were
ther
in
/
he
shold
saye
/
that
it
were
a
very
paradys
/
¶
Here
foloweth
the
dyuersitees
beyng
in
the
lande
of
Inde
Capitulo
/
vo.
THere
is
in
the
lande
of
Inde
a
right
grete
montayne
that
men
calle
mount
capyen
/
and
it
is
a
moche
grette
regyon
/
Ther
ben
a
maner
of
people
wythout
wytte
and
wythout
discrescyon
/
Whiche
the
kynge
Alysander
enclosed
therin
/
And
ben
named
goths
and
magoths
or
gog
or
magog
/
they
ete
flessh
all
rawe
be
it
men
or
wymyn
or
beestes
as
men
wood
/
mad
or
demonyacks
/
This
Inde
of
whiche
I
yow
reheree
conteyneth
xiiij
regyons
/
and
in
euerich
of
thise
regyons
ben
moche
people
/
And
also
ther
is
therin
grete
trees
and
so
hye
that
they
towche
the
cloudes
/
And
there
dwelleth
people
that
ben
horned
/
and
ar
but
two
cubites
hye
/
And
they
goon
to
gydre
in
grete
companyes
For
ofte
they
fighte
ayenst
the
cranes
/
whiche
them
assaylle
/
But
wyth
in
vij
yere
they
become
aged
&
olde
that
they
deye
for
age
/
This
people
is
callyd
pygmans
/
and
ben
as
lytyl
as
dwarfes
/
right
nygh
vnto
this
contree
groweth
pepre
alle
whytte
/
But
the
vermyne
is
there
so
grete
that
whan
thyy
wold
gadre
&
take
it
they
muste
sette
fyre
therin
for
to
dryue
away
the
vermyne
/
And
whan
it
is
so
brent
/
the
pepre
is
founden
al
blacke
soorchid
and
crispe
/
ye
ben
there
other
people
whiche
ben
callyd
groyne
and
bragman
whiche
ben
fayrer
than
they
to fore
named
/
that
for
to
saue
anothers
lyf
.
wyll
put
them
in
to
a
brennyng
fyre
/
There
is
yet
another
maner
of
peple
/
the
whiche
whan
their
faders
and
moders
or
their
other
frendes
ben
passyng
olde
&
eaged
.
they
slee
them
&
sacryfye
them
/
be
it
wrong
or
right
and
eten
their
flesshe
and
holde
them
for
meschaunt
and
nygardis
that
so
doo
not
to
their
frendes
/
For
they
holde
this
maner
emong
them
for
grete
wele
grete
worship
/
and
for
grete
largesse
/
And
therfore
eche
of
them
vse
it
/
Toward
ye●est
is
another
maner
of
people
that
worshippe
the
sonne
only
and
taketh
it
for
their
god
for
the
grete
goodes
that
come
ther
by
.
And
by
cause
that
in
alle
the
world
they
see
none
so
fayre
a
thyng
to
their
semyng
/
they
byleue
in
it
as
their
god
.
Yet
ben
ther
other
people
that
ben
all
rough
/
whiche
eten
fysshe
all
rawe
and
drynke
water
of
the
salt
see
/
Toward
this
same
contre
is
a
maner
of
people
that
ben
half
beestes
and
half
men
/
yet
ben
ther in
that
partye
other
people
whiche
haue
on
one
foot
viij
toes
.
In
thyse
contrees
is
grete
nombre
of
beestes
right
dredfull
and
terryble
/
whiche
haue
bodyes
of
men
and
heedes
of
dogges
.
And
haue
so
grete
vngles
or
clawes
that
areste
alle
that
they
can
holde
and
clothe
them
wyth
the
hydes
and
skynnes
of
bestes
.
And
haue
suche
maner
of
voys
as
barkyng
of
dogges
.
Yet
ben
ther
other
callyd
Cyclopyens
whiche
passe
by
rennyng
the
wynde
.
&
haue
only
but
one
fote
/
of
whiche
the
plante
is
so
right
longe
and
so
brode
.
that
they
couere
them
ther
wyth
fro
the
shadowe
.
whan
the
hete
cometh
ouer
sharp
on
them
/
Another
maner
people
ther
is
/
whiche
haue
only
but
one
eye
.
&
that
standeth
right
in
the
myddys
of
the
fronte
or
forhede
whiche
is
so
reed
and
so
clere
that
it
semeth
properly
fyre
brennyng
.
And
there
also
ben
founde
another
maner
of
p●ople
that
haue
the
vysage
&
the
mouth
in
the
myddle
of
their
breste
/
and
haue
one
eye
in
euery
sholdre
.
and
their
nose
hangeth
doun
to
their
mouth
/
And
haue
brestles
aboute
their
mosell
lyke
swyne
.
yet
ben
ther
founden
toward
the
ryuer
of
ganges
a
maner
of
strange
people
and
curtoys
.
whiche
haue
the
right
fygure
of
a
man
.
whiche
lyue
only
by
the
odour
and
smellyng
of
an
apple
only
/
And
yf
they
goo
ferre
in
to
ony
place
.
they
haue
nede
to
haue
the
apple
wyth
them
/
For
yf
they
fele
ony
stenche
euyll
&
stynekyng
&
haue
not
th
apple
/
they
deye
incontynent
/
¶
Of
the
serpentes
&
of
the
beestes
of
Inde
/
Ca.
vjo.
IN
Inde
ben
plente
of
serpentes
.
whiche
ben
of
suche
force
and
myght
/
that
they
deuoure
&
take
by
strengthe
the
hertes
and
buckes
.
Yet
ther
is
another
maner
beeste
whiche
is
callyd
Centyoore
whiche
hath
the
horne
of
an
herte
in
the
myddle
of
his
face
/
And
hath
the
breste
and
thyes
lyke
a
lyon
/
and
hath
grete
●eris
&
feet
lyke
an
hors
/
And
hath
a
round
mouth
/
his
mosel
is
lyke
the
heed
of
a
Bere
And
his
eyen
ben
nyghe
that
one
that
other
/
and
his
voys
is
moche
lyke
the
voys
of
a
man
/
Another
beeste
men
fynde
there
moche
fyers
.
whiche
hath
the
body
of
an
hors
/
the
heed
of
a
wylde
boor
.
and
the
tayll
of
an
Olyphaunt
.
And
he
hath
two
hornes
whiche
eueriche
is
as
longe
as
a
cubyte
Of
whiche
he
sette
that
one
vpon
his
back
whyles
he
fighteth
wyth
that
other
.
he
is
black
and
a
moche
terryble
beeste
and
meruyellous
delyuere
/
And
is
both
in
watre
&
on
the
londe
/
There
ben
also
seen
bollys
whiche
ben
al
whyte
/
They
haue
grete
hedes
.
&
their
throte
is
as
wyde
&
brode
that
it
endureth
from
that
one
eere
to
that
other
&
haue
hornes
that
remeue
aboute
hym
so
that
noman
may
tame
ne
daunte
them
Another
maner
of
beestes
ther
is
in
Inde
that
ben
callyd
mantycora
/
and
hath
visage
of
a
man
/
&
thre
huge
grete
teeth
in
his
throte
/
he
hath
eyen
lyke
a
goot
&
body
of
a
lyon
tayll
of
a
Scorpyon
and
voys
of
a
serpente
in
suche
wyse
that
by
his
swete
songe
he
draweth
to
hym
the
people
and
deuoureth
them
/
And
is
more
delyuerer
to
goo
/
than
is
a
fowle
to
flee
/
Ther
is
also
a
maner
of
Oxen
or
buefs
that
haue
their
feet
all
round
and
haue
in
the
myddle
of
their
fronte
iij
hornes
/
Yet
is
ther
auother
beeste
of
moche
fayr
corsage
or
shappe
of
body
whiche
is
called
monotheres
/
whiche
hath
the
body
of
an
hors
/
and
feet
of
an
Olyfant
/
heed
of
an
herte
and
voys
clere
and
hye
and
a
grete
tayle
/
And
hath
but
one
horne
/
whiche
is
in
the
myddle
of
his
forhede
.
whiche
is
four
foot
longe
right
and
sharpe
lyke
a
sw●rd
and
cuttyng
lyke
a
rasour
/
And
alle
that
he
atteyneth
to
fore
hym
and
towcheth
is
broken
&
cutte
/
for
trouthe
this
beeste
is
of
suche
condicion
that
by
what
someuer
engyne
he
is
taken
/
of
grete
desdayn
he
suffreth
to
be
slayn
and
deyd
/
But
he
may
not
be
taken
but
by
a
pure
vyrgyne
whiche
is
sette
to
fore
hym
where
as
he
shal
passe
/
the
whiche
muste
be
well
and
gentely
arayed
/
Thenne
cometh
the
beest
vnto
the
mayde
moche
symply
/
and
slepeth
in
her
lappe
/
and
so
he
is
taken
slepyng
/
In
Inde
ben
ther
other
beestes
grete
and
fyers
whiche
ben
of
blew
colowr
/
&
haue
clere
spottes
on
the
body
/
and
ben
so
right
stronge
and
crymynel
that
no
men
dar
approche
them
/
and
ben
named
tygris
.
&
they
renne
so
swyftly
.
and
by
so
grete
myght
that
the
hunters
may
not
escape
fro
them
in
no
wyse
.
but
yf
they
take
myrrours
of
glasse
and
caste
them
in
the
waye
where
they
shal
renne
For
the
tygris
ben
of
suche
nature
/
that
whan
they
see
their
semblaunce
they
wene
that
it
be
their
fawnes
thenne
goon
they
aboute
the
myrrours
so
longe
tyl
they
breke
the
glasse
and
see
nomore
.
in
whiche
whyle
the
hunters
escape
fro
them
that
ben
there
.
And
somtyme
it
happeth
so
of
thyse
tygres
that
they
thynke
so
longe
and
beholde
their
fygures
that
otherwhile
they
ben
taken
so
lokyng
all
quick
and
lyuyng
Yet
ben
ther
other
beestes
whiche
ben
called
castours
which
haue
this
nature
in
them
.
that
whan
they
ben
honted
for
to
be
taken
.
they
byte
wyth
their
teeth
their
owne
genytours
or
ballocks
/
and
lete
them
falle
/
and
thus
they
ghelde
them self
/
For
they
wel
knowe
.
that
for
none
other
thinge
they
be
hunted
.
Also
the●
groweth
another
beest
lyke
a
Mous
/
and
hath
a
lytyl
mouthe
and
is
named
muske
or
muskaliet
/
In
this
contree
ben
the
drye
trees
that
spake
to
Alysa
undre
the
puyssaunt
kynge
/
Another
beeste
ther
is
that
men
calle
Salemandre
whiche
is
fedde
&
nourysshed
in
the
fyre
/
This
Salemandre
bereth
wulle
/
of
whiche
is
made
cloth
and
gyrdles
that
may
not
brenne
in
the
fyre
Ther
ben
yet
myes
the
whiche
ben
as
grete
as
cattes
and
also
swyft
in
rennyng
/
Toward
th
oryent
ben
the
lyons
whiche
haue
more
strength
and
myght
.
in
their
brestes
to fore
and
in
all
their
membres
than
ony
other
beeste
haue
.
And
they
come
to
fede
their
fawnes
the
iij
day
after
they
haue
fawned
.
as
they
that
were
deed
and
ben
as
reysed
again
from
deth
&
whan
they
slepe
they
holde
their
eyen
open
&
whan
the
hunters
hunte
them
they
couer
the
traas
of
their
feet
wyth
their
taylle
/
They
shal
neuer
do
harme
ne
grief
to
man
/
but
yf
they
ben
angred
/
And
whan
they
be
assaylled
they
deffende
them
/
And
whan
he
that
kepeth
them
bete
and
chastyseth
a
lytyl
dogge
to
fore
them
/
they
fere
and
doubte
hym
lyke
as
they
knewe
hym
well
and
the
lyonesse
hath
the
first
yere
fyue
fawnes
and
euery
yere
after
folowyng
one
lasse
vnto
her
ende
so
declynyng
.
Ther
is
another
beeste
whiche
is
lytyl
/
and
is
so
terryble
and
redoubted
.
that
no
beste
dar
approche
it
.
and
by
nature
the
Lyon
doubteth
and
fleeth
from
it
/
For
of
it
sleeth
the
lyon
/
¶
In
this
partye
conuerseth
and
repayreth
another
beste
whiche
is
of
dyuerse
colours
by
spottes
whytte
black
.
grene
.
blewe
.
and
Ielow
lyke
as
it
were
paynted
/
and
is
moche
propre
and
is
called
Panthere
/
and
ther
cometh
out
of
his
mouth
so
swete
a
sauour
and
breeth
/
that
the
beestes
goo
folowyng
after
it
for
the
swetenes
of
his
body
/
sauf
the
serpent
.
to
whom
the
swete
smelle
greueth
in
suche
wyse
that
ofte
the
serpent
deyeth
/
and
whan
this
beeste
is
otherwhyle
so
fylled
and
full
of
venyson
that
he
hath
taken
and
eten
/
He
slepeth
iij
dayes
hool
wythout
a
wakyng
/
And
whan
he
awaketh
.
he
gyueth
out
of
his
mouth
so
swete
a
sauour
and
smelle
/
that
anon
the
bestes
that
fele
it
seche
hym
/
This
beest
hath
but
ones
yong
fawnes
/
And
whan
she
shal
fawne
.
she
hath
suche
destresse
and
anguyssh
that
she
breketh
wyth
her
nayles
and
renteth
her
matryce
in
suche
wyse
that
her
fawnes
come
out
.
And
neuer
after
whan
the
matryce
is
rente
and
broken
they
engendre
ne
brenge
forth
fawnes
.
Ther
is
a
maner
of
mares
that
conceyue
of
the
wynde
/
and
ben
in
a
contre
that
is
named
Capydoce
/
but
they
endure
not
but
iij
yere
/
In
this
contre
ben
the
Olyphaunts
whiche
is
a
beest
grete
stronge
and
fyghtyng
.
And
whan
the
see
their
blodshedde
to
fore
them
.
they
be
most
corageous
&
most
stronge
and
fyght
in
alle
places
and
alle
bataylles
vpon
this
olyphaunts
were
wonte
to
fyghte
the
people
of
Inde
and
of
perse
/
For
an
olyphaunt
berett
,
wel
a
tour
of
woode
vpon
his
back
fulle
of
men
of
armes
whan
it
is
wel
sette
on
&
fermely
/
And
they
haue
to
fore
them
in
maner
of
boyell
grete
and
large
/
whiche
they
ete
.
by
whiche
they
renne
on
men
/
&
haue
anon
deuoured
them
.
kynge
alysandre
whiche
was
a
good
clerke
and
prynce
of
grete
recommendacion
&
that
wente
in
to
many
contrees
for
to
serche
and
enquyre
the
aduentures
more
than
he
dyde
to
conquere
thenne
whan
he
shold
fyght
ayenst
them
that
had
taught
and
lerned
th
olyfauntes
to
fyghte
in
playn
londe
/
he
dyde
do
make
vessels
of
copper
in
fourme
of
men
/
and
dyde
do
fylle
them
wyth
fyre
brennyng
/
and
sette
them
to
fore
hym
to
fyght
ayenst
them
that
were
vpon
th
olyfauntes
/
And
whan
th
olyphauntes
caste
their
boyel
by
whiche
they
slewe
the
people
vpon
the
men
of
copper
/
feelyng
that
they
were
so
hoot
that
they
brenned
them
/
Thenne
they
that
were
so
taught
wolde
nomore
approche
tho
men
for
doubte
of
the
fyre
/
For
they
thoughte
/
that
all
men
had
ben
as
hoot
.
as
they
were
of
copper
.
whiche
were
full
of
fyre
/
And
thus
kynge
Alysander
as
a
sage
prynce
eschewed
the
paryll
and
daunger
of
thyse
olyphauntes
.
And
conquerd
this
wylde
people
/
&
in
suche
wyse
dompted
th
olyophauntes
that
they
durst
do
nomore
harme
vnto
the
men
.
The
olyphauntes
goo
moche
symply
&
accordyngly
to gydre
.
And
whan
they
mete
and
encountre
eche
other
They
bowe
their
hedes
that
one
to
that
other
lyke
as
they
entresalewed
eche
other
.
They
be
right
colde
of
nature
/
wherof
it
is
so
that
whan
one
putteth
vpon
the
tooth
of
yuorye
a
lynnen
cloth
and
brennyng
cooles
ther
vpon
the
lynnen
cloth
shal
not
brenne
/
for
assone
as
the
coole
feleth
the
cold
he
quencheth
the
yuorye
is
so
coold
.
the
tooth
of
an
olyfant
is
yuorye
/
Th
olyphaunts
haue
neuer
yong
fawnes
but
ones
in
longe
tyme
/
and
they
bere
them
two
yere
in
their
flankes
/
an
olyphaunt
lyueth
●CC
yere
/
He
doubteth
&
fereth
the
wesel
&
the
culeuure
&
dredeth
vermyne
/
yf
the
culeuure
clyue
&
be
on
the
olyphaunt
.
it
departeth
not
tyl
it
hath
slayn
hym
.
she
fawneth
her
fawnes
&
hydeth
them
where
is
no
woode
&
fawneth
in
the
water
/
For
yf
she
laye
on
th
erthe
she
shold
neuer
aryse
ne
releue
/
for
as
moche
their
bones
ben
al
hool
wythout
Ioyntes
from
the
bely
vnto
the
feet
/
&
whan
th
olyphaunt
wylle
slepe
/
he
leneth
vnto
a
tree
&
there
slepeth
stondyng
/
And
hunters
that
seche
them
and
knowe
the
trees
to
whiche
they
lene
whan
they
slepe
/
Thenne
whan
they
haue
founden
them
/
they
sawe
them
lowe
by
the
ground
almost
a
sondre
/
that
whan
the
olyphaunt
cometh
and
knoweth
nothyng
therof
and
wold
slepe
and
leneth
to
the
tree
.
and
anon
he
falleth
wyth
the
tree
vnto
the
grounde
and
may
not
releue
hym self
/
Thenne
he
begynneth
for
to
braye
crye
and
waylle
.
that
somtyme
ther
come
many
olyphauntes
to
hym
for
to
helpe
hym
/
And
whan
they
may
not
redresse
and
reyse
hym
they
crye
and
braye
and
make
a
merueyllous
sorowe
/
And
they
that
ben
most
lytyl
and
smale
goo
aboute
for
to
lyfte
and
reyse
hym
to
their
power
in
suche
wyse
that
other
while
they
lyfte
and
reyse
hym
vp
/
but
whan
they
may
not
reyse
ne
releue
hym
.
they
go
on
their
way
wayllyng
and
makyng
grete
sorowe
and
leue
hym
/
And
the
honters
that
ben
embusshed
by
.
come
and
by
their
engyns
that
they
haue
propyce
for
the
same
take
him
thus
by
this
subtylte
ben
th
olyphaunts
taken
/
wythin
the
ryuer
&
flode
of
Inde
named
Ganges
goon
the
eeles
by
grete
renges
whiche
ben
CCC
feet
long
&
ben
good
mete
to
ete
at
nede
Many
other
bestes
peryllous
&
terryble
ben
ther
in
inde
as
dragons
serpentes
&
other
dyuerse
beestes
whiche
haue
feet
heedes
/
and
taylles
dyuerse
/
Ther
ben
the
basylycocks
whiche
haue
the
fyght
so
venymous
that
they
slee
all
men
And
in
lyke
wyse
doo
they
all
fowles
&
bestes
.
he
hath
the
heed
lyke
a
cocke
and
body
of
a
serpent
/
he
is
kynge
of
alle
serpents
.
lyke
as
the
lyon
is
kynge
aboue
all
beestes
.
he
is
whytte
rayed
here
and
there
.
Ther
is
neyther
herbe
ne
fruyt
on
the
erthe
wherby
he
shal
passe
/
ne
the
trees
that
ben
planted
but
they
shal
perisshe
.
yf
he
haue
byte
or
slayn
beeste
or
other
thynge
.
Neuer
other
beste
dar
approche
it
/
Ther
is
in
this
regyon
another
maner
of
serpents
that
haue
hornes
lyke
a
shepe
/
Ther
groweth
a
beest
named
aspis
that
may
not
be
deceyuyd
ne
taken
but
by
charmyng
/
for
he
heeryth
gladly
the
sowne
/
But
assone
as
he
heeryth
the
charme
he
putteth
his
tayll
in
his
one
eere
/
and
that
other
leyeth
to
the
gronude
doubtyng
to
be
deceyuyd
by
the
charme
/
Other
serpentes
ther
be
named
Tygrys
whiche
ben
taken
alle
quyck
by
force
of
engyns
.
And
of
them
men
make
triacle
/
Whyche
deffeteth
and
taketh
away
other
venym
/
¶
Other
wormes
ther
growe
there
whiche
haue
two
armes
so
longe
and
so
dyuerse
that
they
bete
and
slee
the
Olyphaunts
¶
This
worme
lyueth
ryght
longe
/
And
whan
he
is
olde
and
feleth
hym
feble
/
he
consumeth
hym self
by
fastynge
/
And
suffreth
to
be
enfamyned
so
ouer
moche
that
lytyl
abydeth
of
his
body
/
¶
Thenne
he
goth
in
to
a
lytyll
hooll
of
somme
stone
whiche
is
wel
strayt
and
thenne
he
putteth
hym self
out
wyth
so
ryght
grete
distresse
/
that
his
shynne
remayneth
all
hooll
.
¶
And
ther
groweth
and
cometh
on
hym
another
skynne
/
And
thus
reneweth
his
age
as
a
wyse
beeste
that
he
is
/
There
ben
plente
of
other
serpents
that
haue
many
precyous
stones
in
the
hedes
and
in
the
eyen
/
the
whiche
ben
of
right
grete
vertue
for
them
that
myght
haue
them
and
●ere
them
/
Now
we
shal
deuyse
to
yow
of
stones
that
growe
in
Inde
&
ben
there
founden
/
¶
Here
foloweth
of
precious
stones
and
of
their
vertue
whiche
growe
in
Inde
/
Capitulo
vij
IN
Inde
groweth
the
admond
stone
/
whiche
is
a
stone
charged
wyth
many
grete
vertues
/
she
by
her
nature
draweth
to
her
yron
and
maketh
it
to
cleue
to
it
so
fast
that
it
may
vnneth
be
taken
fro
it
for
the
vertu
that
is
in
it
The
dyamond
groweth
also
in
Inde
al
hool
/
&
it
may
not
be
broken
in
pieces
ne
vsed
/
but
it
be
by
the
vertue
of
the
blod
of
a
ghoot
alle
hoot
/
yet
growe
there
other
stones
of
many
diuerse
facions
&
vertues
the
whiche
ben
of
moche
noble
recomendacion
renommee
and
of
moche
fayr
vertue
/
&
first
I
shal
speke
of
the
Emerawde
whiche
is
so
playsaunt
to
the
eye
/
that
it
reconforteth
all
the
sight
of
hym
that
it
beholdeth
In
lyke
wyse
groweth
in
Inde
an
other
stone
the
whiche
is
callyd
carboncle
.
the
whiche
by
nyght
or
yf
it
be
in
derke
place
&
obscure
/
it
shyneth
as
a
cole
brennyng
/
Also
ther
growe
Saphyres
whiche
by
their
vertue
take
away
the
swellyng
&
redenes
of
the
eyen
/
Ther
groweth
also
a
stone
callyd
topace
whiche
is
of
colour
lyke
vnto
fyn
golde
and
also
is
of
hye
vertue
/
yet
also
ther
growe
there
rubyes
/
whiche
is
a
stone
moche
preysed
and
loued
emong
the
people
/
&
is
also
of
right
more
grete
valewre
and
vertue
than
is
the
topace
/
he
reioyceth
the
sight
and
conforteth
it
moche
and
specyally
to
them
that
bere
it
yet
ben
ther
also
in
Inde
plente
of
other
maner
stones
whiche
haue
in
them
moche
fair
vertues
and
bountes
/
And
who
that
wyl
more
knowe
of
their
vertues
&
bountes
maye
rede
in
the
book
called
lapydare
in
whiche
he
shal
knowe
the
names
&
vertues
/
For
now
at
this
tyme
we
shal
make
an
ende
of
this
mater
/
for
to
recounte
yow
the
contrees
&
royaomes
of
Inde
/
¶
Here
foloweth
of
the
contrees
and
Royames
of
Inde
Capitulo
/
viijo.
IN
Inde
is
plente
of
grete
contres
merueyllously
.
whiche
ben
peopled
wyth
dyuerse
maners
of
people
and
of
grete
plente
of
bestes
of
many
dyuerse
facions
and
condicions
/
Emonge
all
other
ther
is
a
contree
named
Perse
and
conteyneth
xxxiij
regyons
of
whiche
the
first
is
the
royame
of
Perse.
where
as
a
science
called
.
Nygromancye
was
first
founden
whiche
science
constrayneth
the
enemye
the
fende
to
be
taken
and
holde
prisoner
/
In
this
contree
groweth
a
pese
whiche
is
so
hoot
it
skaldeth
the
handes
of
them
that
holde
it
/
and
it
growyth
wyth
encresyng
of
the
mone
and
wyth
wanyng
is
descreceth
at
eche
tyme
of
his
●ours
/
It
helpeth
wel
to
them
that
ben
nygromancyers
After
this
royame
is
another
whiche
is
called
Mesopotamye
/
wherin
Nynyue
a
cyte
of
grete
seynourye
and
myghty
is
sette
and
establysshid
whiche
is
iij
dayes
Iourneyes
of
lengthe
and
is
moche
large
&
brood
.
In
babylone
is
a
tour
that
somtyme
was
made
by
grete
pryde
of
whiche
the
wallys
ben
meruayllously
grete
stronge
/
and
hye
and
is
called
the
tour
of
babell
/
It
is
of
heyght
round
aboute
.iiij.
M.
paas
vnto
the
hyest
/
In
the
regyon
of
Caldee
was
first
founden
Astronomye
/
In
this
regyon
is
the
lande
of
Saba
/
and
therby
is
the
regyon
of
tharse
/
And
after
is
that
of
Arabie
of
thyse
iij
Regyons
were
lordes
and
prynces
the
thre
kynges
that
offryd
to
our
lord
sauyour
Ihesu
Cryste
gold
/
encence
/
and
Myrre
/
That
tyme
whan
he
laye
in
the
Crybbe
after
his
blessyd
Natyuyte
as
he
that
was
the
sone
of
god
.
And
this
knewe
they
by
their
grete
wytte
and
vnderstandyng
of
Astronomye
in
whiche
they
were
endowed
and
founded
.
¶
In
this
regyon
of
Arabe
groweth
th
encence
and
the
myrre
/
And
ther
ben
therin
many
peoles
and
dyuerse
folke
/
Ther
is
also
in
Egypte
a
Regyon
whiche
is
called
assyrye
/
And
the
regyon
of
fenyce
is
there
whiche
taketh
his
name
of
a
byrde
callyd
fenyx
/
of
whiche
in
alle
the
world
is
on
this
day
but
only
one
a
lyue
.
&
whan
he
deyeth
anone
groweth
another
of
hym self
.
He
is
grete
and
moche
fair
of
Corsage
and
hath
a
creste
on
his
heed
/
lyke
as
the
pecok
hath
.
The
breste
and
the
gorge
of
hym
shyneth
and
draweth
toward
the
propre
colour
of
fyn
golde
/
And
he
is
alonge
the
back
also
reed
as
a
rose
/
And
toward
the
tayll
he
is
of
the
colour
of
asure
lyke
vnto
the
heuen
whan
it
is
pure
and
clere
/
and
whan
he
is
olde
&
eaged
he
wythdraweth
hym
vnto
an
hye
&
merueyllous
fair
place
/
or
montaygne
where
as
sourdeth
a
fontayne
ryght
grete
and
large
.
and
the
water
fair
and
clere
.
and
ouer
the
welle
groweth
a
fair
tree
and
grete
/
whiche
may
be
seen
fro
ferce
.
&
he
maketh
vpon
this
tree
his
neste
and
his
sepulture
right
in
the
myddle
of
the
tree
/
But
he
maketh
it
of
spices
of
so
right
grete
odour
that
ther
may
be
founden
no
better
/
And
after
he
adressyth
hym
in
his
neste
whan
he
hath
all
perfourmed
it
.
he
thenne
begynneth
to
meue
and
to
bete
his
wynges
ayenst
the
sonne
so
faste
&
so
longe
/
that
a
grete
hete
cometh
in
his
fethers
in
suche
wyse
that
it
quykeneth
of
fire
and
brenneth
al
rounde
aboute
his
body
that
he
is
on
a
clere
fyre
/
And
thus
the
fyre
brenneth
and
consumeth
hym
alle
in
to
asshes
/
and
out
of
theyse
asshes
and
poulder
groweth
agayn
another
byrde
all
lyuyng
semblable
to
him
¶
After
this
regyon
of
fenyce
is
the
royame
of
Damas
where
as
goode
truytes
growe
/
And
after
Damas
is
founden
the
regyon
of
Anthyoche
where
as
be
founden
grete
plente
of
Camels
/
¶
After
cometh
the
contree
of
Palatyne
/
&
after
that
Samarye
.
thenne
sebaste
.
&
thenne
Pentapolye
where
somtyme
were
founded
two
myghty
cytees
that
one
callyd
Sodome
and
that
other
Gomor
/
the
whiche
god
wold
they
shold
perysshe
for
the
grete
and
enorme
synnes
that
they
commysed
/
on
this
parteis
the
dede
see
in
whiche
is
nothyng
that
bereth
lyf
/
there
is
a
contree
that
men
calle
Ismaelyte
/
whiche
is
enhabyted
by
xij
maner
of
people
.
&
after
this
thenne
is
Egypte
the
grete
where
it
neuer
reyneth
&
conteyneth
xxiiij
peoples
/
another
regyon
ther
is
that
whiche
cometh
toward
the
north
in
whiche
ther
dwelleth
noman
/
but
wymmen
whiche
ben
as
fyers
as
lyons
/
And
whan
nede
is
they
fyghte
frely
ayenst
the
men
They
go
armed
as
knyghtes
in
bataylle
/
&
brynge
doun
their
enemyes
wythout
sparynge
/
they
haue
fair
tresses
of
their
heer
whiche
hange
doun
byhynde
them
/
And
they
be
garnysshed
wyth
grete
prouesses
in
all
their
werkes
&
affayres
/
And
ben
called
Amazones
/
But
they
haue
men
nyghe
to
their
contre
dwellyng
/
Whom
they
euery
yere
fetche
for
to
be
in
their
companye
viij
or
xv
dayes
longe
and
suffre
them
to
knowe
them
carnelly
so
longe
that
they
suppose
that
they
haue
conceyuyd
/
and
thenne
departe
the
men
fro
that
contre
And
goon
agayn
thedyr
that
they
come
fro
/
and
whan
thyse
wymmen
haue
childed
.
yf
it
be
a
doughter
they
reteyne
her
wyth
them
/
And
yf
it
be
a
sone
they
nourysshe
it
fyue
or
syxe
yere
/
and
after
sende
it
out
of
the
contree
yet
in
other
places
ben
many
fayr
ladyes
whiche
in
bataylles
/
&
in
estowes
vse
alle
their
Armes
of
syluer
for
lacke
of
yron
and
of
steell
.
of
whiche
they
haue
not
.
In
the
woodes
of
Inde
ben
other
wymmen
the
whiche
haue
their
berdes
so
longe
that
they
come
doun
to
their
pappes
/
They
lyue
by
wylde
beestys
/
and
clothe
them
wyth
the
skynnes
of
the
wyld
beestis
/
&
clothe
them
wyth
the
skynnes
of
the
same
beestis
/
And
ther
ben
men
and
wymmen
alle
naked
and
also
rowhe
as
beeres
&
ben
dwellyng
in
caues
in
the
erthe
.
And
whan
they
see
other
men
they
hyde
them
in
the
caues
so
that
they
appere
not
oute
/
Other
people
ther
ben
that
ben
also
rowhe
as
swyne
and
whynyng
/
And
ther
ben
other
wymmen
rowh
also
lyke
vnto
the
men
/
but
they
ben
moche
bestyall
&
whyte
as
snowe
/
their
teeth
ben
more
lyke
vnto
houndes
than
to
other
&
dwelle
&
abyde
wel
in
the
water
/
Another
grete
regyon
ther
is
in
whiche
dwelle
xliij
peoples
.
ther
ben
the
byrdes
whiche
ben
ful
of
deduyte
/
of
whom
the
pennes
shyne
by
nyght
like
vnto
fyre
.
There
ben
popen
gayes
which
ben
grene
&
shynyng
lyke
pecoks
whiche
ben
but
lytyl
more
than
a
Iaye
/
of
whom
as
men
saye
.
they
that
haue
on
eche
foot
fyue
clawes
ben
gentyl
&
the
vylayns
haue
but
thre
.
he
hath
a
tayl
lenger
than
a
foot
/
&
abecke
courbed
&
a
grete
tongue
&
forked
/
who
that
myght
haue
one
he
myght
wel
lerne
hym
to
speke
in
the
space
of
ij
yere
/
Another
byrde
ther
is
in
this
contre
is
named
pellycane
/
and
all
hoor
whan
he
leueth
his
chekens
and
cometh
agayn
to
fynde
them
as
is
of
nede
/
hym
semeth
that
they
ben
alle
deed
/
thenne
he
smyteth
hym self
wyth
his
bylle
in
his
breste
tyll
that
the
blood
springe
out
.
wherof
he
reyseth
agayn
to
lyf
his
byrdes
/
In
armenye
is
a
maner
of
people
that
haue
al
their
heer
whytte
.
In
thyse
partyes
is
a
moche
hye
montayne
where
vpon
the
arke
of
Noe
abood
and
rested
after
the
flood
was
passed
/
After
cometh
the
prouynce
of
Inde
the
lasse
whiche
is
alle
enuyronned
wyth
the
see
wherin
ben
many
regions
of
whom
for
this
present
tyme
we
wyl
not
declare
the
names
/
In
this
prouynce
of
Asie
is
the
Regyon
of
dardane
.
And
the
contre
of
ffrygye
in
to
whiche
parys
whan
he
had
rauisshed
helayne
brought
her
to
wherfor
the
puyssaunte
cyte
of
Troye
the
grete
was
at
thempryse
of
the
grekes
destroyed
by
fyre
and
glayue
/
This
cyte
was
sette
at
one
of
th
endes
of
grece
/
In
thise
partye
is
sette
the
noble
cyte
of
lychaonye
/
And
nyghe
to
the
same
stondeth
another
Cyte
callyd
Cayer
by
whiche
renneth
the
grete
flood
name
herme
of
whiche
the
grauel
is
of
gold
alle
shynyng
/
Fro
this
parte
toward
th
ende
of
egypte
cometh
to
vs
the
payllole
whiche
is
of
fyn
golde
.
Ther
is
toward
th
oryent
on
that
other
syde
a
maner
of
people
that
somtyme
descended
fro
the
Iewes
.
and
ben
people
of
their
condycion
vyle
.
fowl
/
and
stynkyng
.
they
haue
no
wyues
wedded
ne
holde
no
concubynes
ne
other
for
as
moche
as
they
may
not
byleue
that
wymmen
may
holde
them
to
one
man
only
wythout
to
double
them
wyth
other
/
And
therfore
they
sette
no
store
by
wymmen
/
but
only
that
they
may
haue
generacion
/
Another
maner
of
peoole
ther
ben
in
this
prouynce
whiche
ben
callyd
barbaryns
/
&
ben
also
called
Iacobyns
.
For
Iacob
was
aūcyenly
their
maystre
&
ben
Cristen
men
corrumped
by
the
maryages
&
alyaunces
that
they
doo
&
make
wyth
the
sarasyns
whiche
on
that
one
syde
marche
on
them
/
Thyse
barbaryns
pourpryse
wel
xl
.
royames
/
In
no
wyse
they
byleue
that
confession
be
vayllable
to
shewe
it
to
ony
man
sauf
to
god
only
/
whan
they
confesse
them
to
god
they
sette
by
them
fyre
and
encence
.
And
they
wene
certaynly
that
their
thoughtes
goo
vp
vnto
our
lord
in
this
fumee
but
it
is
not
so
as
they
byleue
/
but
they
mysbyleue
saynt
Iohan
baptyste
the
whiche
first
baptysed
them
/
For
to
fore
all
thynges
they
behoued
to
saye
their
●ynnes
to
him self
/
And
after
they
receyued
of
hym
baptesme
/
For
seynt
Iohan
baptest
sayth
hym self
that
whan
one
telleth
his
sinnes
to
another
that
may
be
a
synner
as
he
is
/
this
shame
that
he
hath
to
saye
his
synnes
is
torned
to
hym
in
stede
of
penytence
.
and
is
to
hym
allegeance
of
his
synnes
/
and
him
ought
by
reson
the
sonner
to
absteyne
hym
fro
synnyng
/
seen
that
he
muste
shewe
them
to
another
man
/
By
whiche
he
may
ha●e
of
our
lorde
remyssyon
and
pardon
of
his
synnes
and
inyquitees
/
this
wytnesseth
to
vs
saynt
Iohan
baptist
/
the
whiche
by
the
holy
and
blessyd
sacrament
of
baptisme
rendreth
vs
quyte
ayenst
our
lord
god
of
our
synnes
/
And
that
we
may
be
purged
by
very
confessyon
/
good
contricion
and
full
satisfaction
euerich
after
his
power
/
therfor
thyse
Iacobyns
ben
grettely
deceyued
/
For
they
haue
euyl
reteyned
the
holsome
doctryne
that
seynt
Iohn
baptist
taught
them
/
In
this
regyon
is
another
maner
of
people
Crysten
that
byleue
a
lytyl
better
in
god
and
ben
stronge
&
myghty
in
bataylle
/
The
sarasyns
doubte
them
moche
And
dar
not
mysdoo
them
/
but
ben
to
them
swete
and
amyable
.
thyse
people
be
named
Georgyens
/
and
ben
good
crysten
men
.
And
ben
enclosed
round
aboute
wyth
feloun
&
mysbyleuyd
people
.
And
they
ben
called
as
a
fo●e
is
sayd
georgyens
.
by
cause
they
crye
alway
on
seynt
george
in
batayll
in
estours
and
in
recountres
ayenst
the
sarasyns
.
And
also
they
worshipe
and
loue
hym
aboue
alle
other
seyntes
/
They
haue
alle
crownes
shauen
on
their
heedes
/
But
the
clerkes
haue
them
rounde
/
&
the
laye
people
haue
them
square
/
whan
they
go
to
Iherusalem
for
to
worshipe
the
holly
sepulture
of
our
lord
Ihesus
/
The
sarrasyns
dar
not
take
of
them
ony
tolle
ne
nothyng
hurte
them
by
cause
they
doubte
that
whan
they
come
and
repayre
agayn
they
sholde
abye
it
dere
/
The
gentyl
ladyes
of
the
contree
/
Arme
them
&
ryde
vpon
good
horses
rennyng
and
swyfte
.
and
fyghte
asprely
in
the
companye
of
the
knyghtes
of
Georgye
ayenst
the
sarasyns
They
vse
lyke
lawes
/
and
lyke
termes
of
speche
as
doon
the
grekes
/
¶
Hier
speketh
of
the
fysshes
that
be
founden
in
Inde
.
Capitulo
/
ixo.
IN
the
see
of
Inde
is
a
maner
of
fysshes
that
on
their
skynnes
growe
heer
so
longe
that
the
people
make
therof
robes
mantellis
and
other
vestimentys
whiche
they
were
whan
they
haue
taken
and
made
them
.
Yet
ther
is
another
maner
of
fysshe
in
this
see
whiche
ben
named
escimuz
whiche
ben
no
lengre
that
a
foot
longe
/
but
they
haue
suche
strengthe
that
in
contynent
that
they
touche
a
ship
one
of
them
only
reteyneth
hym
stylle
that
he
may
not
goo
forward
ne
afterward
/
Ther
is
also
another
maner
of
fysshe
that
be
comynly
callyd
dolphins
.
they
haue
acustome
that
whan
they
fele
that
the
tempest
shal
come
.
and
that
the
shippes
ben
in
daunger
for
to
be
lost
and
perisshid
/
they
warne
them
out
of
the
watre
and
shewe
and
playe
on
the
wawes
of
the
see
in
suche
wyse
that
somtyme
they
be
playnly
seen
In
this
see
of
Inde
is
another
fysshe
so
huge
and
grete
that
on
his
backe
growrth
erthe
and
grasse
.
And
semeth
proprely
that
it
is
a
grete
I
le
/
wherof
it
happeth
somtyme
that
the
maronners
sayllyng
by
this
see
ben
gretly
deceyued
and
abused
/
For
they
wene
certaynly
that
it
be
ferme
londe
.
Wherfor
they
goo
out
of
their
shippes
theron
/
and
whan
they
haue
made
their
preparacions
and
their
logys
theron
and
lyghted
their
fyre
and
made
it
to
brenne
after
their
nede
wenyng
to
be
on
a
ferme
londe
.
but
incontynent
as
this
merueyllous
fysshe
feleth
the
hete
of
the
fyre
.
he
meueth
hym
sodenly
and
deualeth
doun
in
to
the
water
as
depe
as
he
may
/
And
thus
alle
that
is
vpon
hym
is
lost
in
the
see
And
by
this
moyen
.
many
shippes
ben
drowned
and
perisshid
.
and
the
people
.
whan
they
supposed
to
haue
be
in
sauete
/
Ther
is
in
this
see
plente
of
other
fysshe
the
whiche
haue
heedes
and
bodyes
lyke
vnto
a
mayde
/
&
haue
fayr
tresses
made
of
their
heer
/
the
shapp
of
their
bodies
vnto
the
nauel
is
lyke
a
mayde
And
the
remenaunt
is
lyke
the
body
&
tayll
of
a
fysshe
And
somme
haue
wynges
lyke
fowles
/
And
their
songe
is
so
swete
&
so
melodyous
that
it
is
meruaylle
to
here
&
they
be
called
seraynes
or
mermaydens
.
Of
whom
somme
saye
that
they
be
fisshes
&
other
saye
that
they
be
fowles
whiche
flee
by
the
see
.
But
take
it
a
worth
.
For
at
this
tyme
I
shal
deporte
to
speke
more
of
this
mater
For
to
telle
&
recounte
to
yow
of
the
meruayllous
trees
that
growe
in
Inde
/
of
whiche
ben
many
dyuerse
and
bere
sondrely
fruyt
/
as
here
after
al
a
longe
shall
be
declared
to
yow
/
¶
Here
foloweth
of
the
trees
that
ben
in
Inde
&
of
their
fruytes
/
Capitulo
/
xᵒ.
IN
Inde
groweth
a
tree
moche
grete
&
right
fayr
/
and
is
moche
swete
smellyng
&
is
called
palmyer
/
and
bereth
dates
/
This
fruyt
is
good
and
holsom
/
Ther
ben
also
applet●●es
the
whiche
ben
full
of
longe
apples
/
whiche
ben
of
merueyllous
good
sauour
/
¶
And
they
entretiene
&
cleue
to
gydre
wel
an
hondred
in
a
clustre
/
&
the
leues
that
growe
on
this
apple
trees
ben
wel
two
fote
longe
/
&
a
foot
brode
/
Other
apples
ther
growe
moche
grete
/
wherin
appiereth
the
bytte
of
a
man
wyth
his
teeth
/
And
ben
called
th
apples
of
Adam
by
cause
of
the
bytte
that
apiereth
in
them
/
ther
ben
other
trees
whiche
bere
apples
/
that
ben
right
fair
wythout
forth
/
And
wythin
it
is
as
it
were
asshes
.
The
vygnes
bere
there
grapes
/
of
whiche
wyn
is
maade
.
they
ben
so
habondaunt
of
fruyt
/
And
the
clustres
of
grapes
ben
so
grete
&
so
ful
of
muste
.
that
two
men
ben
gretly
charged
to
bere
one
of
them
only
vpon
acolestaf
/
Also
ther
growe
lytyl
smale
trees
that
be
remeuyd
euery
yere
the
whiche
bere
cotoun
.
also
ther
growe
in
many
places
canes
grete
and
longe
whiche
ben
wythin
forth
ful
of
sugre
.
so
moche
and
especiall
that
ther
growe
none
lyke
in
alle
the
worlde
/
At
one
of
the
heedes
of
the
Royame
of
babylone
groweth
the
bame
whiche
is
moche
dere
/
and
cristen
men
that
ben
prysonners
there
delue
and
laboure
the
erthe
/
And
sarasyns
saye
that
they
hane
ofte
preuyd
it
/
that
whan
they
doo
delue
and
laboure
that
erthe
wyth
people
of
other
nacions
than
crysten
men
that
it
bereth
no
fruyt
ne
bame
that
yere
/
And
vpon
the
felde
where
the
bame
groweth
/
some
saye
that
there
spryngeth
a
fontayne
where
the
blessyd
vyrgyne
Marie
bayned
her
sone
Ihesus
/
And
with
the
watre
of
this
fontayne
is
the
bame
watred
.
and
of
this
water
may
not
be
employed
ne
born
in
to
other
place
/
For
in
substaunce
it
doth
nomore
than
other
water
.
In
this
contre
ben
other
trees
the
whiche
in
stede
of
leues
bere
wulle
/
of
whiche
is
made
cloth
right
fayr
and
subtyll
/
of
whiche
th
ynhabytauns
of
the
contree
make
them
robes
&
mantellis
for
their
weryng
/
Yet
ben
ther
other
trees
that
bere
a
fruyt
right
swete
smellyng
/
But
this
tree
taketh
his
fruyt
by
nyght
in
hym
/
and
in
the
mornyng
it
cometh
out
agayn
when
the
sonne
is
rysen
/
Ther
growe
there
plente
of
other
trees
/
Of
whom
the
cooles
whan
they
ben
a
fyre
duryn
in
their
asshes
an
hool
yere
wythout
goyng
out
/
or
quenchyng
or
mynnyssyng
/
Also
ther
growe
plente
of
Cedres
and
of
lybans
/
the
whiche
as
men
saye
may
not
rote
/
other
trees
there
growe
moche
gloryous
&
right
good
whiche
bere
clowes
/
And
other
that
bere
notemygges
/
And
of
the
rynde
and
scorce
is
the
canell
or
synamon
/
And
also
ther
groweth
gynger
/
In
this
partye
growe
the
g●ode
espyces
of
all
maner
haboundantly
/
Also
there
growe
notes
grete
plente
/
whiche
ben
also
grete
as
grete
apples
.
And
other
that
ben
as
grete
as
the
hede
of
a
man
.
To
the
regard
of
the
trees
that
ben
in
paradys
terrestre
we
knowe
not
what
fruyt
they
brynge
forth
But
it
is
wel
knowen
of
the
tree
/
that
/
Eue
had
so
grete
desyre
to
ete
aboue
the
commandement
of
our
lord
god
/
&
of
whiche
she
deceyued
Adam
our
first
fader
and
in
lyke
wyse
is
there
the
tree
of
lyf
/
of
whiche
we
haue
spoken
to fore
more
largely
.
Ther
ben
in
this
noble
paradis
so
many
other
tres
bering
fruit
so
good
and
so
delicyous
that
it
semeth
that
the
glorye
of
our
lord
be
therin
ouerall
/
But
ther
is
a
meruayllous
watche
and
kepar
/
¶
For
the
Angele
of
god
is
kepar
of
th
entre
wyth
a
nakyd
swerde
in
his
honde
contynuelly
brennyng
to
th
ende
that
nomen
ne
bestes
ne
euyll
spirytes
approche
ne
Auaunce
them
for
to
take
in
ony
wyse
there
their
delytes
and
playsaunces
.
and
taccomplissh
them
ther
within
/
And
here
wyth
we
make
an
ende
of
this
prupoos
for
to
speke
of
the
contrees
of
europe
and
of
the
condicions
/
Now
foloweth
of
Europe
and
of
his
contrees
.
Ca.
xjo.
SYth
we
haue
deuysed
to
you
of
Asye
and
of
his
contrees
and
regyons
/
I
shal
saye
to
yow
of
Europe
and
his
condicions
shortly
/
For
as
moche
as
we
may
ofte
here
speke
therof
/
The
first
partye
of
Europe
is
romanye
and
a
parte
of
Constantynoble
/
Trapesonde
/
macedone
/
Thesalye
/
Boheme
.
Saxonye
/
Pyrre
/
and
a
moche
holsom
contre
named
Archade
.
In
this
contre
sourdeth
&
springeth
a
fontayne
in
whiche
men
may
not
quenche
brennyng
brondes
/
ne
cooles
on
fire
and
brennyng
/
In
archade
is
a
stone
which
in
no
wyse
may
be
quenchyd
after
it
is
sette
a
fyre
tyl
it
be
all
brent
in
to
asshes
.
After
archade
is
the
Royame
of
denmarke
.
and
thenne
Hongrye
.
and
sythe
hosterich
And
thenne
foloweth
germanye
whiche
we
calle
Almayne
whiche
conteyneth
a
grete
pourprys
toward
thocciden
.
In
whiche
pourprys
ben
many
grete
and
puyssaunt
Royames
/
In
Allemayne
sourdeth
a
grete
flood
and
ryuere
named
dunoe
.
the
whiche
stratcheth
vnto
in
Constantynople
.
and
there
entreth
in
to
the
see
/
But
erst
it
trauerseth
vij
grete
floodes
by
his
radour
and
rennyng
/
And
as
I
haue
herd
saye
the
hede
of
this
dunoe
begynneth
on
one
syde
of
a
montayne
.
and
that
other
side
of
the
same
montayne
sourdeth
another
grete
ryuer
/
Whiche
is
named
the
Ryn
and
renneth
thurgh
almayne
by
Basyle
.
strasburgh
Magounce
/
Couelence
Coleyn
/
and
nemyng
/
where
fast
by
it
departeth
in
to
iiij
ryuers
and
renneth
thurgh
the
londes
of
Cleue
.
ghelres
.
and
holande
and
so
in
to
the
see
.
And
yet
er
this
ryuer
entre
in
to
to
see
.
he
entreth
in
to
another
ryuer
named
the
Mase
.
and
than
loseth
he
his
name
.
and
is
called
the
mase
/
and
xl
myle
longe
in
the
see
/
In
europe
is
also
swauen
.
basse
Almayn
.
Fraunce
/
Englonde
/
scotland
and
Irlonde
.
And
aboue
thise
many
other
contrees
whiche
endure
vnto
the
mount
Ius
.
and
thus
moche
space
holdeth
the
partye
of
Europe
.
Now
shal
we
deuyse
to
yow
how
moche
Affryke
conteyneth
.
¶
Here
foloweth
of
affryke
and
of
his
regyons
and
contrees
.
Capitulo
xijo.
AFter
europe
is
Affryke
of
which
the
regyon
of
lybe
is
the
firste
/
This
is
a
londe
moche
riche
.
wel
pepled
&
strongly
garnysshid
.
After
cometh
the
royamme
of
Surrye
.
Iherusalem
and
the
contrey
aboute
.
This
is
the
holy
londe
where
our
lord
Ihu
Cryst
receyuyd
our
humanyte
&
passyon
.
&
where
he
roos
fro
deth
to
lyf
.
after
th
oppynyon
of
somme
is
that
this
holy
londe
longeth
to
asye
/
After
thenne
cometh
grece
.
cypres
.
cecyle
/
toscane
/
naples
.
lombardye
.
gascoyen
/
spayne
.
cateloyne
/
galyce
.
nauarre
.
portyngal
.
&
aragon
And
how
be
it
that
the
auctour
of
this
book
saye
that
thise
contrees
ben
in
Affryke
/
yet
as
I
vnderstonde
all
thise
ben
wythin
the
lymytes
&
boundes
of
europe
/
Also
ther
ben
somme
of
thyse
regyons
&
contrees
that
take
their
name
of
somme
beestes
that
dwelle
in
the
same
londes
/
&
the
cytees
haue
taken
the
fourmes
/
as
rome
hath
the
fourme
of
a
lyon
/
And
troye
the
grete
of
an
hors
&c.
All
barbarye
is
in
affryke
&
alysandre
/
&
ethiope
stratcheth
vnto
th
ende
of
affryke
/
In
this
contre
of
ethyope
the
people
ben
black
for
hete
of
the
sonne
.
For
it
is
so
hoot
in
this
contre
.
that
it
semeth
that
the
erthe
shold
brenne
.
beyonde
ethyope
is
no
londe
but
deserte
/
and
londe
wythout
bryngyng
forth
of
ony
fruyt
/
but
it
is
ful
of
serpentes
of
vermyne
and
of
wylde
beestis
whiche
londe
endeth
at
the
grete
see
/
¶
Here
shal
we
speke
of
dyuerse
Iles
of
the
see
/
Ca
/
xiij
SYth
we
haue
descryuid
and
uydesed
the
londe
.
It
is
reson
that
we
enqure
of
the
Iles
of
the
see
.
And
in
especial
of
them
that
we
knowe
the
names
of
whiche
ther
ben
plente
in
the
see
.
Ther
is
a
moche
grete
yle
called
andos
whiche
is
toward
europe
/
&
syth
is
the
yle
of
colchos
.
where
the
flyes
of
gold
was
found
lyke
as
to
vs
reherseth
t
hystorye
of
Iason
/
Ther
is
another
yle
called
Maron
In
this
yle
was
born
the
holy
man
seynt
denys
whiche
receyuid
martirdom
in
fraunce
/
Toward
asye
the
grete
ben
the
nombre
of
xliiij
.
There
is
one
yle
named
delos
/
this
Ile
appiered
first
after
noes
flood
/
Ther
is
another
whiche
is
called
meloth
.
&
it
is
so
called
for
the
right
grete
melodye
that
is
herd
therin
of
swete
songe
of
byrdes
that
ben
in
this
yle
contynuelly
in
this
Ile
groweth
plente
of
whyte
marble
/
Ther
is
another
yle
in
this
contre
that
is
called
psalmos
in
whiche
the
quene
sebylle
was
born
/
the
whiche
prophecyed
of
many
thinges
of
our
lord
Ihu
cryst
longe
tyme
byfore
he
was
born
of
the
virgyne
Marie
/
and
she
prophecyed
thise
thynges
at
rome
/
where
she
was
sent
fore
.
In
this
yle
was
first
founden
the
maner
to
make
pottes
of
erthe
/
whiche
ben
yet
vsed
in
many
contrees
/
In
this
yle
was
born
a
grete
phylosophre
&
a
good
clercke
named
pictogoras
/
the
whiche
by
his
grete
entendement
fonde
the
poyntes
and
the
difference
or
musyque
.
In
affryke
is
also
an
yle
in
the
see
whiche
is
callyd
sardayne
.
where
an
herbe
groweth
whiche
is
of
suche
vertue
that
yf
one
ete
of
it
he
deyeth
anon
forth
wyth
all
lawhing
.
Another
yle
ther
is
named
bosut
wherin
is
no
serpent
ne
vermyne
/
And
ther
is
another
whiche
is
called
colombyne
.
where
as
is
grete
plente
&
foyson
of
vermyne
&
meruayllous
serpentes
/
Yet
ther
is
another
yle
that
is
moche
longe
&
right
brode
that
is
called
alleares
/
In
this
yle
was
first
founden
the
maner
of
meltyng
of
metals
/
Also
ther
is
the
yle
of
Meroes
the
whiche
at
the
myddle
of
the
day
hath
no
shadowe
.
yet
ther
is
a
pytte
in
this
yle
that
by
right
nombre
and
mesure
is
vij
foot
brode
and
an
hondred
foot
depe
/
And
the
sonne
shineth
in
to
the
bottom
.
Also
ther
is
another
yle
whiche
is
called
Cylla
where
the
Cyclopyens
were
somtyme
.
Another
yle
is
in
this
contree
so
grete
as
the
wyse
plato
wytnesseth
the
whiche
in
his
tyme
was
a
clercke
of
right
grete
renomme
/
whiche
hath
more
of
purpris
and
space
than
all
europe
&
affryke
conteynen
/
But
sith
the
tyme
of
plato
it
was
in
suche
wyse
destroyed
and
broken
lyke
as
it
ples●d
our
lord
/
that
it
sanke
doun
in
to
Abisme
for
the
grete
synnes
that
they
commysed
that
were
dwellers
&
habytaunts
therin
/
&
is
now
the
see
right
that
is
called
bethee
.
Another
yle
is
there
the
whiche
may
not
be
seen
whan
men
wold
goo
therto
/
but
some
goo
theder
as
men
saye
/
&
it
is
called
the
yle
loste
/
This
yle
fonde
seynt
Brandon
the
whiche
beyng
therin
on
ferme
londe
sawe
&
fonde
many
meruaylles
lyke
as
his
legende
conteyneth
/
and
who
that
wyl
knowe
it
maye
vysite
his
legende
&
rede
it
/
In
the
marches
hetherward
ben
founde
many
goode
yles
/
The
yle
of
Cypre
&
of
secyle
ther
ben
and
other
plente
that
be
founden
in
the
see
/
of
whiche
I
now
speke
not
/
And
be
not
admeruaylled
of
suche
thynges
as
ye
haue
founden
w●eton
in
this
boocke
/
the
whiche
may
seme
to
yow
moche
strange
dyuerse
and
moche
dyffycyle
to
byleue
/
for
our
lord
god
whiche
is
almyghty
maker
and
creatour
of
all
thynges
And
in
whom
alle
goodes
and
vertues
ben
.
hath
made
by
his
only
wylle
and
playsir
in
the
erthe
many
meruaylles
and
many
werkes
to
be
meruaylled
on
by
cause
that
noman
knoweth
by
no
waye
the
resons
wherfore
/
&
therfor
we
ought
not
to
mysbyleue
in
no
wyse
that
we
here
redde
ne
tolde
of
the
meruaylles
of
the
world
vnto
the
tyme
we
knowe
it
be
so
or
no.
For
the
werkes
of
our
lord
ben
so
hye
and
to
the
men
so
diffycile
&
hard
that
euery
man
may
reporte
hym
to
that
/
that
it
is
/
how
wel
that
a
man
doth
not
moche
amys
somtime
to
gyue
no
byleue
to
somme
thinges
whan
he
knoweth
not
the
trouthe
so
that
it
be
not
in
erryng
ayenst
the
fayth
/
For
it
is
a
good
and
proffytable
thyng
to
euery
man
to
vnderstande
and
reteyne
to
th
ende
that
he
may
lerne
/
of
whiche
he
be
not
abasshed
whan
he
hereth
speke
of
suche
thynges
.
and
can
answere
to
the
trouthe
/
For
in
lyke
wyse
as
to
vs
seme
grete
meruaylle
of
thynges
that
I
here
reherce
In
lyke
wyse
semeth
it
to
them
that
ben
fer
fro
vs
.
that
those
thynges
of
thyse
contrees
ben
moche
dyuerse
&
strange
/
&
meruaylle
gretly
by
cause
they
haue
lytyl
seen
of
it
.
And
therfore
a
man
ought
not
to
meruaylle
yf
he
bere
somtyme
ony
thyng
though
he
can
not
vnderstonde
the
reason
/
for
alleway
a
man
ought
to
lerne
/
¶
And
ther
is
noman
that
knoweth
all
sanf
onli
god
whiche
all
seeth
and
alle
knoweth
/
The
geaunts
that
ben
in
som
place
haue
right
grete
meruaylle
of
this
that
we
be
so
lytyl
ayenst
them
/
Lyke
as
we
meruaylle
of
them
that
ben
half
lasse
than
we
be
/
As
it
is
tofore
sayd
/
&
they
ben
the
Pygmans
whiche
ben
but
iij
foot
longe
.
And
in
lyke
wyse
meruaylle
they
of
vs
▪
of
that
we
ben
so
grete
/
and
repute
vs
also
for
geaunts
/
They
that
haue
but
one
eye
and
one
foot
.
haue
grete
meruaylle
that
we
haue
tweyue
/
lyke
as
we
doo
of
them
that
haue
but
one
/
And
also
as
we
deuyse
their
bestis
&
name
them
by
their
names
in
lyke
wyse
deuyse
they
oures
/
by
theires
/
bothe
of
body
&
of
membres
/
Yf
the
centyoore
haue
an
foot
of
an
hors
/
In
lyke
wyse
hath
the
hors
the
foot
of
a
centyoore
/
Also
we
may
wel
saye
that
the
hors
hath
the
body
of
monotheros
.
For
they
ben
lyke
corsayge
.
And
thus
their
bestes
resemble
vnto
oures
whiche
ben
dyuerse
of
hedes
of
bodyes
and
of
membres
/
as
oures
ben
contrarye
to
theires
/
¶
Of
dyuersitees
that
ben
in
europe
&
in
affryke
/
ca.
xiiij
WE
haue
in
thise
partyes
many
thynges
that
they
of
Asye
&
of
affryke
haue
none
.
Ther
is
toward
Irlonde
on
the
one
syde
a
maner
of
byrdes
that
flee
&
they
growen
on
trees
&
on
olde
shippe
sides
by
the
bylles
/
&
whan
they
be
nygh
rype
/
they
that
falle
in
the
water
lyue
.
&
the
other
not
they
ben
callyd
bernacles
.
Irland
is
a
grete
Ilonde
in
which
is
no
serpent
ne
venymous
beeste
/
&
who
that
bereth
with
hym
the
erthe
of
this
yle
in
to
another
contre
&
leyeth
it
where
as
venymous
vermyne
is
.
there
anon
it
deyeth
/
another
ylonde
is
in
Irlonde
whiche
stondeth
ferre
in
the
see
/
where
no
wymmen
may
dwelle
/
&
also
the
byrdes
that
ben
femalles
may
not
abyde
there
/
Ther
is
another
yle
wherin
noman
may
dye
in
no
tyme
of
the
world
.
but
whan
they
ben
so
olde
&
feble
that
their
membres
faylle
&
ake
&
lyue
wyth
payne
that
they
may
not
helpe
ne
susteyne
them self
/
and
that
they
had
leuer
dye
than
lyue
.
they
doo
them
to
be
born
in
to
another
yle
&
ouer
the
water
for
to
dye
.
&
the
trees
that
ben
in
this
yle
kepe
their
leues
greue
&
in
verdure
alle
tymes
wynter
&
somer
.
In
another
yle
in
Islonde
the
nyght
endureth
vj
monethes
.
&
thenne
cometh
the
daye
that
dureth
other
vj
monethes
shynyng
fair
&
clere
.
Another
place
is
in
the
same
ylonde
whiche
brenneth
nyght
&
day
.
Ther
is
also
in
Irlonde
a
place
called
seynt
Patryks
purgatorye
/
whiche
place
is
perillous
yf
ony
men
goon
therin
&
be
not
confessed
and
repentaunt
of
their
synnes
/
They
be
anon
rauysshid
and
loste
in
suche
wyse
that
noman
can
telle
where
they
be
come
/
And
yf
they
be
confessyd
and
repentaunt
/
&
that
they
haue
doon
satisfaction
and
penaunce
for
their
synnes
wythout
that
all
be
clensed
and
ful
satisfyed
therafter
shal
they
suffre
payne
and
greef
the
tormentis
in
passyng
this
crymynel
passage
/
And
whan
he
is
retorned
agayn
fro
this
purgatorye
/
Neuer
shal
no
thyng
in
this
world
plese
hym
that
he
shal
see
ner
he
shal
neuer
be
Ioyous
ne
glad
ne
shal
not
be
seen
lawhe
.
but
shal
be
contynuelly
in
wayllynges
&
wepynges
for
the
synnes
that
he
hath
commysed
.
hit
may
wel
be
that
of
auncyent
tyme
it
hath
ben
thus
as
afore
is
wreton
as
the
storye
of
Tundale
&
other
witnesse
/
but
I
haue
spoken
with
dyuerse
men
that
haue
ben
therin
/
And
that
one
of
them
was
an
hye
chanon
of
waterford
whiche
told
me
that
he
had
ben
therin
v.
or
vj
times
&
he
sawe
ne
suffred
no
suche
thynges
he
sayth
that
wyth
processyon
the
relygyous
men
that
ben
there
brynge
hym
in
to
the
hool
and
shette
the
dore
after
hym
.
&
than
he
walketh
groping
in
to
it
where
as
he
said
ben
places
&
maner
of
cowches
to
reste
on
/
And
there
he
was
all
the
nyght
in
contemplacion
&
prayer
/
and
also
slepte
there
/
&
on
the
morn
he
cam
out
agayn
/
other
while
in
their
slepe
some
men
haue
meruayllous
dremes
&
other
thynge
sawe
he
not
/
And
in
lyke
wyse
tolde
to
me
a
worshipful
knyght
of
brudgis
named
sir
Iohn
/
de
banste
that
he
had
ben
therin
in
lyke
wyse
&
see
none
other
thyng
but
as
afore
is
sayd
/
In
brytaygne
that
now
is
called
Englond
as
is
sayd
is
a
fontaygne
&
a
pyller
or
a
perron
therby
/
And
whan
men
take
water
of
this
welle
&
caste
it
vpon
the
perron
/
anon
it
begynneth
to
rayne
&
blowe
/
thondre
&
lyghtne
meruayllously
Also
in
fraunce
hath
ben
seen
somtyme
a
maner
of
peple
that
haue
be
horned
/
toward
the
mountes
of
mount
Ius
/
ye
shal
fynde
plente
of
wymmen
that
haue
botches
vnder
the
chyn
whiche
hange
doun
of
some
doun
to
the
pappes
.
&
they
that
haue
grettest
ben
holden
for
fairest
/
Other
folke
ther
ben
that
haue
botches
on
their
backes
&
ben
croked
as
crochettes
.
&
they
that
see
all
thise
thynges
ofte
meruaylle
but
lytyl
/
also
it
is
ofte
seen
that
in
this
contre
ben
born
children
deef
&
dombe
.
&
also
of
them
that
haue
bothe
nature
of
man
&
woman
yet
ben
ther
ofte
seen
some
children
comen
in
to
this
world
somme
wythout
handes
and
somme
wythout
armes
/
¶
Of
the
maner
&
condycion
of
beestes
of
thyse
contrees
/
Capitulo
.
xvᵒ.
THe
fox
is
of
suche
a
condicion
that
whan
he
departeth
fro
the
woode
and
gooth
in
to
the
feldes
/
there
he
lyeth
doun
and
stratcheth
hym
on
the
grounde
as
he
were
deed
for
to
take
byrdes
/
Whan
the
herte
wylle
renue
his
age
he
eteth
of
som
venymous
beeste
/
Yf
the
tode
Crapault
or
spyn●●●
byte
a
man
or
woman
/
they
be
in
daunger
for
to
dye
/
It
hath
be
ofte
seen
/
The
spyttle
of
a
man
fastynge
sleeth
comynly
the
spyncoppe
and
the
tode
yf
it
touche
them
yf
a
wulf
and
a
man
see
that
one
that
other
fro
ferre
/
He
that
is
first
seen
becometh
anon
aferd
/
the
wulf
bereth
the
sheep
wythout
hurtynge
or
greuyng
of
hym
doubtyng
that
he
wold
crye
/
and
that
he
shold
not
be
folowed
/
And
after
deuoureth
hym
whan
he
hath
brought
hym
to
the
wode
/
and
yf
he
be
constrayned
to
leue
hym
in
his
berynge
He
destrayneth
hym
wyth
all
his
myght
at
his
departyng
The
spyther
or
spyncop
of
his
propre
nature
spynneth
&
weueth
of
his
entraylles
the
threde
/
of
whiche
he
maketh
his
nettes
for
to
take
flyes
whiche
he
eteth
/
whan
the
she
ape
hath
two
whelpes
or
fawnes
she
loueth
that
one
moche
better
than
that
other
/
She
beryth
hym
that
she
loueth
best
in
her
armes
/
and
that
other
she
leteth
goo
/
whiche
whan
she
is
hunted
lepeth
on
the
moders
backe
and
holdeth
her
faste
/
And
that
other
that
she
bereth
in
her
armes
/
she
leteth
falle
and
is
ofte
constrayned
to
saue
her self
/
Also
it
is
so
that
the
hounde
kepeth
the
goodes
of
his
lorde
and
maystre
.
And
ben
by
hym
warantes
ayenst
men
and
bestes
.
And
aboue
alle
other
he
knoweth
his
lord
&
maystre
by
his
smellyng
.
&
loueth
hym
of
so
right
good
loue
that
ofte
it
happeth
be
it
ryght
or
wronge
he
wyl
not
forsake
/
his
maystre
vnto
the
deth
.
And
also
he
is
so
sorowful
for
the
deth
of
his
maystre
/
that
other
whyle
he
loseth
his
lyff
In
englond
in
som
place
is
ther
a
maner
of
houndes
that
go
on
and
seche
out
the
theuys
.
and
bryngen
them
fro
thens
where
they
fonde
them
/
The
muskele
is
a
right
lytyl
beeste
and
sleeth
the
basylycock
/
and
in
longe
fyghtyng
byteth
hym
out
of
mesure
/
She
of
her
nature
remeueth
so
ofte
her
fawnes
fro
one
place
to
another
that
wyth
grete
payne
they
may
vnnethe
be
founden
/
The
hyrchon
whan
he
fyndeth
apples
beten
or
blowen
doun
of
a
tree
/
he
waloweth
on
them
tyl
he
.
be
chargyd
and
laden
wyth
the
fruyt
styckyng
on
his
pryckes
/
And
whan
he
feleth
hym self
laden
as
moche
as
he
may
bere
he
gooth
his
way
wyth
them
syngyng
and
make
his
deduyt
/
And
yf
he
mete
ony
beeste
that
wold
doo
hym
harme
.
he
reduyseth
hym self
as
rounde
as
a
bowle
/
and
hydeth
his
groyne
and
his
feet
/
&
armeth
hym
wyth
his
pryckes
aboute
his
skynne
in
suche
wyse
that
no
beeste
dar
approche
hym
doubtyng
his
pryckes
The
lambe
whiche
neuer
sawe
wulf
/
of
his
propre
nature
doubteth
and
fleeth
hym
/
But
he
doubteth
nothyng
other
bestes
but
gooth
hardyly
emonge
them
/
¶
Of
the
maner
of
byrdes
of
thyse
forsayd
contrees
Capitulo
/
xvjo.
THe
Egle
of
his
nature
taketh
his
byrdes
by
the
vngles
or
clawes
wyth
his
bylle
.
And
hym
that
holdeth
fastest
he
loueth
beste
and
kepeth
them
next
by
him
/
And
them
that
holden
but
febly
/
he
leteth
hem
goo
/
and
taketh
none
hede
of
them
/
whan
the
Egle
is
moche
aged
he
fleeth
so
hye
that
he
passeth
the
clowdes
/
And
holdeth
there
his
syght
so
longe
ayenst
the
sonne
/
that
he
hath
all
loste
it
and
brente
alle
his
fethers
/
Thenne
he
falleth
doun
on
a
montayn
in
the
water
that
he
hath
to fore
chosen
/
and
in
this
manere
he
reneweth
his
byl
/
And
whan
his
bylle
is
ouer
longe
he
breketh
and
bruseth
it
ayenst
an
hard
stone
and
sharpeth
it
whan
the
Turtle
hath
loste
her
make
whom
she
hath
first
knowen
/
Neuer
after
wyl
she
haue
make
ne
sytte
vpon
grene
tree
.
But
fleeth
emonge
the
trees
contynuelly
bewayllyng
her
loue
.
The
hostryche
by
his
nature
eteth
well
yron
.
and
greueth
hym
not
/
whan
the
heyron
seeth
the
tempest
come
/
he
fleeth
vp
so
hye
tyl
he
be
aboue
the
clowdes
for
t
eschewe
the
rayn
and
tempeste
/
The
Chowe
whan
she
fyndeth
gold
or
syluer
of
her
nature
she
hydeth
and
bereth
it
away
.
¶
And
who
somtyme
heereth
her
voys
.
It
semeth
proprely
that
she
speketh
/
The
crowe
weneth
that
he
is
the
fayrest
byrde
of
alle
other
/
and
the
beste
syngyng
/
Yf
her
byrdes
be
whyte
in
ony
parte
/
she
wyll
neuer
doo
them
good
tyl
they
be
all
black
.
The
pecok
whan
he
byholdeth
his
fethers
he
setteth
vp
his
tayll
as
Rounde
as
a
wheell
all
aboute
hym
/
by
cause
his
beaulte
sholde
be
alowed
and
preysed
/
and
is
moche
prowde
of
his
fayr
fethrrs
and
plumage
/
But
whan
he
beholdeth
toward
his
feet
/
whiche
ben
fowl
to
loke
on
/
thenne
he
leteth
his
tayll
falle
wenyng
to
couer
his
feet
.
The
goshawke
and
sperhawk
taken
their
prayes
by
the
ryuers
/
But
they
that
ben
tame
and
reclaymed
brynge
that
they
take
to
theyr
lord
whiche
hath
so
taught
them
.
The
culuuer
or
the
downe
is
a
symple
byrde
/
and
of
her
nature
nourysshith
well
the
pigeons
of
another
douue
/
And
apperceyuyth
well
in
the
water
by
the
shadowe
and
seeth
therin
whan
the
hawke
wold
take
her
/
The
huppe
or
lapwynche
is
a
byrde
crested
/
whiche
is
moche
in
mareys
and
fylthes
/
and
abydeth
leuer
therin
than
out
therof
/
who
someuer
ennoynteth
hym self
wyth
the
blode
of
the
huppe
.
and
happe
that
after
leyde
hym
doun
to
slepe
hym
shold
seme
anon
in
his
slepe
dreming
that
alle
the
deuyllys
of
helle
shold
come
to
hym
and
wold
strangle
hym
/
The
nyghtyngal
of
her
propre
nature
syngyth
wel
and
louge
and
otherwhyle
so
longe
that
she
deyeth
syngyng
/
And
the
larke
lyke
wyse
deyeth
ofte
syngeng
/
The
swanne
syngeth
ofte
to
fore
her
deth
/
In
lyke
wyse
doo
ofto
many
men
/
Of
thyse
thynges
and
of
many
other
.
Moche
people
meruaylle
that
neuer
herde
of
suche
thynges
to fore
.
ne
knowe
not
therof
as
we
doo
here
that
dayly
.
fynde
it
.
For
in
this
booke
we
fynde
many
thynges
and
resons
/
wherof
men
meruaylle
strongly
that
neuer
haue
seen
lerned
ne
herd
of
them
/
¶
Of
dyuersytes
of
somme
comyne
thynges
/
Caplo.
xvij
PLente
and
many
thynges
ther
ben
at
eye
/
of
whiche
the
resons
ben
conuert
and
hyd
fro
vs
/
of
whiche
the
people
meruaylle
but
lytil
/
by
cause
they
see
it
so
ofte
/
The
quick
syluer
is
of
suche
nature
&
manere
that
it
susteyneth
a
stone
vpon
it
where
as
water
&
oyle
may
not
.
for
the
stone
in
them
goth
to
the
bottom
.
the
lyme
or
brent
chal●e
/
in
colde
water
anon
it
chauffeth
&
is
hoot
that
noman
may
suffre
his
hand
on
it
/
The
rayes
of
the
sonne
make
the
heer
of
a
man
abourne
or
blounde
/
and
it
maketh
the
flessh
of
a
man
broun
or
black
/
And
it
whyteth
the
lynnen
cloth
/
And
the
erthe
that
is
moyst
and
softe
.
maketh
drye
and
hard
.
and
waxe
that
is
drye
/
jt
relenteth
and
maketh
softe
.
Also
it
maketh
cold
water
in
a
vessel
warme
Also
oute
of
a
gla●
ayenst
the
sonne
men
make
fyre
/
and
out
of
Crystal
in
lyke
wyse
also
wyth
smytyng
of
a
stone
ayenst
yron
cometh
fyre
and
flammeth
/
The
breeth
of
a
man
whiche
is
hoot
coleth
hoot
thing
/
And
it
chauffeth
colde
/
and
ayer
/
by
me●yng
.
The
erthe
whiche
is
peysant
and
right
heuy
by
nature
holdeth
hit
in
the
myddle
of
thayer
wythout
pyler
and
foundement
only
but
by
nature
.
And
therfore
he
is
a
fooll
that
merueylleth
of
thynges
that
god
maketh
/
For
no
creature
hath
the
power
to
shewe
reson
whefore
they
ben
or
not
For
ther
is
nothyng
how
lytyl
it
be
that
the
glose
may
be
knowen
vnto
the
trouthe
sauf
only
that
whiche
pleseth
to
our
lord
god
/
For
to
be
wel
founded
in
clergye
may
men
knowe
and
vnderstande
the
reson
of
somme
thinges
/
and
also
by
nature
suche
thynge
as
by
reson
can
not
be
comprehended
.
Thawh
a
man
enquyre
neuer
so
longe
of
that
is
wrought
in
th
erthe
by
nature
/
he
shal
not
mowe
come
to
the
knowelege
wherfore
ne
how
they
be
made
.
This
may
noman
certaynly
knowe
/
sauf
god
only
whiche
knoweth
the
reson
and
vnderstandeth
it
/
¶
For
to
knowe
where
helle
stondeth
.
and
what
thyng
it
is
Capitulo
/
xviijo.
WE
haue
declared
to
yow
and
deuysed
the
erthe
wythout
forth
the
best
wyse
that
we
can
/
But
now
it
is
expedyent
after
that
this
that
is
sayd
to
knowe
and
enquyre
what
places
and
what
mansyons
ther
may
be
wythin
th
erthe
/
and
whether
it
be
paradys
.
helle
purgatorye
.
lymbo
or
other
thynge
/
And
whiche
of
them
is
best
/
and
whiche
of
them
alle
is
worste
/
As
to
the
regard
of
me
and
as
me
semeth
that
/
that
whiche
is
enformed
and
closed
in
the
erthe
is
helle
.
I
saye
this
for
as
moche
as
helle
may
in
no
wyse
be
in
thayer
whiche
is
one
so
noble
a
place
.
Also
I
may
frely
mayntene
that
it
is
not
in
heuen
.
For
that
place
is
so
right
excellent
pure
and
net
/
that
helle
may
not
endure
there
/
For
as
moche
as
helle
is
so
horryble
stynkyng
fowl
/
and
obscure
/
Also
it
is
more
poysaunt
&
heuy
than
ony
thing
may
be
/
wherfor
it
may
be
clerly
vnderstanden
that
helle
is
beyng
in
the
most
lowest
place
.
most
derke
/
and
most
vyle
of
the
erthe
/
And
as
I
haue
here
sayd
to
yow
the
causes
why
/
In
trouthe
it
may
not
be
in
thayer
.
and
yet
lasse
in
heuen
for
it
is
in
alle
poyntes
contrarye
to
heuen
aboue
.
for
as
moche
as
these
two
ben
contrarye
one
to
another
of
whiche
places
in
that
one
is
founden
but
alle
glorye
and
consolacion
/
that
is
heuen
.
In
that
other
is
nothing
but
of
all
trybulacyon
.
that
is
helle
/
And
therfore
it
is
wythdrawen
alle
vnder
fro
that
other
as
ferre
as
it
may
.
and
that
is
in
the
myddle
of
th
erthe
.
I
saye
not
that
helle
is
not
in
none
other
place
where
it
be
/
For
after
the
deth
he
hath
payne
&
sorowe
that
hath
deserued
it
/
And
whan
suche
one
shal
haue
his
payne
aboue
/
so
moche
hath
he
the
worse
.
Alle
thus
as
it
shold
be
of
somme
man
that
had
a
grete
maladye
so
moche
that
he
shold
deye
.
And
that
he
were
brought
in
to
a
fayr
place
and
plesaunt
for
to
haue
Ioye
and
solace
/
of
so
moche
shold
he
be
more
heuy
and
sorowful
whan
he
sawe
that
he
coude
ne
myght
helpe
hym self
ne
take
therby
noo
spoort
ne
releef
/
In
lyke
wyse
shal
it
be
of
thyse
vnhappy
caytifs
that
ben
by
their
demerytes
dampned
in
helle
/
wherof
we
shal
now
herafter
to
yow
more
ample
and
largely
declare
/
for
to
fynysshe
the
bettre
our
booke
/
Now
yf
ye
wille
take
hede
and
vnderstonde
.
we
shal
deuyse
how
helle
is
in
the
myddle
of
th
erthe
/
and
of
what
nature
it
is
of
/
And
of
the
inestymable
tormentis
whiche
they
haue
that
ben
therin
put
and
condempned
.
ye
haue
wel
vndestanden
how
by
nature
the
iiij
elementes
holde
them
that
one
wythin
that
other
so
that
th
erthe
is
in
the
myddle
and
holdeth
hym
in
the
myddle
of
the
firmament
all
in
lyke
wyse
is
ther
in
the
myddle
of
th
erthe
a
place
whiche
is
called
Abisme
or
swolowe
/
&
erthe
of
perdycion
/
Thus
moche
saye
I
to
yow
of
this
place
that
it
is
ful
of
fyre
and
of
brennyng
sulfre
/
And
it
is
ouer
hydows
stynkyng
ful
of
ordure
and
of
alle
euyll
aduenture
.
hit
is
moche
large
wythin
.
&
bynethe
it
is
strayt
.
Alle
that
falleth
therin
anon
the
sulph●e
contynuelly
brenneth
destroyeth
and
consumeth
/
And
that
thyng
that
cometh
therin
shal
neuer
fynysshe
ne
haue
ende
.
but
alleway
shal
brenne
wythout
ende
/
Alleway
it
brennth
.
and
alleway
reneweth
/
And
alle
that
come
therin
may
neuer
deye
For
this
place
is
of
suche
nature
that
the
more
it
brenneth
the
lenger
it
endureth
.
This
place
of
helle
hath
wythin
hym
alle
the
euylles
of
his
partye
/
There
deth
holdeth
his
standard
.
whiche
sendeth
out
thurgh
all
the
world
for
to
fetche
them
that
ben
his
/
Who
that
hath
Ioye
of
heuynesse
Thyder
come
all
euylles
and
all
the
euyll
aportes
/
this
place
is
called
the
erthe
of
deth
/
For
the
sowles
that
ben
brought
thyder
/
they
abyde
and
dwelle
there
wythout
ende
/
Certaynly
they
deye
lyuyng
/
And
alleway
lyue
deyeng
/
The
deth
is
there
their
lyf
and
their
vyande
and
mete
The
deth
holdeth
them
there
at
his
commandement
/
This
is
the
right
pytte
of
fyre
that
brennyth
.
And
all
in
lyke
wyse
as
the
stone
is
drewned
in
the
see
whan
it
is
throwen
and
sonken
/
and
neuer
shal
be
after
seen
right
so
ben
the
sowles
sonken
in
to
the
bottom
whiche
contynuelly
brenne
and
be
drowned
ther
/
but
for
al
that
they
dymynysshe
not
ne
haue
ende
.
But
in
suche
myserye
abye
their
folyes
nyght
and
day
.
and
so
shal
endure
perpetuelly
and
wythout
ende
.
For
what
someuer
thyng
that
is
spyrituel
may
neuer
dye
in
suche
wyse
that
it
be
alle
deed
/
but
the
deth
wold
they
haue
and
weesshe
after
it
incessauntly
/
the
sowle
may
neuer
deye
after
that
it
is
out
of
the
body
.
But
whan
it
is
there
/
It
shal
alleway
languysshe
/
And
euer
after
that
it
is
in
helle
it
shal
haue
nothyng
but
euyl
/
this
is
the
contre
&
the
londe
of
oblyuyon
and
forgetyng
.
For
alle
they
that
ben
there
shal
be
forgoten
.
Lyke
as
they
forgate
in
this
world
their
maker
whiche
is
ful
of
pyte
and
of
mysericorde
/
¶
And
therfore
he
hath
leyd
them
there
in
forgetyng
where
they
shal
neuer
haue
mercy
ne
pardon
in
this
londe
so
tenebrouse
hydouse
and
full
of
all
stenche
/
and
of
sorowes
.
anguysshes
.
heuynes
/
hungre
.
and
thyrste
shal
neuer
creature
haue
gladnesse
ne
Ioye
thise
ben
the
terryble
gehynes
stynknyge
/
And
there
is
fyre
so
ouer
moche
ardaunt
hote
and
anguysshous
that
our
fyre
and
the
hete
is
nomore
vnto
the
regard
of
that
fyre
of
helle
than
a
fyre
paynted
on
a
walle
is
in
conparyson
and
to
the
regard
of
our
fyre
/
There
ben
the
flodes
perylla●us
whiche
ben
of
fyre
and
of
yee
so
hydows
/
horryble
/
ful
of
venyme
and
of
fowle
beestes
that
make
so
grete
noyse
and
so
grete
grief
payne
&
ennoye
vnto
the
dolorouse
soules
that
ben
in
the
sayd
abysme
/
that
nys
creature
that
can
or
may
recounte
or
telle
the
hondred
parte
/
In
this
contre
ther
is
plente
of
other
places
whiche
ben
peryllous
and
horryble
.
And
of
them
ben
somme
in
the
see
as
wel
as
wythin
th
erthe
/
In
many
yles
that
ben
by
the
see
is
terryble
stenche
of
sulphre
ardaunt
in
grete
fyre
whiche
is
moche
paynfull
.
Ther
ben
many
grete
montaynes
of
sulphre
that
brenne
nyght
and
daye
where
as
many
sowles
ben
encombred
&
brenne
contynuelly
for
to
purge
their
synnes
and
inyquitees
/
This
may
thenne
well
suffyse
as
touchynge
to
speke
ony
more
of
this
matere
.
For
ther
is
no
creature
that
can
telle
the
grete
tormentes
and
inestymable
paynes
that
a
man
of
euyll
lyf
receyueth
for
his
demeryte
whan
he
is
departed
fro
this
world
.
For
he
gooth
euyl
to
werse
here
we
shal
cesse
for
this
present
tyme
/
and
now
saye
no
more
herof
/
And
seen
that
we
haue
spoken
wel
a
longe
of
one
of
the
foure
Elementis
whiche
is
th
erthe
/
we
shal
now
speke
of
the
seconde
/
and
that
is
of
the
water
that
alway
renneth
.
And
after
we
shal
speke
of
thayer
and
after
of
the
fyre
euerych
in
his
right
ordre
/
¶
How
the
watre
renneth
by
&
thurghe
th
erthe
/
Ca
xixo.
THe
water
that
is
the
depe
see
the
whiche
enuyronneth
and
goth
round
aboute
the
world
/
and
of
this
see
/
meuen
alle
the
flodes
and
ryuers
that
renne
thurgh
the
erthe
/
And
renne
so
ferre
their
cours
/
and
that
they
retorne
and
come
agayn
thedyr
from
whens
they
departed
/
and
that
is
the
see
/
And
thus
goth
the
see
contynuelly
tornyng
and
makyng
his
cours
that
for
so
moche
as
the
water
is
more
lyght
than
the
erthe
/
so
moche
is
it
aboue
and
is
most
next
to
th
erthe
/
She
departeth
and
deuydeth
the
contrees
/
and
she
spredeth
her
thurgh
out
alle
th
erthe
.
she
falleth
agayn
in
to
the
see
/
And
spredeth
agayn
by
the
flodes
and
ryuers
and
goth
sourdyng
and
spryngyng
in
the
erthe
from
one
place
to
another
by
vaynes
/
alle
in
lyke
wyse
as
the
blood
of
a
man
goth
and
rennth
by
the
vaynes
of
the
body
.
and
goth
out
and
yssueth
in
somme
place
/
alle
in
lyke
wyse
renneth
the
water
by
the
vaynes
of
th
erthe
and
sourdeth
and
springeth
out
by
the
fontaynes
and
welles
/
fro
whiche
it
gooth
al
aboute
.
that
whan
one
delueth
in
th
erthe
depe
in
medowe
or
in
montaygne
or
in
valeye
men
fynde
water
salte
or
swete
or
of
somme
other
maner
/
¶
How
the
water
swete
or
salte
/
hoot
or
enuenymed
sourdeth
out
of
the
erthe
.
Capitulo
xxᵒ.
ALle
watres
come
of
the
see
as
wel
the
swete
as
the
salt
.
what
someuer
they
be
/
alle
come
out
of
the
see
.
&
theder
agayn
alle
retorne
.
vherupon
somme
may
demaunde
/
syth
the
see
is
salt
.
how
is
it
that
somme
water
is
fresshe
&
swete
/
Herto
answerth
one
of
thauctours
and
sayth
that
the
water
that
hath
his
cours
by
the
swete
erthe
is
fresshe
&
swete
/
&
becometh
swete
by
the
swetenes
of
th
erthe
.
whiche
taketh
away
from
it
his
saltnes
and
his
bytternes
by
her
nature
.
For
the
water
whiche
is
salt
and
bytter
whan
it
renneth
thurgh
the
swete
erthe
.
The
swetnes
of
th
erthe
receyneth
his
bytternes
and
saltnes
/
And
thus
becometh
the
water
swete
and
fresshe
whiche
to fore
was
salt
and
byttre
Other
waters
sourden
and
spryngen
bytter
&
black
.
whiche
somme
men
drynke
for
to
be
heled
of
their
maladyes
instede
of
poyson
/
the
whiche
oftymes
make
grete
purgacions
to
somme
people
/
This
is
a
water
that
spryngeth
black
&
clere
and
renneth
in
th
erthe
whiche
is
bytter
and
black
/
&
it
is
ful
of
moche
fylthe
/
wherfore
men
haue
grete
meruaylle
/
how
it
may
be
holsom
to
the
body
of
a
man
.
In
another
place
sourdeth
water
whiche
is
hoot
.
and
that
ther
myght
be
scal●ed
therin
a
pygge
or
a
ghoos
/
whiche
ben
called
bathes
or
baynes
naturell
.
Of
suche
maner
bathes
ben
ther
in
almayne
in
the
cyte
of
Acon
.
and
in
Englond
at
bathe
/
In
lorayne
another
atte
th
abbay
of
plounners
/
and
at
Ays
in
Gascoygne
another
/
¶
This
procedeth
for
as
moche
as
wythin
th
erthe
ben
many
caues
whiche
ben
hoot
and
brennyng
as
fyre
/
And
th
erthe
hath
plente
of
vaynes
whiche
ben
alle
full
of
sulphre
/
And
ther
cometh
other
whyle
a
wynde
grete
and
stronge
the
whiche
cometh
by
the
water
that
sourdeth
.
And
that
it
put
forth
so
strongly
that
the
sulphre
catcheth
fyre
and
brenneth
.
lyke
as
a
fornayce
alle
brennyng
shold
doo
/
And
the
water
that
hath
his
cours
by
thyse
vaynes
become
also
hoot
as
fyre
/
And
yf
it
happed
that
the
water
ryght
there
shold
sprynge
out
of
erthe
/
It
shold
yssue
sourdyng
alle
enflammed
and
alle
boylyng
as
it
were
on
a
fyre
/
But
fro
as
feere
as
his
cours
renneth
fro
thens
so
moche
wexeth
it
lasse
brennyng
.
and
it
may
renne
so
longe
&
so
ferre
that
in
th
ende
it
becometh
agayn
alle
colde
/
For
ther
is
nothyng
so
hoot
but
that
it
koleth
/
sauf
only
the
fyre
of
helle
whiche
contynuelly
brenneth
/
&
shal
brenne
wythout
ende
wythin
th
erthe
is
plente
of
other
places
whiche
ben
ful
of
fowle
bestes
and
venymous
in
suche
wyse
that
the
water
that
renneth
therby
is
alle
enfeeted
and
sourdeth
in
somme
places
on
th
erthe
.
But
who
that
drynketh
therof
secheth
his
deth
/
¶
Of
dyuerse
fontaynes
and
welles
that
sourde
on
th
erthe
/
Capitulo
/
xxj
THer
ben
plente
of
fontaynes
in
other
places
that
moche
ofte
chaunge
their
colour
And
other
of
whom
come
myracles
/
but
it
is
not
wel
knowen
wherof
this
procedeth
/
In
the
londe
of
Samarye
is
a
wel
that
chaungeth
and
differenceth
his
colour
four
tymes
in
a
yere
.
Hit
is
first
grene
/
and
after
it
chaungeth
in
to
Sangwyne
and
after
it
becometh
trowble
/
And
after
alle
this
it
becometh
clere
nette
/
and
right
fyne
.
in
suche
wyse
that
men
delyte
them
in
beholdyng
of
it
/
but
no
persone
dar
drynke
of
it
In
this
partye
is
yet
another
fontayne
whiche
springeth
thre
or
four
dayes
the
weke
good
and
holsomme
/
And
the
other
thre
dayes
it
springeth
not
/
but
is
alle
drye
/
Ther
is
also
a
grete
Ryuer
that
renneth
syxe
dayes
duryng
in
the
weke
/
And
on
the
sabotte
daye
it
renneth
not
/
For
assone
as
the
sabbotte
day
approcheth
/
he
rebouteth
and
goth
into
th
erthe
agayn
/
By
acres
the
Cyte
is
founden
a
maner
of
sande
.
And
there
is
founden
also
of
the
glayre
of
the
see
/
Whiche
ben
medled
to gydre
/
And
of
thyse
two
myxtyons
is
made
good
glasse
and
clere
/
In
Egypte
is
the
rede
see
/
where
the
children
of
Israhel
passed
ouer
drye
foote
for
to
come
in
to
the
londe
of
byheste
.
This
see
taketh
his
name
of
th
erthe
/
For
th
erthe
is
alle
rede
in
the
bottom
and
on
the
sydes
in
suche
wyse
that
the
water
of
this
see
semed
alle
reed
/
In
perse
is
a
ryuer
longe
and
brode
whiche
in
the
nyght
is
so
hard
frozen
.
that
people
may
goo
ouer
a
foot
&
trauerse
it
/
And
on
daye
tyme
it
is
cleer
and
rennyng
/
ther
is
in
Espyre
a
welle
of
whiche
the
nature
is
meruayllous
that
whiche
quencheth
brondes
of
fyre
all
brennyng
/
&
after
it
setteth
them
a
fyre
agayn
In
ethyope
is
another
whiche
by
nyght
hath
so
grete
hete
that
no
creature
may
thenne
drynke
therof
/
And
alle
the
daye
it
is
so
colde
that
it
is
frorn
alle
harde
/
In
lorayne
nygh
vnto
metm
the
cyte
is
a
water
that
renneth
there
/
the
whiche
is
soden
in
grete
payelles
of
copper
.
and
it
becometh
falt
fayr
and
good
/
And
this
water
furnyssheth
alle
the
contre
of
salt
/
And
this
water
sourdeth
of
a
pitte
whiche
is
the
pitte
of
Dauyd
/
In
this
contre
ben
other
fontaynes
that
ben
so
hoot
that
it
brenneth
alle
that
is
toucheth
/
In
the
same
place
sourde
&
sprynge
other
that
ben
as
colde
as
yce
.
There
ben
baynes
wel
attempryd
and
medlyd
wyth
colde
water
and
hoot
/
And
they
that
bayne
them
in
thyse
baynes
/
their
scables
and
soores
become
all
hool
.
Yet
ther
be
of
other
fontaynes
right
black
whiche
ben
holden
right
holsom
/
and
people
drynke
of
them
in
stede
of
medecynes
/
And
they
make
oftyme
grete
purgacyons
/
and
gretter
than
of
a
medycyne
or
a
laxatysf
/
Another
fontayne
ther
is
toward
the
Oryent
wherof
is
made
fyre
grekyssh
wyth
other
myxtyons
that
is
put
therto
the
whiche
fyre
whan
it
is
taken
and
lyght
is
so
hoot
/
that
it
can
not
be
quenchid
wyth
water
/
But
wyth
aysel
/
vryne
.
or
wyth
sonde
only
.
The
sarasyns
selle
this
water
right
dere
and
derrer
than
they
doo
good
wyne
.
Other
fontaynes
sourden
in
many
other
places
that
he
le
sore
eyen
&
many
soores
and
woundes
/
Other
fontaynes
ther
be
that
rendre
to
a
man
his
mynde
and
memorye
.
Other
make
men
to
forgete
Other
that
refrayne
people
fro
lecherye
.
other
that
meue
them
therto
.
Other
ther
be
that
make
wymmen
to
conceyue
and
bere
children
.
And
other
that
make
them
bareyne
and
may
bere
none
/
Ther
ben
somme
ryuers
that
make
sheep
black
/
And
other
that
make
them
whyte
as
the
lylye
.
On
that
other
syde
the●
ben
many
pondes
or
stagnes
in
whiche
may
nothyng
swymme
man
ne
hounde
ne
other
beste
but
anon
it
synketh
doun
to
the
bottom
/
Ther
ben
other
in
whiche
nothyng
may
synke
.
but
contynuelly
flote
aboue
/
Ther
ben
yet
other
fontaynes
hoot
.
that
blynde
the
theues
whan
they
forswere
them
of
the
trespaas
that
they
haue
commysed
touchyng
their
thefte
.
And
yf
they
be
charged
and
born
wrongly
on
honde
wythout
reson
and
thenne
drynke
of
this
water
.
certaynly
they
shal
haue
better
sight
than
tofore
¶
Of
alle
thyse
thynges
can
noman
rendre
the
reson
/
but
that
we
ought
to
vnderstonde
that
alle
this
procedeth
by
myracle
/
Yet
ben
ther
other
fontaynes
whiche
ben
styll
and
clere
/
Whiche
that
whan
men
pleye
ouer
them
wyth
harpe
or
other
instrumentis
that
resowne
in
maner
of
consolacion
by
their
sowne
/
The
water
of
those
wellys
sprynge
vp
wyth
grete
bobles
and
sprynge
ouer
in
the
waye
/
Other
fontaynes
ben
in
other
places
whiche
ben
right
peryllous
/
But
for
this
present
we
shal
reste
her
wyth
all
.
For
to
telle
of
this
that
cometh
by
the
waters
.
whiche
holde
their
cours
wythin
th
erthe
and
also
aboue
.
of
whiche
it
happeth
other
while
so
grete
a
quauyng
that
the
erthe
meueth
so
strongly
/
that
it
behoueth
to
falle
alle
that
whiche
is
theron
thaugh
it
were
a
massyue
tour
/
¶
Wherfor
and
how
the
erthe
quaueth
and
trembleth
Capitulo
xxijo.
NOw
vnderstande
ye
thenne
/
what
it
is
of
the
meuyng
of
the
erthe
/
And
how
the
erthe
quaueth
and
shaketh
that
somme
people
calle
an
erthe
quaue
/
by
cause
they
fele
th
erthe
meue
and
quaue
vnder
theyr
feet
.
And
oftymes
it
quaueth
so
terrybly
and
meueth
that
somtyme
Cytees
ben
sonken
in
to
th
erthe
that
neuer
after
be
seen
/
And
this
cometh
of
the
grete
waters
that
come
wythin
th
erthe
.
so
that
by
the
puttyng
out
of
the
grete
flodes
and
waters
growe
somme
tyme
cauernes
vnder
th
erthe
/
And
the
ayer
that
is
shette
fast
wythin
/
the
whiche
is
enclosed
in
grete
distresse
.
Yf
th
erthe
be
there
feble
so
that
it
may
not
reteyne
it
all
wythin
.
thenne
is
it
constrayned
to
opene
&
cleue
.
For
ayer
enforceth
to
yssue
out
/
wherof
it
happeth
ofte
that
townes
cytees
and
castellys
ben
sonken
doun
into
the
abysme
.
And
yf
th
erthe
be
of
suche
force
and
strengthe
that
it
openeth
not
ne
cleueth
by
the
shouynge
or
heuynge
of
the
wyndes
that
ben
wythin
/
Thenne
th
erthe
meueth
&
quaueth
so
meruayllously
that
the
grete
walles
and
hye
towres
that
ben
theron
falle
doun
so
sodenly
in
th
erthe
that
it
destroyeth
and
sleeth
the
people
that
ben
therin
whiche
ben
not
aduysed
ne
pourueyed
of
suche
daungers
.
Whiche
is
a
grete
sorowe
for
the
pour
peple
that
dwelle
where
suche
meschief
happeth
/
whan
they
be
not
aduertysed
at
what
tyme
suche
tempeste
shal
come
for
t
eschewe
it
.
But
wyse
men
that
doubte
for
to
deye
arme
them
and
make
them
redy
ayenst
the
deth
/
And
gyue
alle
dylygence
for
to
seche
to
haue
accordaunce
vnto
the
souerayn
Iudge
/
of
their
synnes
and
defaultes
after
their
lawe
and
byleue
that
they
haue
/
as
they
that
haue
none
houre
ne
space
to
lyue
where
as
/
they
ben
hool
and
wel
at
ease
/
Thus
the
water
and
the
wynde
maken
the
right
meuyng
and
quauyng
by
whiche
the
erthe
cleueth
and
quaueth
/
¶
How
the
water
of
the
see
becometh
salt
.
Capitulo
.
xxiij
NOw
I
wyl
recounte
and
telle
to
yow
how
the
water
of
the
see
becometh
salt
.
whiche
is
so
bittre
that
no
persone
may
drynke
ne
the
bestys
in
lyke
wyse
hit
cometh
by
the
sonne
on
hye
/
For
it
maketh
so
grete
hete
in
somme
place
/
that
the
see
is
chauffed
so
strongly
that
th
erthe
whiche
is
vnder
draweth
to
hym
a
moysture
byttre
/
which
taketh
away
alle
sauour
/
For
in
the
see
ben
right
grete
and
hye
montaynes
and
depe
valeyes
whiche
ben
ful
of
bitternesses
greuous
and
infected
/
And
the
erthe
whiche
is
in
the
bottom
of
thyse
valeyes
scumeth
for
the
heete
of
the
sonne
vpward
/
Whiche
medleth
wyth
the
water
in
the
depe
in
suche
wyse
that
it
draweth
the
saltnes
vp
by
the
hete
of
the
sonne
so
longe
tyl
it
be
medlyd
wyth
that
other
/
And
thus
is
the
water
of
the
see
salt
wyth
that
other
/
Thenne
we
shall
here
fynysshe
to
speke
ony
more
of
the
watres
fressh
or
salt
/
And
shal
recounte
to
yow
of
the
Ayer
whiche
is
one
of
the
iiij
Elementis
and
of
his
propretees
/
¶
Here
foloweth
of
Ayer
and
of
his
nature
/
Ca
xxiiij
THe
Ayer
is
sette
aboue
the
water
/
&
is
moche
more
subtyl
than
the
water
or
the
erthe
/
and
enuyronneth
th
erthe
on
alle
partyes
/
and
domyneth
also
hye
as
the
clowdes
mounte
/
This
ayer
which
enuyronneth
vs
on
all
sydes
is
moche
thycke
/
But
we
lyue
therby
in
lyke
wyse
as
the
fysshe
lyueth
by
the
water
.
whiche
he
draweth
in
and
after
casteth
it
out
agayn
.
In
suche
maner
the
ayer
prouffyteth
to
vs
/
For
we
drawe
it
in
/
and
after
we
put
it
out
agayn
And
thus
it
holdeth
the
lyf
wythin
the
body
/
For
a
man
shold
sonner
deye
wythout
ayer
than
a
fysshe
shold
doo
wyth
out
water
to
whom
the
lyf
is
sone
fynysshid
whan
it
is
out
of
the
water
/
Thayer
maynteneth
in
vs
the
lyf
by
the
moysture
that
is
in
hym
/
And
by
the
thycknes
that
is
in
hym
he
susteyneth
the
byrdes
fleeyng
that
so
playe
wyth
their
wynges
and
meue
them
so
moche
al
aboute
therin
that
they
disporte
them
ledyng
their
Ioye
therin
and
their
deduyt
▪
Thus
goon
the
byrdes
by
thayer
fleyng
/
syngyng
and
preysyng
their
maker
and
creatour
/
lyke
as
the
fysshes
that
goon
swymmyng
in
the
water
/
And
ye
may
apperceyue
in
this
maner
.
take
a
rodde
and
meue
it
in
thayer
/
and
yf
ye
meue
it
fast
and
roydly
it
shal
bowe
anon
/
And
yf
it
fonde
not
thayer
thycke
it
shold
not
bowe
ne
ploye
/
but
shold
holde
him
strayght
and
right
/
how
faste
someuer
ye
meued
it
.
of
this
Ayer
the
euyl
esperytes
take
their
habyte
/
and
their
bodyes
whiche
in
somtyme
put
them
in
the
semblaunce
of
somme
thynges
as
whan
they
may
appere
in
som
place
for
to
deceyue
som
persone
man
or
woman
.
or
for
to
make
them
to
yssue
out
of
their
mynde
/
wherof
they
haue
sometyme
thou
might
Or
whan
by
the
arte
of
nygromancye
he
putteth
hym
in
somme
semblaunce
or
in
suche
a
fygure
as
he
wylle
/
But
this
is
a
science
that
who
that
gyueth
hym
therto
to
doo
euyl
.
hit
gyueth
hym
the
deth
.
For
yf
he
taketh
not
hede
therof
.
he
shal
be
dampned
body
and
sowle
.
But
we
shal
enquyre
here
after
what
cometh
fro
thayer
in
to
th
erthe
.
¶
How
the
clowdes
&
rayn
come
comynly
.
Ca.
xxv
NOw
we
shal
speke
of
the
clowdes
for
to
knowe
what
it
is
and
of
the
rayne
also
.
The
sonne
is
the
foundement
of
alle
hete
and
of
alle
tyme
.
all
in
suche
wyse
as
the
herte
of
a
man
is
the
foundement
by
his
valour
that
is
in
hym
of
all
natural
hete
.
For
by
hym
he
hath
lyf
.
&
all
lyueth
by
hym
that
groweth
on
th
erthe
as
it
pleseth
to
our
lord
/
as
here
after
shal
be
declared
yf
ye
wyl
here
and
well
reteyne
the
mater
and
substaunce
of
this
present
beoke
/
for
the
sonne
maketh
the
clowdes
to
mounte
on
hye
.
and
after
it
maketh
the
rayne
and
to
auale
doun
.
And
I
shal
shewe
to
yow
how
it
is
doon
&
shortly
/
by
his
force
/
and
vnderstande
ye
in
what
manere
whan
the
sonne
spredeth
his
rayes
vpon
th
erthe
&
vpon
the
mareys
.
he
dreyeth
them
strongely
And
draweth
vp
the
moysture
whiche
he
enhaunseth
on
hye
/
But
this
is
a
moysture
subtyl
whiche
appereth
but
lytyl
and
is
named
vapour
/
and
it
mounteth
vnto
the
myddle
of
thayer
&
there
is
assembled
and
cometh
to
gydre
and
abydeth
there
/
And
lytyl
&
lytyl
it
encreceth
that
it
cometh
thycke
&
derke
in
suche
wyse
that
it
taketh
fro
vs
the
syght
of
the
sonne
/
And
this
thynge
is
the
clowde
/
But
it
hath
not
so
moche
obscurete
that
it
taketh
fro
vs
the
clerenes
of
the
day
/
And
whan
it
groweth
ouer
thycke
it
becometh
water
whiche
falleth
on
the
erthe
/
and
the
clowde
abydeth
whyte
.
thenne
shyneth
the
sonne
/
whiche
is
on
hye
thurgh
the
clowde
/
Yf
it
be
not
ouer
black
.
lyke
as
thurgh
aglasse
/
Also
lyke
a
candel
wythin
a
lanterne
.
whiche
gyueth
vs
lyght
wythout
forth
.
and
yet
we
see
not
the
candel
/
Thus
shyneth
the
sonne
thurgh
the
clowde
whiche
is
vnder
hym
and
rendreth
to
vs
the
clerenesse
of
the
day
/
as
longe
as
he
maketh
his
tourne
aboue
th
erthe
.
And
the
clowde
that
alwaye
so
longe
abydeth
and
taketh
more
moysture
/
so
longe
after
/
that
it
becometh
black
and
moyste
/
Thenne
yssueth
out
the
water
whiche
cometh
to
th
erthe
/
and
thus
groweth
the
rayne
.
And
whan
it
is
alle
fallen
to
th
erthe
.
and
the
grete
moysture
is
staunched
the
clowde
hath
lost
his
broun
colour
that
he
byfore
helde
and
the
derkenesse
of
whiche
she
empesshid
the
day
.
Thenne
aperith
the
clowde
clere
and
whyte
whiche
thenne
is
lyght
and
mounteth
on
hye
somoche
that
in
th
ende
she
falleth
and
is
deffeted
by
the
hete
of
the
sonne
on
hye
whiche
al
dreyeth
vp
/
Thenne
thayer
wexeth
agayn
pure
and
clere
/
and
the
heuen
as
blew
as
azure
/
Of
th
erthe
groweth
the
rayn
and
the
clowdes
also
/
as
of
cloth
that
is
weet
/
and
shold
be
dreyed
by
the
fyre
.
thenne
yssueth
therof
a
moysture
lyke
a
smoke
or
fumee
and
gooth
vpward
.
who
thenne
helde
his
hande
ouer
the
fumee
/
he
shold
fele
a
vapour
whiche
shold
make
his
hande
moyst
and
weet
/
Yf
it
dured
longe
he
shold
appertly
knowe
that
his
hande
were
alle
weet
/
and
that
water
shold
droppe
and
falle
therof
/
And
thus
I
saye
to
yow
that
in
this
maner
growe
ofte
the
clowdes
and
raynes
/
and
our
lord
god
multyplyeth
wel
them
whan
it
pleseth
hym
for
to
make
the
seedes
and
fruytes
growe
that
ben
on
th
erthe
/
¶
Of
frostes
and
snowes
/
Capitulo
.
xxvj
THe
grete
snowes
and
the
grete
frostes
comen
by
the
grete
coldes
of
thayer
whiche
is
colde
in
the
myddle
more
than
it
is
on
ony
other
parte
.
lyke
as
ye
may
see
of
the
montaynes
whiche
ben
in
hye
place
.
lyke
as
the
montaynes
of
sauoye
.
of
pyemont
or
in
wales
.
&
in
thise
other
montaynes
.
where
ther
is
of
custome
more
snowe
.
than
is
in
places
that
ben
in
playn
grounde
.
Alle
this
cometh
of
the
coldnes
of
thayer
.
whiche
hath
lasse
hete
aboue
.
than
benethe
by
cause
it
is
more
subtyl
/
than
that
whiche
is
bynethe
/
and
whan
the
more
subtyl
is
on
hye
so
moche
reteyneth
he
lasse
of
hete
.
But
the
more
that
thayer
is
thycke
somoche
more
it
chauffeth
.
and
the
sonner
where
the
sonne
may
come
/
¶
Of
whiche
cometh
that
yron
and
steel
wexe
more
hoot
by
the
sonne
than
dooth
the
stone
.
For
of
so
moche
as
the
thynge
is
more
hard
and
of
more
thyck
mater
/
so
moche
taketh
it
the
fyre
more
asprely
&
sonner
than
they
that
ben
of
lasse
force
/
Thus
saye
I
to
yow
of
thayer
that
is
aboue
on
hye
.
whiche
is
more
c●lde
than
this
is
bynethe
/
For
as
moche
as
it
is
not
so
thycke
as
that
is
whiche
is
nyghe
th
erthe
/
And
for
the
wynde
that
ofte
groweth
.
Whiche
maketh
it
ofte
to
be
in
meuyng
/
For
the
water
that
renneth
faste
eschausfeth
lasse
than
that
doth
that
holdeth
hym
stylle
/
So
doth
thayer
whiche
is
an
hye
/
And
therby
groweth
the
colde
that
freseth
this
moysture
anon
as
it
is
goon
vp
on
hye
/
And
falleth
doun
agayn
y frorn
/
¶
Of
haylle
and
of
tempestes
/
Capitulo
.
xxvij
BY
this
manere
comen
in
the
somer
the
grete
haylleso.
and
the
grete
tempestes
/
For
in
thayer
they
growe
/
wherof
oftyme
cometh
grete
colde
so
that
the
moysture
that
is
in
thayer
brought
vp
/
is
drawen
to
be
frorn
.
And
it
is
in
thayer
assembled
and
amassed
/
For
the
hete
that
chaceth
after
it
/
And
the
sonne
causeth
it
to
lose
and
to
falle
on
th
erthe
/
But
it
falleth
not
so
grete
to
the
grounde
as
it
is
frorn
aboue
an
hye
/
For
it
cometh
doun
brekyng
and
amenuysyng
in
the
fallyng
/
And
this
is
the
tempest
whiche
falleth
ofte
in
the
somer
/
the
whiche
is
greuous
and
ennoyous
to
many
thynges
/
¶
Of
lyghtnynges
and
of
thondres
/
Capitulo
/
xxviijo.
IN
thayer
happen
many
thinges
of
whiche
the
people
speke
not
gladly
/
For
they
retche
not
moche
of
suche
thynges
of
whiche
they
can
not
wel
come
to
the
knowleche
/
This
that
maketh
th
erthe
to
quaue
.
And
this
that
maketh
the
clowdes
to
thondre
/
that
whiche
maketh
the
erthe
to
opene
/
And
this
that
maketh
the
clowdes
to
sparkle
and
lyghtne
whan
the
thondre
is
herde
/
For
thondres
and
lyghtnynges
ben
deboutemens
and
brekyng
out
of
wyndes
that
mete
aboue
the
clowdes
so
asprely
and
shdrply
/
that
in
theyr
comyng
groweth
ofte
a
grete
fyre
in
thayer
/
And
this
thondre
that
falleth
in
many
places
whiche
the
wyndes
constrayne
so
terrybly
that
the
clowdes
cleue
and
breke
and
maketh
to
thondre
and
lyghtne
&
falleth
doun
in
so
grete
rage
by
the
wynde
that
destrayneth
it
so
asprely
that
it
confoundeth
alle
that
it
atteyneth
in
suche
wyse
that
nothyng
endureth
ayenst
it
/
And
it
is
of
so
heuy
nature
that
somtyme
it
perseth
th
erthe
vnto
the
myddle
.
And
somtyme
it
quencheth
er
it
cometh
to
the
grounde
after
that
it
is
of
poyse
/
and
that
is
not
of
ouer
stronge
nature
.
For
whan
the
clowde
is
moche
derke
/
and
thycke
and
that
ther
is
grete
plente
of
water
/
the
fyre
passeth
not
so
soone
.
but
it
is
quenchid
in
the
clowde
by
the
grete
quantyte
of
the
water
that
is
therin
byfore
it
may
perse
thurgh
so
that
it
may
not
approche
th
erthe
/
but
in
the
straynyng
&
brekyng
that
hit
maketh
thenne
in
the
clowde
.
groweth
a
sowne
so
grete
and
stronge
/
that
it
is
meruayllous
to
here
I
declare
to
you
for
certayn
that
this
is
the
thondre
.
whiche
is
moche
to
be
doubted
&
drad
/
In
lyke
wyse
as
of
an
hoot
&
brennyng
yron
that
is
put
in
a
tubbe
of
water
therof
groweth
a
noyse
&
a
grete
sowne
&
also
whan
cooles
ben
quenchid
/
But
the
lyghtnyng
of
the
thondre
appereth
and
is
seen
er
ye
here
the
voys
or
sowne
.
for
as
moche
as
the
sight
of
a
man
is
more
subtyl
than
the
heeryng
lyke
as
men
see
fro
ferre
ouer
a
water
betyng
of
clothes
or
smytyng
of
marteaulx
or
hamers
/
the
strokes
ben
seen
of
them
that
smyte
.
or
the
soun
be
herde
of
the
stroke
.
Alle
in
lyke
wyse
may
I
saye
to
yow
of
the
thondre
/
the
whiche
men
see
to fore
and
er
they
here
it
/
and
so
moche
the
ferther
it
is
aboue
vs
.
so
moche
the
ferther
is
the
soun
of
the
lyghtnyng
after
it
is
seen
/
er
the
soun
be
herd
/
&
the
sonner
after
the
lyghtnyng
is
seen
&
the
yon
herd
somoche
is
the
thondre
more
nygh
vnto
vs
/
¶
For
to
knowe
how
the
wyndes
growe
&
come
.
ca.
xxixᵒ
OF
the
wyndes
may
men
enquire
reson
of
them
that
vse
the
sees
/
And
the
wyndes
renne
round
aboue
th
erthe
oftymes
/
and
entrecounte
and
mete
in
som
place
so
asprely
/
that
they
ryse
vpon
heyght
in
suche
wyse
that
they
lyft
vp
thayer
on
hye
And
thayer
that
is
so
lyft
and
taken
fro
his
place
/
remeueth
other
ayer
in
suche
facion
that
it
retorneth
as
it
were
afterward
and
gooth
cryeng
and
brayeng
as
water
rennyng
/
For
wynde
is
none
other
thyng
but
ayer
that
is
meuyd
so
longe
tyl
his
force
be
beten
doun
wyth
the
stroke
/
Thus
come
ofte
clowdes
ray●es
thondres
and
lyghtnynges
/
and
the
thynges
tofo●●
sayd
/
Ther
ben
yet
other
resons
how
these
werkes
comen
/
But
thyse
that
beste
serue
to
knowelege
and
lyghtly
to
be
vnderstonde
we
haue
drawen
out
shortly
.
and
now
we
shal
cesse
of
this
mater
for
to
speke
of
the
fyre
whiche
is
aboue
the
ayer
on
hye
/
¶
Of
the
fyre
and
of
the
sterres
that
seme
to
falle
/
Capitulo
.
xxxo.
YE
ought
to
knowe
that
aboue
thayer
is
the
fyre
/
this
is
an
ayer
whiche
is
of
moche
grete
resplendour
and
shynyng
and
of
moche
grete
noblesse
/
&
by
his
right
grete
subtylte
he
hath
no
moysture
in
hym
.
And
is
moche
more
clere
than
the
fyre
that
we
vse
/
and
of
more
subtyl
nature
/
than
thayer
is
ayenst
the
water
,
or
also
the
water
ayenst
the
erthe
/
This
ayer
in
whiche
is
no
maner
moysture
/
It
stratcheth
vnto
the
mone
/
And
ther
is
seen
ofte
vnder
this
ayer
somme
sparkles
of
fyre
/
and
seme
that
they
were
sterres
of
whiche
men
saye
they
be
sterres
.
whiche
goon
rennyng
/
and
that
they
remeue
fro
their
places
.
But
they
be
none
/
but
it
is
a
maner
of
fyre
that
groweth
in
thayer
of
somme
drye
vapour
.
whiche
▪
hath
no
moysture
wythin
it
/
whiche
is
of
th
erthe
and
therof
groweth
by
the
sonne
whiche
draweth
it
vpon
hye
/
&
whan
it
is
ouer
hye
it
falleth
&
is
sette
a
fyre
lyke
as
a
candel
brennyng
as
vs
semeth
.
&
after
falleth
in
thayer
moyste
and
ther
is
quenchid
by
the
moystnes
of
thayer
/
And
whan
it
is
grete
&
the
ayer
drye
it
cometh
al
brennyng
vnto
th
erthe
/
wherof
it
happeth
ofte
that
they
that
saylle
by
the
see
or
they
that
goon
by
londe
haue
many
tymes
founden
and
seen
them
al
shynyng
&
brennyng
falle
vnto
th
erthe
.
&
whan
they
come
where
it
is
fallen
they
fynde
none
other
thyng
but
a
lytyl
ass●es
or
like
thing
or
lyke
som
leef
of
a
tree
roten
.
that
were
weet
/
Thenne
apperceyue
they
well
and
byleue
that
it
is
no
sterre
.
For
the
sterres
may
not
falle
/
but
they
muste
alle
in
their
cercle
meue
ordynatly
and
contynuelly
nyght
&
day
egally
/
¶
Of
the
pure
Ayer
and
how
the
seuen
planetes
ben
sette
/
Capitulo
.
xxxjo.
THe
pure
ayer
is
aboue
the
fire
whiche
purpryseth
&
taketh
his
place
vnto
the
heuen
/
In
this
ayer
is
no
obscurte
ne
derknes
/
For
it
was
made
of
clere
purete
it
resplendissheth
&
shyneth
so
clerly
that
it
may
to
nothyng
be
compared
/
in
this
ayer
ben
vij
sterres
whiche
make
their
cours
al
aboute
th
erthe
/
The
whiche
be
muche
clene
&
clere
&
be
named
the
vij
planetes
/
of
whome
that
one
is
sette
aboue
that
other
&
in
suche
wyse
ordeyned
that
ther
is
more
space
fro
that
one
to
the
other
/
Than
ther
is
from
the
erthe
to
the
mone
whiche
is
ferther
fyften
tymes
than
all
the
erthe
is
grete
and
euerich
renneth
by
myracle
on
the
firmament
&
maketh
his
cercle
that
one
grete
&
that
other
lytyl
after
that
it
is
&
sitteth
more
lowe
/
For
af
somoche
that
it
maketh
his
cours
more
nyghe
th
erthe
/
so
moche
is
it
more
short
/
&
sonner
hath
perfourmed
his
cours
/
than
that
whiche
is
ferthest
/
that
is
to
saye
that
who
that
made
a
poynt
in
a
walle
and
wyth
a
compaas
made
dyuerse
cercles
aboute
.
alway
that
one
more
large
than
another
/
That
whiche
shold
be
next
the
poynt
shold
be
lest
of
the
other
&
lasse
shold
be
his
cours
/
for
he
shold
sonner
haue
don
his
cours
than
the
grettest
/
so
that
they
wente
both
egally
as
ye
may
see
by
this
fygure
to fore
/
THus
we
may
vnderstande
of
the
vij
planetes
of
whiche
I
haue
spoken
that
/
that
one
is
vnder
that
other
/
in
suche
wyse
that
she
that
is
lowest
of
alle
the
other
is
leest
of
all
and
that
is
the
mone
/
but
by
cause
that
it
is
next
to
th
erthe
/
it
semeth
grettest
and
most
apparaunt
of
alle
the
other
.
and
for
th
approchement
of
th
erthe
and
bycause
it
goth
so
nygh
.
it
hath
not
pure
clerenes
that
cometh
of
hym self
proprely
by
cause
th
erthe
is
so
obscure
/
but
the
clernes
&
lyght
that
it
rendreth
to
vs
/
she
taketh
alway
of
the
sonne
/
lyke
as
shold
a
myrrour
whan
the
rayes
of
the
sonne
smyteth
therin
and
of
the
reflexyon
the
myrrour
smyteth
on
the
walle
and
shyneth
theron
as
longe
as
the
rayes
of
the
sonne
endure
in
the
glasse
/
In
lyke
maner
sheweth
&
lyghteth
to
vs
the
lyght
of
the
mone
/
&
in
the
mone
is
a
body
polysshyd
&
fayr
lyke
a
pommell
right
wel
burnysshed
.
Whiche
reflaumbeth
and
rendryth
lyght
and
clerenes
whan
the
rayes
of
the
sonne
smyteth
therin
/
The
lytyl
clowdes
or
derkenes
that
is
seen
therin
.
somme
saye
that
it
is
th
erthe
that
appereth
wythin
/
And
that
whiche
is
water
appereth
whyte
lyke
as
ayenst
a
myrrour
whiche
receyueth
dyuerse
colours
/
whan
she
is
torned
therto
.
other
thynke
other
wyse
&
saye
that
it
happed
&
byfelle
whan
adam
was
deceyued
by
th
apple
that
he
ete
.
whiche
greued
alle
humanye
lygnage
/
And
that
thenne
the
mone
was
empesshed
and
his
clerenesse
lassed
and
mynuysshed
.
Of
thyse
vij
sterres
or
planetes
that
ben
there
and
make
their
cours
on
the
firmament
of
whom
we
haue
here
to fore
spoken
.
First
were
no
moo
knowen
but
the
tweyne
/
that
is
to
wete
the
sonne
&
the
mone
.
the
other
were
not
knowen
but
by
Astronomye
/
Neuertheles
yet
shal
I
name
them
for
as
we
haue
spoken
of
them
to
yow
/
of
thyse
ther
ben
tweyne
aboue
the
mone
&
byneth
the
sonne
and
that
one
aboue
that
other
of
whom
eche
hath
on
th
erthe
propre
vertues
/
And
they
named
mercurye
&
venus
/
Thenne
aboue
the
mone
and
thyse
tweyne
.
is
the
sonne
/
whiche
is
so
clere
fayr
&
pure
/
that
it
rendreth
lyght
&
clerenesse
vnto
alle
the
world
and
the
sonne
is
sette
so
hye
aboue
/
that
his
cercle
is
gretter
&
more
spacyouse
than
the
cercle
of
the
mone
.
whiche
maketh
his
cours
in
xxx
dayes
xij
sithes
so
moche
/
For
the
sonne
whiche
gooth
more
ferther
fro
the
erthe
than
the
mone
maketh
his
cours
/
hath
CCClxv
dayes
.
this
is
xij
tyme
somoche
&
more
ouer
as
the
calender
enseigneth
/
&
yet
more
the
fourth
part
of
a
day
/
that
be
vj
houres
.
but
for
this
that
the
yere
hath
dyuersly
his
begynnyng
that
one
begynneth
on
the
daye
and
another
on
the
nyght
whiche
is
grete
ennoye
to
moche
people
this
part
of
a
day
is
sette
by
cause
alleway
in
iiij
yere
is
a
daye
consumed
whiche
is
aboue
in
that
space
the
whiche
yere
is
named
bysexte
or
lepe
yere
whiche
in
iiij
yere
falleth
ones
/
&
so
is
sette
fro
foure
yere
to
foure
yere
alway
more
a
daye
.
&
thenne
is
the
sonne
comen
agayn
in
his
first
poynt
/
And
that
is
in
the
myd
marche
/
whan
the
newe
tyme
recomenceth
/
&
that
all
thynges
drawe
to
loue
by
the
vertu
of
the
retorne
of
the
sonne
/
for
in
this
season
had
the
world
first
his
begynnyng
/
&
therfore
thenne
alle
thyng
reneweth
and
cometh
in
verdure
by
right
nature
/
of
the
tyme
and
none
otherwyse
/
Aboue
the
sonne
ther
be
thre
sterres
clere
and
shynyng
/
and
one
aboue
another
/
That
is
to
wete
mars
iupiter
&
saturnus
/
Saturne
is
hyest
of
the
seuen
whiche
hath
in
his
cours
xxx
yere
er
he
hath
all
goon
his
cercle
/
&
thyse
iij
sterres
reteyne
their
vertues
in
thynges
here
bynethe
&
ye
may
see
yf
ye
beholde
this
figure
how
they
be
in
ordre
eche
aboue
other
whiche
fygure
sheweth
it
well
/
¶
How
the
vij
planetes
gyue
the
names
to
the
vij
dayes
/
Capitulo
/
xxxijo.
Thise
vij
planetes
ben
suche
that
they
haue
power
on
thinges
that
growe
on
th
erthe
&
habounde
their
vertues
more
than
all
the
other
that
ben
on
the
firmament
&
more
appertli
werke
lyke
as
th auncient
sage
philosophers
haue
enserched
by
their
wyttes
of
thyse
vij
planetes
taken
the
dayes
of
the
weke
their
names
as
ye
shal
here
/
The
mone
hath
the
monday
/
&
mars
the
tewsday
/
mercurye
the
wednesday
/
Iupiter
the
thursday
.
venus
the
fryday
saturnus
the
saterday
.
&
the
holy
sonday
hath
his
name
of
the
sonne
/
whiche
is
the
most
fayr
.
&
therfor
the
sonday
is
better
than
ony
of
the
other
dayes
of
the
weke
/
For
this
day
is
sette
&
reseruyd
from
alle
payne
&
labour
/
And
on
this
day
shold
men
doo
thyngis
that
shold
playse
our
lord
/
but
syth
in
this
chapytre
we
haue
touched
of
the
firmament
we
shal
speke
after
of
somme
caas
that
come
on
the
heuen
and
th
erthe
.
The
sonday
is
as
moche
to
saye
as
the
daye
of
pees
and
of
praysinge
/
For
the
creatour
of
alle
thynges
cessed
this
day
/
the
whiche
made
and
created
all
/
¶
Of
the
meuyng
and
goyng
aboute
of
the
firmament
&
of
the
sterres
that
ben
therin
/
Capitulo
.
xxxii●o.
ABoue
saturne
whiche
is
the
last
planete
/
and
hyest
from
vs
of
alle
the
vij
planetes
is
the
heuen
that
men
see
so
full
of
sterres
as
it
were
sowen
.
whan
it
is
clere
tyme
and
weder
/
This
heuen
that
is
so
sterryd
is
the
firmament
whiche
meueth
and
goth
round
of
whiche
meuyng
is
so
grete
Ioye
so
grete
melodye
and
so
swete
/
that
ther
is
noman
that
yf
he
myght
here
it
that
neuer
after
shold
haue
talente
ne
wylle
to
do
thynge
that
were
contrarye
vnto
our
lord
in
ony
thinge
that
myght
be
.
so
moche
shold
he
desire
to
come
theder
where
he
myght
alleway
here
so
swete
melodyes
and
be
alway
wyth
them
wherrof
somme
were
somtyme
that
saide
that
lytyl
yonge
children
herde
this
melodye
whan
they
lawghed
in
their
slepe
/
For
it
is
said
that
thenne
they
here
the
angels
of
our
lord
in
heuen
synge
wherof
they
haue
suche
Ioye
in
their
slepe
/
But
herof
knoweth
noman
the
trouthe
sauf
god
that
knoweth
all
/
Whiche
setted
the
sterres
on
the
heuen
and
made
them
to
haue
suche
power
.
For
ther
is
nothinge
wythin
the
erthe
ne
wythin
the
see
/
how
dyuerse
it
be
.
but
it
is
on
the
heuen
fygured
and
compassed
by
the
sterres
.
of
whiche
none
knoweth
the
nombre
sauf
god
only
/
whiche
at
his
playsir
nombreth
them
&
knoweth
the
name
of
eueriche
of
them
as
he
that
alle
knoweth
and
alle
created
by
good
reason
at
the
regard
of
the
sterres
that
may
be
seen
they
may
be
wel
nombred
and
enquyred
by
Astronomye
.
but
it
is
a
moche
maystryse
.
For
ther
ne
is
sterre
so
lytyl
.
But
that
it
hath
in
hym
hole
his
vertue
/
In
herbe
.
in
flour
/
or
in
fruyt
be
it
in
facion
/
in
colour
or
otherwyse
/
Ther
is
nothing
in
erth
that
ought
to
be
.
ne
therin
hath
growyng
but
somme
sterre
hath
strengthe
and
puyssaunce
by
nature
/
is
it
good
or
otherwyse
suche
as
god
hath
gyuen
to
it
/
And
for
the
firmament
and
for
the
planetes
take
this
fygure
to fore
on
that
other
syde
/
and
ye
shal
see
therin
the
sytuacyon
of
them
/
BVt
syth
we
haue
descriued
and
spoken
of
the
firmament
in
this
second
partye
of
this
volume
/
we
shal
speke
of
somme
caases
that
come
and
happen
on
hye
and
also
lowe
.
And
shal
speke
of
the
mesure
of
the
firmament
.
For
to
vnder
stande
the
better
the
facion
and
how
it
is
made
and
proporcioned
and
of
that
whiche
is
aboue
/
And
also
we
shal
speke
of
heuen
/
¶
Thus
fynyssheth
the
seconde
partie
of
this
present
volume
/
¶
Here
beginneth
the
thirde
parte
of
this
present
volume
&
declareth
first
how
the
day
&
the
nyght
come
/
Ca.
primo
IN
this
thirde
and
last
partye
of
this
present
booke
we
shal
fynysshe
it
wyth
spekynge
of
the
faytes
of
Astronomye
.
And
I
wyl
declare
to
you
first
how
the
daye
cometh
and
the
nyght
and
for
to
make
you
vnderstande
of
the
Ecplises
/
And
also
for
to
vnderstande
other
thynges
/
the
whiche
may
moche
prouffyte
to
them
that
wylle
do
payne
to
knowe
them
/
For
to
gouerne
them
the
better
after
the
disposicyon
of
the
tyme
/
¶
Here
declareth
how
the
daye
and
nyght
comen
.
¶
Why
the
sterres
ben
not
seen
by-day
as
wel
as
ay
nyght
¶
Capitulo.
ijᵒ.
THe
sterres
of
the
firmament
on
whiche
the
sonne
rendreth
clernes
make
contynuelly
nyght
&
day
their
tornyng
&
cours
wyth
n
firmament
aboute
round
aboue
as
byneth
But
them
that
ben
ouer
vs
we
may
not
see
by
daye
/
For
the
sonne
by
his
grete
clernes
and
lyght
taketh
from
vs
the
sight
of
them
/
In
lyke
wyse
as
ye
shold
do
of
candelis
that
were
ferre
brennyng
from
yow
/
And
yf
ther
were
a
grete
fyre
brennyng
bytwene
yow
&
the
candellis
.
&
had
grete
flawme
&
lyght
/
It
shold
take
away
fro
yow
your
syght
that
ye
shold
not
see
the
candellis
/
&
yf
the
fyre
were
take
away
&
put
byhynde
yow
/
ye
shold
incontynent
see
the
/
candellis
to
fore
you
brennyng
/
Thus
in
lyke
wyse
I
saye
yow
of
the
sterres
that
may
not
be
seen
by
daye
as
longe
as
the
sonne
maketh
his
torne
and
cours
aboue
th
erthe
/
And
whan
the
sonne
is
vnder
th
erthe
the
sterres
ben
seen
by
vs
/
But
tho
sterres
that
ben
ouer
vs
in
the
somer
on
the
day
tyme
/
in
wynter
they
be
ouer
vs
in
the
nyght
.
for
tho
sterres
that
we
see
in
the
somer
by
nyght
we
may
not
see
them
on
the
day
/
for
the
sonne
that
goth
round
aboute
vs
taketh
fro
tho
sterres
their
clernes
that
ben
on
the
day
tyme
where
the
sonne
is
vnto
the
tyme
that
he
draweth
hym
vnder
/
but
all
they
be
lyght
what
someuer
part
they
torne
as
well
by
day
as
by
nyght
.
as
longe
as
the
sonne
goth
aboute
hye
&
lowe
shynyng
sauf
the
whiche
ben
hyd
by
th
erthe
fro
vs
/
For
as
longe
at
the
shadowe
may
comprise
it
.
the
sonne
may
gyue
them
no
lyght
that
ye
may
vnderstande
by
the
fygure
thus
the
shadowe
discreaceth
by
the
sonne
whiche
is
moche
gretter
than
th
erthe
/
and
fynysheth
in
lassyng
And
it
endureth
ferther
fro
th
erthe
.
than
the
mone
is
hye
.
but
it
faylleth
aboueu
the
mone
/
¶
Wherfor
the
sonne
is
not
seen
by
nyght
as
it
is
by
day
Capitulo
iijo.
THe
erthe
is
suche
that
she
deffendeth
the
day
whiche
the
sonne
gyueth
vs
Yf
th
erthe
were
so
clere
that
men
myght
see
thurgh
thenne
myght
the
sone
be
seen
contynuelly
as
wel
vnder
th
erthe
as
aboue
.
But
it
is
so
obscure
&
derke
that
it
taketh
away
the
sight
fro
vs
.
&
it
maketh
the
shadowe
to
go
alway
torning
after
the
sonne
which
maketh
as
many
tornynges
aboute
th
erthe
as
the
sonne
doth
whiche
alleway
is
ayenst
it
for
whan
the
sonne
ariseth
in
the
mornyng
in
theest
/
the
shadowe
is
in
the
west
and
whan
it
is
right
ouer
&
a●●ue
vs
a●
mydday
.
thenne
is
th
erthe
shadowed
vnder
her
And
whan
the
sonne
goth
doun
in
the
west
the
shadowe
of
it
is
in
the
eest
&
thenne
whan
the
sonne
is
vnder
we
haue
thenne
the
shadowe
ouer
vs
whiche
goth
drawyng
to
the
west
/
longe
tyl
the
sonne
ariseth
and
shyneth
and
rendrith
to
vs
the
day
/
And
this
may
ye
see
by
thyse
two
fygures
to fore
on
that
other
syde
.
¶
How
the
mone
receyueth
dyuersly
her
lyght
&
clerenesse
Capitulo
.
iiijo.
SYth
that
ye
haue
vnderstonde
what
it
is
of
the
daye
&
of
the
nyght
/
wylle
ye
thenne
after
see
the
fayt
of
the
mone
/
&
how
she
receyueth
lyght
of
the
sonne
/
She
receyueth
lyght
in
suche
maner
that
she
is
contynuelly
half
ful
in
what
someuer
place
she
be
/
&
whan
we
see
her
round
/
thenne
we
calle
her
ful
/
but
how
moche
the
ferther
she
is
fro
the
sone
so
moche
the
more
we
see
of
her
apparayl
.
&
whan
she
is
right
vnder
the
sonne
/
thenne
she
apperithe
not
to
vs
.
For
thenne
she
is
bytwene
th
erthe
&
the
sonne
&
thenne
she
shyneth
toward
the
sonne
&
toward
vs
she
is
all
derke
/
and
therfore
we
see
her
not
/
But
whan
she
is
passed
the
poynt
&
is
remeuyd
fro
the
sone
/
Thenne
begynneth
her
clerenesse
to
appere
to
vs
as
she
were
horned
/
&
so
moche
as
she
wythdraweth
her
fro
the
sonne
somoche
more
apperith
she
shynyng
And
thenne
whan
she
apperith
to
be
half
ful
of
lyght
thenne
hath
she
gon
a
quarter
of
her
cercle
.
whiche
is
the
fourthe
parte
of
her
torne
&
cours
that
she
goeth
euery
moneth
and
thus
alleway
her
clernesse
encreacyng
and
growyng
she
goth
tyl
she
be
alle
rounde
fayre
and
clere
in
semblaunce
of
a
rolle
.
And
that
we
calle
the
full
mone
/
Thenne
is
she
right
vnder
the
sonne
as
she
may
be
right
ayenst
the
sight
in
suche
wyse
that
all
her
lyght
is
torned
toward
vs
/
Thenne
is
th
erthe
bytwene
the
sonne
&
the
mone
so
that
we
may
not
se
them
bothe
vpon
th
erthe
.
but
right
lityl
/
but
one
of
them
may
be
seen
.
For
whan
that
one
goth
doun
in
the
west
that
other
ariseth
in
the
eest
/
&
so
at
euen
or
morn
may
bothe
be
seen
but
not
longe
/
For
that
one
goth
vnder
th
erthe
&
that
other
cometh
aboue
Thenne
the
mone
whiche
hath
ben
opposite
of
the
sonne
&
hath
gon
half
her
cours
thenne
she
goth
on
that
other
side
approching
the
sonne
.
&
begynneth
to
lasse
her
lyght
&
mynusshe
it
tyl
it
be
but
half
agayn
&
thenne
hath
she
gon
thre
quarters
of
her
cercle
&
is
thenne
as
nygh
the
sonne
on
that
side
.
as
she
was
at
the
first
quarter
on
that
other
side
/
&
so
approcheth
ner
&
ner
tyl
she
appere
horned
as
to fore
/
and
thus
she
goth
tyl
she
be
al
fayleth
that
we
may
se
nomore
thenne
of
her
/
For
thenne
is
she
vnder
the
sonne
as
ye
may
see
by
this
present
fygure
&
I
saye
nomore
herof
.
but
that
she
is
thenne
bitwene
the
sonne
&
th
erthe
/
¶
How
the
eclipses
of
the
mone
happen
/
Capitulo
.
vo.
IT
happeth
ofte
tymes
that
the
mone
muste
nedes
lose
her
lyght
/
And
that
happeth
whan
she
apperith
most
full
/
And
she
becometh
as
vanysshed
away
/
and
derketh
lytyl
and
lytyl
/
Tyl
she
be
all
faylled
ye
haue
herd
here
to fore
how
the
mone
taketh
light
of
the
sonne
/
that
alway
she
hath
half
her
lyght
hole
/
But
whan
it
is
so
that
she
is
in
eclipse
.
thenne
hath
she
no
light
in
no
parte
/
&
this
happeth
neuer
but
whan
she
is
torned
right
so
that
the
sonne
gyueth
her
ful
lyght
.
For
the
mone
goth
not
alway
so
right
as
doth
the
sonne
.
For
somtyme
she
passeth
in
her
cours
by
suche
away
that
th
erthe
shadoweth
her
alle
/
For
th
erthe
is
gretter
than
the
mone
is
/
&
therfore
whan
th
erthe
is
iuste
bytwene
the
sonne
and
the
mone
thenne
she
thus
shadoweth
her
/
For
bytwene
the
sonne
&
the
mone
is
a
lygne
whiche
declyneth
so
moche
to
the
mone
by
whiche
the
sonne
smyteth
his
rayes
in
her
as
longe
as
ther
is
no
letting
by
th
erthe
/
For
the
more
that
ther
is
bytwene
them
the
more
is
the
mone
shadowed
/
And
the
lasse
that
it
is
bytwene
somoche
lasse
is
the
shadowe
/
&
the
mone
leseth
the
lasse
of
her
light
that
she
receyueth
of
the
sonne
/
whan
she
is
so
shadowed
/
Thus
ye
may
vnderstonde
/
yf
a
lygne
passed
thurgh
th
erthe
by
the
poynt
of
the
myddle
of
it
/
&
stratched
that
one
ende
vnto
the
body
of
the
sonne
in
suche
wyse
by
right
sight
that
it
endured
on
that
other
ende
vnto
the
mone
/
whiche
euery
moneth
goth
here
and
there
.
hyer
and
lower
/
yf
she
were
se
euen
ayenst
the
sonne
/
thenne
shold
●he
falle
euery
moneth
in
that
shadowe
whi●he
on
alle
partes
shold
empesshe
her
lyght
/
whiche
thenne
myght
not
come
to
her
for
th
erthe
in
no
wyse
/
For
the
ferther
she
is
fro
the
right
lygne
.
so
moche
hath
and
receyueth
she
the
more
of
lyght
/
And
whan
she
is
so
that
th
erthe
is
ex
opposito
bytwene
them
than
loseth
the
mone
her
lyght
/
Thus
is
seen
somtyme
the
mone
in
the
myddle
of
his
moneth
lose
his
lyght
and
derk
/
whan
she
is
most
ful
/
And
her
lyght
torned
vnto
derkenesse
whiche
we
calle
eclypse
of
the
mone
.
as
ye
may
wel
see
&
vnderstonde
by
this
fygure
yf
ye
beholde
it
well
/
¶
How
the
Eclypse
of
the
Sonne
cometh
/
Ca.
vio.
Yt
happeth
somtyme
that
the
sonne
leseth
his
clerenes
&
the
lyght
in
the
plain
daye
.
For
it
gooth
as
to
decline
.
and
is
called
in
latin
eclipsis
/
This
eclipse
procedeth
by
cause
of
defaulte
of
lyght
/
and
it
happeth
in
this
manere
that
whan
the
mone
whiche
is
vnder
the
sonne
cometh
right
bytwene
vs
and
the
sonne
/
thenne
in
the
right
lygne
it
behoueth
the
toward
vs
the
mone
taketh
&
reteyneth
the
lyght
of
the
sonne
on
hye
/
so
that
it
semeth
to
vs
that
is
defaylled
/
for
the
mone
is
not
so
pure
that
the
sonne
may
shyne
ouer
her
/
&
thurgh
her
as
thurgh
an
other
sterre
/
alle
like
as
a
candel
/
whiche
is
sette
ferre
fro
your
sight
/
&
after
ye
helde
your
honde
right
to
fore
the
candel
.
thenne
ye
shold
not
see
nothyng
therof
/
&
the
more
right
ye
hold
your
hand
bytwene
/
the
more
lasse
shold
ye
see
this
candel
/
&
so
moche
ye
may
sette
your
hand
ryght
to
fore
your
eyen
&
so
ferre
that
ye
shold
see
nothyng
therof
.
In
this
maner
I
telle
yow
of
the
Eclypse
that
bytwene
the
Sonne
and
the
Mone
is
not
one
waye
comune
/
But
the
mone
gooth
an
other
waye
whiche
destourneth
her
a
lytyl
from
the
Sonne
.
Wherfore
vs
behoueth
to
vnderstande
that
the
mone
gooth
oftymes
whan
she
is
bytwene
vs
and
the
sonne
somtyme
aboue
and
otherwhile
bynethe
/
here
and
there
as
she
ryseth
and
declyneth
/
But
whan
she
passyth
in
the
right
lygne
euen
bytwene
vs
and
the
sonne
thenne
taketh
the
mone
fro
vs
the
lyght
and
clernes
of
the
sonne
in
suche
wyse
as
we
may
not
clerly
see
her
in
that
paas
/
For
thenne
shadoweth
she
th
erthe
/
And
kepeth
the
raynes
of
the
sonne
that
they
may
not
shyne
on
th
erthe
/
And
they
that
ben
in
this
parte
/
haue
in
their
syght
the
shadowe
behynde
them
/
But
it
apperyth
not
comunely
to
alle
men
thurgh
al
the
world
For
the
mone
is
not
so
grete
nowher
nygh
as
all
th
erthe
therfor
she
shadoweth
not
all
but
only
where
she
is
in
the
right
lygne
bytwene
th
erthe
and
the
sonne
/
And
thyder
the
philosophers
were
wont
to
goo
where
as
they
knewe
it
/
For
by
their
wyt
and
studye
they
had
lerned
for
to
approue
the
daye
and
tyme
whan
suche
thynges
sholde
happe
By
whiche
they
preuyd
plente
of
thynges
wherfore
they
preysed
moche
our
lord
/
Thu●
see
we
here
byneth
the
eclypse
of
the
sonne
aboue
vs
whan
the
mone
is
right
vnder
the
sonne
for
as
moche
as
she
is
bynethe
sonne
and
aboue
vs
.
And
thenne
the
sonne
passeth
the
ryght
lygne
and
gooth
departyng
and
wythdrawyng
so
moche
/
that
she
apperyth
as
she
dyde
afore
/
And
thenne
the
mone
departed
is
horned
thre
dayes
after
this
Eclypse
/
And
by
this
fygure
ye
may
vnderstonde
playnly
this
that
ye
haue
herd
here
tofore
/
¶
Of
the
Eclypse
that
happed
atte
deth
of
our
lord
god
Capitulo
/
vijo.
THus
as
the
mone
taketh
away
fro
vs
the
lyght
of
the
sonne
/
So
it
happeth
oftyme
that
th
erthe
taketh
away
the
lyght
of
the
mone
as
to fore
is
declared
/
But
the
Eclipse
of
the
mone
may
not
be
in
no
wyse
but
whan
she
apperith
most
full
ne
th
eclipse
of
the
sonne
may
not
be
but
whan
the
mone
is
all
waned
and
faylled
and
that
we
calle
the
coniuncion
but
yf
god
whiche
made
all
thinge
chaunge
and
deffete
at
his
plaisir
make
it
to
come
or
happene
otherwyse
/
like
as
it
happed
at
suche
tyme
as
our
sauiour
Ihesu
Cryste
was
on
the
crosse
/
at
whiche
tyme
the
lyght
and
bryghtnesse
of
the
day
faylled
fro
mydday
vnto
the
ix
hour
of
the
day
and
thenne
was
the
mone
vnder
th
erthe
at
the
fulle
as
moche
as
she
myght
be
/
whiche
thenne
in
no
wyse
myght
empesshe
the
lyght
of
the
sonne
/
&
the
day
at
that
tyme
was
as
derke
&
obscure
as
it
had
ben
propre
nyght
/
whiche
by
nature
at
that
tyme
shold
haue
be
bryght
&
pure
/
For
whiche
cause
seynt
Dyonyse
whiche
at
this
tyme
is
schryned
in
Fraunce
&
thenne
beyng
an
estudyaūt
in
grece
a
paynem
lyke
a
grete
clercke
as
he
was
.
For
he
knewe
moche
of
astronomye
.
whan
he
apperceyued
this
grete
obscurte
and
derknes
/
he
had
right
grete
meruaylle
/
and
fonde
by
astroonmye
that
this
myght
not
be
by
nature
ne
by
reson
.
that
the
eclipse
of
the
sonne
shold
happe
&
falle
in
suche
season
/
thenne
sayd
he
a
derke
worde
in
this
maner
or
the
god
of
nature
suffreth
grete
torment
by
wronge
/
or
all
the
world
discordeth
&
shal
desolue
&
faylle
/
as
it
that
muste
take
an
ende
/
&
though
in
hym self
that
he
was
a
grete
god
that
so
susfred
/
And
that
he
had
power
and
myght
aboue
alle
other
goddes
/
as
he
that
byleuyd
on
many
goddes
.
after
his
lawe
.
Thenne
this
holy
dyonyse
made
an
aulter
in
his
oratorye
alle
aboue
the
other
aulters
&
also
a
parte
where
as
no
persone
repayred
but
he
hym self
only
/
by
cause
he
wold
not
be
reputed
in
mysbyleue
.
and
whan
it
was
made
&
he
had
sene
it
.
he
called
it
the
aulter
of
the
god
vnknowen
&
worshipped
&
adoured
hym
.
&
helde
hym
for
a
right
dere
&
grete
god
/
It
was
not
longe
after
this
/
that
the
holy
doctour
Seynt
poul
cam
to
this
place
where
seynt
dionyse
was
/
as
he
that
knewe
hym
for
a
right
grete
clerck
/
And
by
commynycacion
&
preching
of
seynt
Poul
.
he
was
sone
conuerted
by
the
helpe
of
our
lord
whiche
wrought
so
therin
/
that
thenne
he
had
very
knowleche
how
our
lord
had
suffred
his
passion
For
they
were
bothe
good
clerkes
as
is
more
playnly
conteyned
in
their
legendes
.
And
thus
was
the
noble
clerk
saynt
dyonyse
bycomen
a
good
and
very
crysten
man
whiche
all
his
lyf
to fore
had
be
a
paynem
and
he
so
employed
his
science
and
his
tyme
/
fro
that
day
forthon
that
it
auaylled
hym
gretly
to
the
helthe
of
his
sowle
/
this
eclipse
deceyuid
hym
not
ne
this
that
he
knewe
astronomye
.
but
he
bycam
after
a
man
of
so
good
&
holy
lyf
.
that
he
gate
for
his
reward
the
blysse
of
heuen
.
ye
haue
herd
the
fayt
of
Eclypses
yf
ye
wyl
vnderstande
them
wel
.
And
ye
shal
not
fare
the
werse
ne
the
lasse
auaylle
you
/
For
to
knowe
it
may
moche
prouffyte
to
euery
persone
.
for
suche
demonstraunces
ben
signefycacions
of
grete
werkes
&
thynges
that
ofte
after
happen
&
falle
/
This
fynde
wel
astronomyers
by
Astronomye
as
somtym
scarcete
and
defaulte
of
goodes
/
of
a
grete
derthe
of
warre
/
or
deth
of
kynges
or
prynces
that
falleth
in
the
world
/
as
they
may
enquyre
and
serche
by
theyr
science
and
reson
/
This
eclipse
that
was
so
grete
signefyed
the
deth
of
Ihesu
Cryst
/
And
it
ought
wel
to
come
otherwyse
for
hym
than
for
another
/
For
he
was
and
is
by
right
lord
&
kinge
of
alle
the
world
.
And
may
deffete
&
desolue
it
/
and
ordeyne
at
his
good
playsyr
the
other
eclypses
comen
by
nature
whiche
reteyne
on
th
erthe
their
vertues
of
thinges
that
ben
come
/
for
it
byhoueth
all
to
fynysshe
&
come
to
nought
to
all
that
is
on
th
erthe
/
&
that
shortly
/
god
made
not
the
firmament
ne
the
sterres
for
noght
whiche
as
sayd
is
goth
tornyng
ouer
&
aboue
vs
/
and
gyueth
to
the
sterres
names
&
vertues
in
heuen
and
in
erthe
/
eche
after
his
myght
on
all
thinges
that
hath
growyng
.
For
ther
is
nothyng
but
it
hath
somme
power
for
as
moche
as
it
hath
growyng
/
suche
as
it
ought
to
haue
by
nature
and
by
resen
we
shal
now
for
this
present
leue
for
to
speke
ony
more
of
the
eclipses
/
and
shal
recompte
and
declare
of
the
vertue
of
the
firmament
and
of
the
sterres
/
For
who
so
wel
knewe
the
vertue
of
them
/
he
shold
knowe
the
trouthe
of
alle
suche
thynge
that
is
bynethe
here
on
th
erthe
by
reson
of
nature
/
whether
the
thynge
were
obscure
and
derke
or
not
/
¶
Of
the
vertu
of
heuen
and
of
the
sterres
/
Caplo.
viijᵒ.
NOw
wylle
ye
here
of
the
science
by
the
whiche
men
gete
sapience
for
to
knowe
and
enquyre
the
thinges
that
may
happen
in
th
erthe
by
the
werker
of
right
nature
whiche
is
fygured
by
the
world
/
The
heuenes
and
the
sterres
ben
the
very
instruments
of
nature
to
the
world
by
whiche
she
werketh
alle
as
god
wylle
as
wel
nygh
as
ferre
.
and
who
that
coude
knowe
her
myght
/
he
had
knowlege
of
alle
thyng
that
sayd
is
/
as
wel
of
the
sterres
that
ben
on
heuen
whiche
haue
vertueson
th
erthe
whiche
god
hath
gyuen
and
graunted
to
euerich
&
specyally
to
the
sonne
&
to
the
mone
whiche
gyue
lyght
vnto
the
world
&
wythout
whom
nothyng
lyuyng
may
be
/
For
by
them
growe
alle
thynges
that
be
in
this
world
and
whiche
haue
ende
and
begynnyng
/
this
consenteth
and
permyseth
he
that
is
almyghty
.
Alle
dyuersitees
that
be
in
persones
and
whiche
haue
dyuersitees
of
makyng
and
of
corsage
and
alle
that
happeth
by
nature
/
be
it
in
herbes
/
in
plantes
or
in
beestes
.
this
happeth
by
the
vertue
celestyal
whiche
god
gaf
to
the
sterres
.
Whan
he
first
created
the
world
/
And
that
he
sette
them
&
endowed
them
wyth
suche
nature
that
he
ordeyned
them
to
goo
round
aboute
the
world
ayenst
the
tornyng
of
the
firmament
/
And
by
their
tornyng
and
by
their
vertu
whiche
lyeth
in
heuen
.
lyue
alle
thynges
that
ben
vnder
it
/
And
yf
it
pleasyd
our
lord
that
he
wold
holde
the
heuen
all
stylle
in
suche
wyse
that
it
torned
not
aboute
.
ther
is
nothing
in
alle
the
world
/
that
myght
meue
him
.
In
hym
shold
be
no
vnderstondyng
nomore
than
in
a
dede
body
.
whiche
feleth
nothyng
ne
therin
is
no
wytte
ne
vnderstandyng
ne
moeuyng
as
he
that
hath
no
lyf
/
in
suche
poynt
/
shal
euery
thynge
be
whan
the
heuen
shal
leue
his
moeuyng
.
Alle
thus
shold
they
be
and
neuer
moeue
/
tyl
that
the
heuen
had
agayn
his
moeuyng
/
And
thenne
shold
they
be
otherwyse
but
who
that
thenne
myght
vse
his
wytte
&
se
what
he
shal
be
.
moche
myght
he
see
of
semblaunces
&
of
dyuerse
contenaunces
in
other
men
that
myght
not
remeue
them
/
For
yf
ther
were
no
meuyng
on
the
heuen
/
ther
is
nothyng
that
myght
lyue
on
erthe
.
Also
god
wyl
that
it
so
be
that
all
thyng
hath
establysshid
by
right
/
Thus
was
the
wylle
of
god
in
whom
alle
vertues
habounde
for
to
fourme
the
world
/
For
he
made
ne
created
neuer
thynge
but
that
he
gaf
to
it
suche
vertue
as
it
ought
to
haue
/
ellis
he
had
made
somthyng
for
nought
&
without
reson
/
but
he
dyde
not
so
for
he
neuer
faylled
in
no
thynge
/
he
made
and
created
alle
the
sterres
&
gaf
to
euerich
his
vertue
&
who
that
wyll
not
byleue
.
thus
In
him
is
nether
memoyre
ne
reson
/
For
we
see
openly
that
the
mone
taketh
lyght
whan
we
see
her
all
full
.
for
the
man
hath
thenne
neyther
membre
ne
vayne
/
but
that
it
is
full
whan
it
is
in
the
cours
of
humours
and
suche
thynges
&
in
lyke
wyse
it
happeth
on
alle
bestes
.
For
they
haue
thenne
their
hedes
and
other
membres
more
garnysshid
of
margh
&
of
humeurs
/
And
the
see
also
floweth
&
ebbeth
in
his
cours
euery
moneth
wherof
it
happeth
that
they
that
ben
nygh
the
see
whan
they
knowe
that
the
mone
is
ful
they
wythdrawe
them
fro
the
see
on
hye
.
And
saue
them
&
theyre
meynage
.
and
in
this
poynt
they
wythdrawe
them
and
holde
them
in
hye
places
vnto
the
tyme
that
the
see
wythdraweth
and
lasseth
agayn
.
And
thus
do
they
euery
moneth
.
But
alle
this
happeth
by
the
mone
whiche
is
one
of
the
seuen
planetes
/
In
lyke
wyse
is
it
seen
of
the
sonne
.
that
after
the
wynter
whan
he
begynneth
to
mounte
/
he
causeth
the
fruyt
to
be
brought
forth
of
th
erthe
/
and
appparylleth
the
trees
wyth
leues
.
and
alle
verdure
to
come
agayn
.
And
the
byrdes
begynne
agayn
their
songe
for
the
swetenes
of
the
new
tyme
.
And
whan
he
rebasshith
and
declyneth
/
he
maketh
the
wynter
to
begynne
and
causeth
flowres
and
leuis
to
falle
and
falle
so
longe
tyl
he
begynne
to
mounte
agayn
as
to fore
is
sayd
.
Syth
that
thyse
two
sterres
haue
suche
vertues
/
and
cause
suche
thynges
to
be
don
/
The
other
whiche
ben
pourtrayed
on
the
heuen
/
were
not
made
to
serue
of
nought
/
But
to
eueriche
is
ordeyned
his
vertue
and
his
right
after
his
nature
.
Wherfore
they
make
dyuersitees
in
thynges
that
ben
on
th
erthe
/
And
the
moeuynges
of
tyme
/
of
whiche
that
one
cometh
soone
and
that
other
late
/
And
the
fruytes
that
come
on
th
erthe
.
Somme
come
sone
and
erly
and
the
other
late
and
ben
otherwhyle
sooner
rype
in
one
yere
that
in
an
other
.
And
more
assured
of
tempestes
&
other
greuaunces
/
And
thus
chaunge
in
sondry
maners
.
For
one
somer
is
softe
and
moyste
/
And
another
is
drye
and
wyndy
/
Of
the
wynter
it
happeth
oftymes
that
they
chaunge
/
so
that
one
is
colde
/
rayny
and
more
desplaysaunt
than
the
other
/
And
another
shal
be
more
Ioyous
&
lasse
damageable
/
Thus
is
seen
that
the
one
is
dere
of
somme
vytaylle
or
other
thynges
And
that
other
shal
be
plentyuous
And
also
it
is
ofte
that
ther
is
plente
and
good
chepe
in
one
yere
/
In
another
yere
it
is
had
in
grete
chierte
/
and
is
of
grete
scarset●
this
fallyth
somtyme
and
ofte
.
Alle
thyse
dyuersytees
cause
the
sterres
whiche
ben
on
the
heuen
/
But
alle
this
is
by
the
wylle
of
our
lord
that
hath
sette
eeueriche
in
his
propre
place
/
where
he
maketh
naturelly
his
cours
/
and
euerich
dyuersly
/
For
yf
none
other
thynge
had
his
vse
in
tymes
sauf
the
sonne
only
wythout
moo
/
as
he
that
goth
swyftly
by
the
firmament
euery
yere
/
And
mounteth
as
moche
and
as
hye
in
one
somer
as
in
another
And
as
moche
descendeth
in
one
wynter
as
in
another
euery
day
egally
tyl
that
he
come
in
to
/
his
right
poynt
/
And
Ioyneth
that
other
after
hym
where
he
was
to
fore
/
this
knowe
well
Astronomyers
that
he
gooth
euery
yere
aboute
the
heuen
one
torne
.
And
where
he
is
this
day
in
the
same
place
he
shal
be
this
day
a
yere
.
Ther
by
is
it
knowen
that
if
none
other
hath
no
power
thenne
shold
euery
yere
be
lyke
other
.
&
euery
yere
alway
shold
be
lyke
as
the
yere
to fore
was
/
and
euery
moneth
shold
be
lyke
the
same
as
eueriche
shold
come
/
that
is
to
wyte
/
one
Ianyuer
lyke
another
Ianyuer
/
and
feuerer
lyke
another
feuerer
/
and
in
lyke
wyse
alle
the
other
x.
moneths
/
For
the
sonne
gooth
alle
lyke
in
one
moneth
/
As
he
shal
the
next
yere
in
the
same
moneth
.
And
this
day
sholde
reassemble
and
be
lyke
vnto
this
day
a
yere
in
alle
maner
thynge
that
is
to
wete
of
hete
/
of
colde
of
fair
wether
.
of
rayne
and
of
other
thinges
euerich
after
their
comyng
all
the
yere
duryng
.
Thenne
sholde
it
falle
by
right
nature
that
in
all
the
somers
and
all
the
wynters
that
euer
haue
ben
and
shal
be
shold
not
come
no
dyuersytees
.
And
all
the
tymes
shold
be
lyke
as
they
that
by
the.
sonne
shold
be
alway
demened
/
eschauffed
and
contynuelly
gouerned
.
For
he
goth
egally
alway
and
endeth
his
cours
euery
yere
and
holdeth
his
right
way
in
one
estate
as
he
that
goth
not
out
of
his
waye
.
Thus
is
he
the
right
veyle
and
patrone
of
all
the
other
sterres
.
For
it
is
the
most
fyn
of
all
the
other
by
the
grete
clerenesse
that
is
in
hym
/
and
in
all
thynges
by
hym
/
and
he
hath
on
th
erthe
more
power
on
thynges
of
whiche
may
be
enquyred
of
nature
reson
and
right
than
all
the
other
sterres
/
yet
somtyme
they
restrayne
his
heetes
and
after
they
enlarge
them
after
that
they
be
fer
or
nygh
/
as
he
otherwhyle
hath
nede
/
lyke
vnto
a
kynge
whiche
is
the
gretter
lorde
and
the
more
myghty
in
hym self
for
his
hyghnesse
than
ony
other
of
the
people
/
Neuertheles
he
hath
somtyme
nede
of
them
for
to
be
holpen
and
serued
of
them
/
For
how
moche
the
nerer
he
is
to
his
people
/
so
moche
more
is
he
stronge
and
puissaunt
/
And
the
ferther
he
wythdraweth
fro
his
folke
/
so
moche
the
lasse
he
exployteth
of
his
werke
/
¶
In
lyke
wyse
I
saye
to
yow
of
the
sonne
whiche
is
as
ye
may
vnderstonde
.
the
grettest
.
the
most
myghty
/
And
the
most
vertuous
/
of
whiche
he
hath
gretter
power
in
erthe
/
than
ony
other
sterre
may
haue
.
but
the
other
haue
their
power
euerich
in
his
degre
.
But
syth
we
haue
recounted
to
yow
the
shortest
wyse
we
may
of
the
vertue
of
the
firmament
.
we
shal
declare
to
you
herafter
in
short
how
the
world
was
mesured
as
well
in
heyght
as
in
depnesse
.
And
on
alle
sydes
of
lengthe
and
brede
by
them
that
k●ewe
the
resons
of
the
seuen
sciences
/
Of
whiche
geometrie
is
one
.
by
whiche
the
sonne
/
the
mone
.
th
erthe
/
and
the
firmament
ben
mesured
as
well
wythin
as
wythoute
/
how
moche
it
is
of
gretenes
/
And
how
moche
it
is
fro
th
erthe
to
the
firmament
/
and
alle
the
gretenes
of
the
sterres
/
For
this
is
preuyd
by
ryght
byholdyng
.
And
they
that
founde
this
science
perceyuyd
that
it
myght
not
be
knowen
truly
by
astronomye
ne
the
nature
of
the
sterres
wythout
knowyng
of
their
mesures
/
Therfore
wolde
they
mesure
them
and
preue
all
their
gretenesse
/
¶
Wherfore
and
how
they
mesured
the
world
/
Caplo.
ix
FYrst
of
alle
the
auncient
philosophers
wolde
mesure
the
gretnes
of
the
world
all
round
aboue
th
erthe
tofore
ony
other
werke
.
by
whiche
they
preuyd
the
heyght
of
the
sterres
.
and
the
gretnes
of
the
firmament
all
aboute
/
And
they
coude
not
fynde
more
gretter
mesure
to
be
mesured
/
and
whan
they
had
mesured
th
erthe
how
moche
it
had
of
largenes
all
aboute
/
and
how
moche
it
had
of
thycknes
thourgh
they
enquyred
after
of
the
mone
by
cause
it
was
leste
hye
fro
th
erthe
.
&
most
nyhest
therto
.
And
after
they
enquyred
of
the
sonne
.
how
ferre
it
was
fro
th
erthe
/
And
how
moche
the
body
therof
had
of
gretnes
/
And
they
fonde
it
more
than
all
th
erthe
was
▪
And
whan
they
had
mesured
thyse
thre
thynges
the
Sonne
/
the
Mone
and
th
erthe
.
They
myght
lyghtly
after
enquyre
of
the
other
sterres
/
how
moche
eueriche
is
nygh
or
ferre
.
And
the
gretenes
of
euerich
/
Of
whiche
they
fonde
none
.
but
his
body
were
of
more
gretenes
than
alle
th
erthe
is
excepte
only
thre
of
the
planetes
wythout
more
whiche
ben
Venus
.
Mercurye
.
and
the
Mone
/
whiche
is
the
thirde
/
and
euery
man
may
enquyre
this
.
yf
he
knowe
the
science
of
geometrye
&
the
science
of
astronomye
wyth
all
/
For
that
muste
he
knowe
first
to fore
he
may
fynde
and
knowe
the
trouthe
.
But
for
as
moche
as
alle
be
not
good
clerkis
ne
maystres
of
Astronomye
that
may
proue
this
.
we
wyll
recounte
here
after
how
moche
the
erthe
is
longe
.
And
how
thycke
it
is
thurgh
.
And
also
how
moche
the
mone
is
aboue
th
erthe
.
And
the
sonne
also
whiche
is
aboue
the
mone
/
And
how
moche
eche
of
them
hath
of
gretenes
lyke
as
the
kynge
Tholomeus
hath
prened
/
And
also
we
shal
speke
after
that
of
the
sterres
and
of
the
firmament
/
Of
alle
this
we
shal
saye
to
you
/
but
first
tofore
all
I
shal
recounte
to
yow
of
the
faytes
and
dedes
of
the
kynge
Tholomeus
.
whiche
knewe
so
many
demonstraunces
of
apparicions
.
and
so
moche
loued
Astronomye
that
he
wold
serche
alle
these
thynges
/
And
we
shal
saye
to
you
of
somme
thynges
.
whiche
ben
not
contrarye
to
yow
/
yf
ye
wyll
well
vnderstande
and
reteyne
them
by
whiche
ye
may
lerne
som
good
.
And
thenne
after
we
shal
mesure
to
yow
the
world
the
best
wyse
we
may
/
Now
entende
ye
of
the
kynge
tholomeus
and
of
the
werkes
of
somme
other
philosophers
for
youre
owne
prouffyt
.
¶
Of
the
kynge
Tholomeus
and
of
somme
other
philosophers
/
Capitulo
xᵒ.
THolomeus
was
a
kynge
moche
subtyl
in
Astronomye
.
This
tholomeus
was
kynge
of
egipte
whiche
helde
the
contree
longe
tyme
/
Ther
were
somtyme
many
kynges
that
were
named
Tholomeus
/
But
emonge
the
other
this
was
he
that
knewe
most
of
Astronomye
and
that
most
enserched
of
the
sterres
/
and
more
vnderstode
of
them
than
the
other
/
of
whiche
he
composed
and
made
plente
of
right
fayr
volumes
and
bookes
/
And
many
dyuerse
instrumentes
by
whiche
was
founde
appertly
alle
the
gretenes
of
th
erthe
/
And
the
heyght
of
the
firmament
/
And
how
the
sterres
make
their
cours
bothe
by
nyght
and
by
daye
/
By
hym
were
founden
first
the
oryloges
of
the
chirches
whiche
begynne
the
houres
of
the
dayes
and
of
the
nyghtes
/
The
dayes
passe
fast
on
wherfor
the
chirches
haue
grete
nede
to
haue
good
orloges
.
for
to
doo
therby
alway
the
seruyse
of
our
lord
at
hour
competent
and
due
as
well
by
day
as
by
nyght
.
For
god
loueth
moche
for
to
be
adoured
and
seruyd
entyerly
and
ordynatly
euery
day
/
For
the
Orysons
that
ben
sayd
and
receyted
euery
day
in
the
chirches
playse
more
to
our
lord
than
do
they
that
ben
sayde
in
many
other
places
/
And
therfor
the
oryloges
ben
necessarye
in
euery
chirche
.
And
men
serue
god
the
better
in
due
tyme
and
fare
the
better
/
and
lyue
the
lenger
.
For
yf
they
ruled
soo
them self
to
praye
at
a
certayn
hour
/
And
at
an
other
hour
in
lyke
wyse
to
ete
.
&
other
thinges
in
his
right
hour
/
it
shold
be
a
lyght
thynge
to
doo
&
plese
god
Yf
men
wold
applye
them
as
wel
to
suche
thynges
.
as
they
do
to
do
that
whiche
confoundeth
and
sleeth
them
that
is
to
wete
that
they
be
al
enclyned
to
conquere
the
richesses
/
of
whiche
they
cesse
not
nyght
ne
daye
.
And
wenen
to
prolonge
their
lyf
therby
/
But
they
amasse
and
gete
grete
tresours
/
and
pourchasse
their
deth
/
For
by
the
grete
goodes
that
they
assemble
on
alle
sydes
/
they
put
them
in
suche
thought
and
payne
that
they
lese
ofte
their
wytte
&
vnderstandyng
.
and
also
their
mynde
so
that
they
may
not
enclyne
and
thinke
on
thoo
werkes
that
towche
their
saluacion
as
they
ought
to
doo
/
&
by
suche
werkes
shold
they
be
in
more
ease
&
lyue
lenger
and
plese
better
our
lord
.
And
shold
also
haue
more
helthe
of
body
and
of
sowle
/
but
they
loue
somoche
the
wynnyng
of
the
goodes
of
the
world
/
that
they
leue
that
whiche
shold
more
auayle
and
prouffyte
them
.
¶
I
wote
neuer
wherfore
they
gete
this
hauoir
and
good
.
For
they
lose
therby
the
ease
of
the
worlde
/
bycause
whan
they
wene
to
sette
them
in
ease
and
to
be
in
pees
/
Thenne
cometh
deth
and
maketh
them
to
deye
wyth
ryght
grete
sorowe
.
For
the
grete
couetyse
of
the
good
and
the
payne
that
they
haue
made
alle
way
to
gete
it
wythout
ordynaunce
and
mesure
hath
moche
the
more
hastelyer
brought
them
to
their
deth
And
so
ben
many
men
deed
/
that
yf
they
had
ordeyned
their
affayres
and
besynesse
as
they
ought
to
doo
at
euery
hour
competently
and
by
ordre
/
whiche
yet
had
ben
a
lyue
&
in
good
helthe
/
And
lo
thus
ye
may
see
how
they
abredge
their
dayes
and
auaunce
their
deth
/
For
at
longe
nature
may
not
suffre
dyuerse
mayntenes
vnresonable
ne
the
sodeyn
agrauacions
ne
griefs
/
of
whiche
by
their
folyes
they
trauaylle
nature
.
and
it
displesyth
moche
vnto
god
.
And
also
no
good
may
come
therof
/
But
gladlyer
and
wyth
better
wyll
they
traueylle
and
more
dylygently
for
to
wynne
and
gete
the
worldly
goodes
.
than
the
loue
of
god
/
And
neuer
do
they
thynge
by
ordre
.
One
day
goon
they
erly
to
the
chirche
.
and
another
day
late
or
at
suche
an
hour
/
as
they
wene
that
it
shal
not
hurte
them
to
auaunce
their
gayne
&
wynnyng
/
Thus
go
they
neuer
to
chirche
for
to
praye
vnto
god
vnto
the
tyme
that
they
wene
that
they
shal
wynne
nomore
worldly
goodes
.
But
they
wynne
the
lasse
/
For
they
serue
god
in
vayn
/
And
god
shal
rendre
to
them
their
reward
.
and
they
shal
bye
right
dere
that
they
leue
to
serue
hym
/
For
he
may
rendre
to
them
more
meryte
in
one
day
.
than
they
may
gete
in
a
thousand
yere
.
Suche
people
ben
foles
and
euyl
aduysed
.
whan
of
nought
they
wene
to
serue
hym
that
alle
knoweth
and
all
seeth
.
ye
the
lest
thought
that
they
thynke
yet
ben
ther
somme
/
whan
they
go
to
chirche
they
goo
not
in
entencion
to
praye
god
but
only
for
to
gete
the
loos
and
goodes
of
the
world
.
And
praye
more
for
their
richesses
.
that
god
sholde
kepe
and
multyplye
them
than
they
do
for
the
saluacion
of
their
sowles
whiche
ben
in
grete
parylle
to
be
perysshed
.
And
it
is
a
grete
meruaylle
of
suche
maner
of
people
/
that
thynke
wel
in
their
hertes
and
knowe
wel
that
it
is
euyl
that
they
do
/
yet
for
al
that
they
amende
them
not
▪
of
whiche
it
is
grete
pyte
whan
they
so
folowe
the
deuyll
whiche
is
so
feble
a
thyng
fro
whom
alle
euyllis
sourden
Truly
the
deuyl
is
ful
of
inyquyte
and
wythout
power
and
strengthe
ouer
ony
persone
of
hym self
/
For
he
may
not
vainquysshe
ne
ouercome
/
but
hym
that
consenteth
to
his
wyll
/
For
who
that
wyll
conduyte
and
rule
hym self
well
The
inyquytees
of
hym
may
not
noye
ne
greue
/
ne
in
nothynge
trauaylle
hym
/
of
whiche
he
hath
cause
to
sorowe
fore
/
as
longe
as
he
wyll
dispose
hym
to
doo
well
/
Thenne
may
wel
be
sayd
/
fy
.
¶
For
they
ben
more
than
faylled
whan
he
ouercometh
them
so
febly
and
taketh
them
in
their
euill
dedes
and
synnes
and
ledeth
them
to
perdycion
/
where
they
neuer
shal
be
wythout
payne
/
ne
neuer
shal
haue
Ioye
ne
in
no
wyse
haue
hope
of
mercy
of
this
purpos
we
shal
saye
nomore
now
/
but
recounte
of
kynge
tholomeus
/
The
whiche
employed
his
tyme
/
in
the
werkes
of
our
lord
god
/
out
of
his
bookes
were
drawen
the
nombres
of
whiche
the
yeres
ben
ordeyned
/
And
of
the
same
is
founde
the
cours
of
the
mone
/
By
whiche
is
seen
whan
she
is
newe
/
of
suche
Iulius
Cezar
whiche
of
rome
was
emperour
made
a
booke
called
the
somes
/
the
sommes
/
the
whiche
is
ful
necessarye
in
holy
chirche
/
and
it
declareth
the
golden
nombre
of
the
kalender
/
For
by
the
kalender
is
knowen
the
cours
of
the
mone
/
and
of
alle
the
yere
/
by
whiche
is
also
knowen
how
we
ought
to
lyue
after
reson
euery
daye
/
That
is
to
wete
in
etyng
and
drynkyng
/
and
in
worshipyng
our
lord
on
hye
dayes
and
symple
/
and
for
to
solempnyse
suche
dayes
as
holy
chyrche
hath
ordeyned
and
by
blessyd
sayntes
establysshed
/
¶
By
the
kalender
we
knowe
the
holy
tymes
as
the
ymbre
dayes
/
The
lente
/
aduente
/
And
the
hye
dayes
and
festes
thet
we
ben
most
bounde
to
serue
god
/
For
to
gete
his
Inestimable
Ioye
and
glorye
/
Whiche
our
lord
hath
promysed
vnto
his
good
and
trewe
frendes
whiche
wyth
good
herte
serue
hym
/
Alle
this
lerneth
vs
the
calender
/
the
whiche
was
drawen
out
of
Astronomye
whiche
the
good
kynge
Tholomeus
louyd
so
moche
and
he
knewe
more
than
ony
other
man
sauf
adam
whiche
was
the
first
man
/
For
adam
knewe
alle
the
seuen
sciences
lyberall
entyerly
wythout
fayllyng
of
a
worde
/
as
he
that
the
creatour
made
and
fourmed
wyth
his
propre
handes
/
And
so
wold
our
lord
haue
hym
souerayn
in
beaute
.
in
wytte
and
strengthe
.
ouer
all
them̄
that
shold
be
born
after
hym
vnto
the
comyng
of
Ihesu
Cryste
sone
of
god
/
The
whiche
had
gyuen
to
hym
suche
vertues
.
Ne
neuer
after
Adam
gaf
he
so
moche
to
one
man
.
ne
neuer
shal
.
But
anon
as
he
had
consented
and
commysed
the
synne
deffended
.
he
lost
so
moche
of
his
wytte
and
power
.
that
anon
he
becam
a
man
mortall
/
And
he
was
suche
to fore
er
he
had
synned
.
that
he
shold
neuer
haue
felte
deth
/
Ne
alle
we
descended
of
hym
shold
not
haue
lasse
meryte
than
he
/
In
Ioye
in
solaas
and
in
deduyt
of
paradys
terrestre
alle
to
gydre
&
born
and
nouryshed
wythout
synnes
/
And
after
in
heuen
gloryfyed
.
But
syth
they
tasted
of
the
fruyt
▪
whiche
god
deffended
them
his
wytte
and
his
entendement
were
so
destroyed
and
corumped
by
his
synne
.
that
alle
we
abyde
entetched
and
foylled
ther
by
/
Ne
ther
is
nothyng
vnder
the
firmament
.
but
it
is
werse
sythen
than
to fore
and
of
lasse
valew
.
Ye
the
sterres
gyue
lasse
lyght
/
than
they
dyde
to fore
/
¶
Thus
alle
thynges
empayred
of
their
goodnes
and
vertues
by
the
synne
of
Adam
/
whiche
god
had
made
for
man
/
as
he
that
wold
make
hym
maystre
of
all
the
goodes
that
he
had
made
/
¶
But
anon
as
he
had
commysed
the
synne
/
he
felte
hym
so
bare
of
his
wytte
and
entendement
strengthe
&
of
his
beaute
/
that
hym
semed
he
was
al
naked
.
&
that
he
had
loste
all
goodes
as
a
man
put
in
exyle
/
But
notwythstondyng
this
yet
abode
wyth
hym
more
wytte
strengthe
&
beaute
/
than
euer
ony
man
had
sithen
And
to
the
regard
of
thyse
thre
vertues
that
adam
had
/
The
kynge
dauyd
that
was
so
vertuous
&
wyse
had
two
sones
whiche
myght
be
compared
the
one
to
the
beaulte
of
adam
.
&
that
other
to
his
wysedom
/
absolon
myght
be
compared
to
his
beaulte
&
salamon
vnto
his
wytte
&
wysedom
/
And
sampson
the
forte
vnto
his
strengthe
/
Thus
were
thyse
thre
vertues
in
adam
so
parfyghtly
that
noman
syth
myght
compare
wyth
hym
.
Ne
the
two
sones
of
dauid
ne
sampson
/
ne
none
other
.
For
as
it
is
sayd
tofore
he
knewe
the
vij
sciences
liberall
better
than
alle
the
men
that
ben
descended
of
hym
/
as
he
to
whom
his
god
&
maker
had
taught
them
to
hym
and
erseygned
.
&
after
that
they
were
sought
by
many
a
man
whiche
rendred
grete
payne
/
for
to
fynde
them
.
and
to
saue
them
for
cause
of
the
flood
/
knowyng
that
it
shold
come
to
the
world
by
fyre
or
by
water
.
¶
How
the
scryptures
&
sciences
were
saued
ayenft
the
flood
/
Capitulo
/
xjo.
SYth
Adam
was
deed
ther
were
many
men
whiche
lerned
the
sciences
of
the
vij
artes
lyberall
/
whiche
god
had
sente
to
them
in
th
erthe
/
Of
whome
somme
ther
were
that
wold
enquyre
what
shold
bycome
of
the
world
or
euer
it
shold
haue
an
ende
/
And
they
fonde
veryly
/
that
it
shold
be
destroyed
and
take
ende
twyes
.
At
the
first
tyme
by
the
flood
of
water
/
But
our
lord
wold
not
they
shold
knowe
whether
it
shold
be
first
destroied
by
water
or
by
fyre
.
Thenne
had
they
grete
pyte
for
theyr
sciences
that
they
had
goten
whiche
they
knewe
/
&
so
shold
perisshe
But
if
it
were
kept
and
ordeyned
fore
by
their
wysedoms
/
Thenne
they
aduysed
them
of
a
grete
wytte
and
bounte
/
as
they
that
wel
wise
/
that
after
the
first
destruxcion
of
the
world
ther
shold
be
other
people
/
wherfor
they
dyde
do
make
grete
pylers
of
stone
in
suche
wyse
that
they
myght
pourtraye
/
&
graue
in
euery
stone
atte
leste
one
of
the
vij
sciences
entierly
in
suche
wyse
that
they
myght
be
knowen
to
other
Of
whiche
somme
saye
that
one
of
thise
pylers
was
of
a
stone
as
hard
as
.
marble
/
and
of
suche
nature
that
water
myght
not
empayre
it
ne
defface
ne
mynysshe
it
/
And
they
made
other
in
a
stronge
maner
of
tyles
all
hole
wyth
out
ony
Ioyntures
that
fyre
myght
not
hurte
it
in
no
wyse
.
In
thyse
grete
colompnes
or
pylers
as
sayd
is
were
entaylled
and
grauen
the
vij
sciences
in
suche
wyse
/
that
they
that
shold
come
after
them
/
shold
fynde
and
lerne
them
/
¶
Of
them
that
fonde
the
science
&
the
clergye
after
the
flood
/
Capitulo
xijo.
AS
ye
may
vnrerstonde
the
seuen
scyences
lyberall
were
fouuden
by
auncyent
wyse
men
out
of
whiche
alle
other
sciences
procede
.
Thyse
were
they
to
whom
our
lord
hath
gyuen
them
and
enseygned
doubtyng
the
deluuye
that
god
sente
in
to
th
erthe
/
the
whiche
drowned
alle
creatures
reseruyd
Noe
and
them
that
he
toke
in
to
the
arke
with
hym
.
And
after
this
the
world
was
repeoplyd
and
made
agayn
by
them
that
descended
of
them
For
after
the
tyme
of
noe
the
people
began
to
make
agayn
howses
&
mansions
.
&
to
make
redy
other
werkis
.
but
this
was
moche
rudely
as
they
that
coude
but
right
lytyl
vnto
the
tyme
that
thyse
sciences
were
founden
agayn
and
thenne
coude
they
better
make
&
doo
that
was
nedeful
and
propyce
to
them
/
And
fynde
remedye
for
their
euellys
.
the
first
that
applyed
hym
and
entermeted
for
to
enquyre
and
serche
these
sciences
after
the
flood
was
Sem
one
of
the
sones
of
Noe
/
whiche
had
gyuen
his
corage-therto
.
&
in
suche
wyse
he
dyde
therin
suche
dylygence
&
so
contynued
.
that
by
his
wytte
he
fonde
apartye
of
astronomye
.
after
hym
was
abraham
whiche
also
fonde
a
grete
partie
&
after
hym
were
other
that
vsed
their
lyff
the
best
wyse
they
myght
so
moche
that
they
had
the
pryncyples
and
resons
of
the
seuen
scyences
.
And
after
cam
Plato
the
sage
and
right
souerayn
in
philosophye
/
and
his
clerke
named
/
Aristotle
the
wyse
clercke
/
This
plato
was
the
man
aboue
all
them
of
the
world
in
clergye
the
most
experte
of
them
that
were
to fore
or
after
hym
.
he
preuyd
first
that
ther
was
but
one
that
was
only
souerayn
/
whiche
all
made
and
of
whom
alle
good
thynge
cometh
/
yet
his
lokes
approue
hyely
that
ther
ne
is
but
one
souerayn
whiche
alle
made
.
And
of
whom
all
good
thynge
cometh
/
yet
his
bookes
approue
hyely
that
ther
ne
is
but
one
souerayn
good
.
that
is
our
lord
god
whiche
made
all
thynges
.
&
in
this
only
veryte
.
he
preuyd
the
right
trouth●
/
For
he
preued
his
power
.
his
wysedom
.
and
his
goodnes
Theyse
thee
bouūtees
reclayme
alle
crysten
men
.
that
is
the
fader
.
the
sone
/
&
the
holy
goste
.
Of
the
fader
he
sayde
the
power
and
puyssaunce
/
Of
the
sone
sapyence
/
and
of
the
holy
gost
the
benyuolence
/
And
arystotle
whiche
cam
after
hym
holdeth
plente
of
thynges
nyghe
to
hym
/
and
knewe
the
thynges
that
he
had
sayd
/
And
ordeyned
right
wel
the
scyence
of
logyke
.
For
he
knewe
more
therof
than
of
other
sciences
/
Thyse
ij
.
notable
clerkes
fonde
by
their
wysedom
&
connyng
/
thre
persones
in
one
essence
/
&
preuyd
it
.
but
they
put
it
not
in
latyn
For
bothe
two
were
paynems
.
as
they
that
were
more
than
thre
hondred
yere
to
fore
the
comynge
of
one
lord
Ihu
crist
And
alle
the
bookes
there
in
grekyssh
lettres
/
After
cam
boece
whiche
was
a
grete
philosophre
&
right
wyse
clerk
/
the
whiche
coude
byhelpe
hym
wyth
dyuerse
langages
/
and
louyd
moche
rigtwysnes
/
This
boece
translated
of
their
bookes
the
most
partye
.
and
sette
them
in
latyn
/
But
he
deyde
er
he
had
alle
translated
them
/
wherof
was
grete
dommage
for
vs
alle
/
Syth
haue
other
clerkes
translated
.
but
this
boece
translated
more
than
ony
other
/
The
whiche
we
haue
yet
in
vsage
/
And
compiled
in
his
lyff
plente
of
fair
volumes
aourned
of
hye
and
noble
philosophye
/
of
whiche
we
haue
yet
grete
nede
for
tadresse
vs
toward
our
lord
god
And
many
other
good
clerkes
haue
ben
in
this
world
of
greete
auctoryte
whiche
haue
lerned
and
studyed
alle
their
tyme
vpon
the
sciences
of
the
seuen
artes
/
Of
whiche
heue
ben
somme
that
in
their
tyme
haue
do
meruaylles
by
Astronomye
.
But
aboue
alle
them
that
most
entremeted
&
traueylled
vpon
the
science
of
astronomye
.
was
virgile
whiche
compyled
many
merueyllous
werkes
.
&
therfor
we
shal
recounte
a
lytyl
here
folowyng
of
the
meruaylles
he
dyde
/
¶
Here
folowe
in
substaunce
of
the
meruaylles
that
virgyle
wrought
by
Astronomye
in
his
tyme
by
his
wytte
Capitulo
.
xiijo.
UIrgyle
the
wyse
philosophre
born
in
Italie
was
to
fore
the
commyng
of
our
lord
Ihesu
Cryste
he
sette
not
lytyl
by
the
vij
sciences
/
For
he
trauaylled
and
studyed
in
them
the
most
part
of
his
tyme
somoche
that
by
a
astronomye
he
made
many
grete
meruaylles
/
For
he
made
in
Naples
a
flye
of
copper
/
Whiche
whan
he
had
sette
it
vp
in
a
place
/
That
flye
enchaced
and
hunted
away
alle
other
flyes
.
so
that
abyde
none
in
ony
place
ne
durste
not
approche
nyghe
to
that
flye
by
the
space
of
two
bowe
shote
rounde
a
bowte
/
And
yf
ony
flye
passed
the
bounde
that
Vyrgyle
had
compassed
.
Incontynent
he
shold
deye
/
and
myght
no
lenger
lyue
He
had
also
an
horse
of
bras
/
the
whiche
guarysshed
and
heled
all
horses
of
all
their
maladyes
and
sekenesses
of
whiche
they
were
entetched
.
also
soone
as
the
seke
horse
loked
on
the
horse
of
brasse
/
Also
he
founded
a
merueyllouse
cyte
vpon
an
egge
by
suche
force
and
power
/
that
whan
the
egge
was
moued
.
all
the
cyte
quaued
and
shoke
.
And
the
more
the
egge
was
moued
/
the
more
the
cyte
quaued
and
trembred
/
The
cyte
in
hie
and
lowe
and
playne
/
The
flye
of
copper
.
and
horse
of
brasse
that
Vyrgyīe
thus
made
ben
in
Raples
.
And
the
cage
where
the
egge
is
in
.
all
ben
there
seen
.
This
hath
be
sayd
to
vs
of
them
/
that
be
comen
fro
thens
▪
that
many
tymes
hath
seen
theim
.
Also
he
made
that
in
one
daye
all
the
fyre
thrughe
out
Rome
failled
.
and
was
quenched
/
in
suche
wyse
that
no
persone
myghte
haue
none
.
But
yf
he
wente
and
fette
it
at
the
nature
of
a
woman
wyth
a
candell
or
otherwyse
.
And
she
was
doughter
of
th
emperour
and
a
grete
lady
/
whiche
to fore
had
doon
to
hym
a
gre●e
sclaundre
and
dysplaysure
.
and
all
they
that
had
fette
fyre
at
her
/
myght
not
adresse
it
to
other
.
but
eueryche
that
wolde
haue
fire
muste
nedes
goo
fette
it
there
as
the
other
had
fette
it
.
And
thus
auenged
he
hym
on
her
.
for
the
dysplaysure
that
she
had
doon
to
hym
/
And
he
made
a
brydge
vpon
a
water
.
the
greteste
that
euer
was
made
in
the
worlde
/
And
is
not
knowen
of
what
mater
it
is
made
/
whether
it
is
of
stone
or
of
wode
.
But
ther
was
neuer
w●rkman
so
subtyll
ne
carpenter
ne
mason
/
ne
other
that
cowde
somoche
knowe
ne
enserche
wythin
the
erthe
/
ne
wythin
the
water
.
that
they
myghte
knowe
and
fynde
howe
that
brydge
was
there
sette
ne
how
it
was
sustyned
in
no
manere
/
ne
atte
endes
.
ne
in
the
myddes
.
and
men
passed
ouer
frely
/
And
all
wythoute
lettynge
/
He
made
also
a
garden
all
a
boute
rounde
closed
wyth
thayer
.
wythoute
ony
other
closure
/
whiche
was
as
thycke
as
a
clowde
.
And
this
gardyne
was
right
hye
fro
th
erthe
/
He
made
also
two
tapres
and
a
laumpe
light
&
brennynge
in
suche
wyse
that
it
contynuelly
brenned
wythoute
quenchyng
.
and
mynushed
ne
lessed
noo
thynge
/
Thise
thre
thynges
he
enclosed
wythin
the
erthe
in
suche
wyse
that
noo
man
can
fynde
it
/
For
all
the
crafte
they
can
doo
/
Yet
made
he
an
hede
to
speke
/
Whiche
answered
of
all
that
whiche
he
was
demaunded
of
.
And
of
that
whiche
shold
happen
&
〈◊〉
in
the
erthe
/
Soo
on
a
daye
he
demaunded
of
the
hede
how
he
sholde
doo
vnto
in
a
certeyne
werke
where
as
he
sh●lde
goo
vnto
.
But
the
hede
answered
to
hym
in
suche
wyse
that
he
vnderstode
it
not
well
.
For
it
sayd
that
yf
he
keped
well
the
hede
/
he
sholde
come
agayne
all
hole
/
and
wyth
this
answere
he
wente
his
waye
well
assured
/
But
the
sonne
whiche
that
daye
gaaf
grete
hete
smote
hym
on
the
hede
and
chauffed
his
brayne
/
of
whiche
he
toke
no
hede
/
that
he
gate
therby
a
sekenes
and
malady
/
wherof
he
deyed
.
For
whan
he
had
the
answere
of
the
hede
that
he
vnderstode
not
that
he
spake
of
his
hede
/
but
he
vnderstode
of
the
hede
that
spak
to
hym
/
but
it
had
be
better
that
he
had
kept
well
his
owne
hede
And
whan
he
felte
hym selfe
agreued
wyth
sekenesse
.
he
made
hym
to
be
borne
oute
of
rome
.
For
to
be
buried
in
a
castell
.
beynge
toward
Sezyle
/
and
a
myle
nyghe
the
see
/
Yet
ben
there
his
bones
/
whiche
ben
better
kepte
than
others
ben
And
whan
the
bones
of
hym
ben
remeued
/
The
see
begynneth
to
encreace
and
swell
soo
gretly
that
it
cometh
to
the
castell
.
And
the
hyer
they
ben
reysed
vp
.
The
hyer
groweth
the
see
in
suche
wyse
that
the
castel
shold
be
drowned
yf
they
were
not
anon
remysed
and
sette
in
their
place
but
thenne
whan
they
be
sette
agayn
in
their
place
anon
the
see
aualeth
.
and
gooth
away
there
as
it
was
to
fore
/
And
this
hath
be
oftymes
proued
/
and
yet
endure
the
vertues
of
him
as
they
saye
that
haue
ben
there
/
Virgyle
was
a
moche
sage
and
subtyl
clerke
and
full
of
grete
engyne
/
For
vnto
his
power
he
wold
preue
alle
the
vsages
of
clerkes
/
as
moche
as
was
possyble
for
hym
to
knowe
/
He
was
a
man
of
lytyl
stature
/
alytyl
courbed
was
he
on
the
back
by
right
nature
.
And
wente
his
heed
hangyng
doun
and
beholydyng
the
ground
/
Virgyle
dyde
and
made
many
grete
meruaylles
/
whiche
the
herers
shold
holde
for
lesynges
yf
they
herde
them
recounted
/
For
they
wolde
not
byleue
that
a nother
coude
doo
suche
thynge
/
as
they
coude
not
medle
wyth
.
And
whan
they
here
speke
of
suche
maters
or
of
other
that
they
see
at
their
eyen
.
And
that
they
/
can
not
vnderstonde
ne
knowe
not
therof
/
Anon
they
saye
that
it
is
by
thelpe
of
the
fende
that
werketh
in
suche
maner
.
as
they
that
gladly
myssaye
of
people
of
recommendacion
.
And
also
saye
it
is
good
not
to
conne
suche
thynges
.
but
yf
they
knewe
the
scyence
and
maner
.
they
wold
holde
it
for
a
moche
noble
and
right
werke
of
nature
.
&
wythout
ony
other
espece
of
euyll
/
And
whan
they
knowe
not
ne
vnderstonde
the
thynge
/
they
saye
moche
more
euyll
than
wel
.
Certaynly
who
that
knewe
well
Astronomye
ther
is
nothyng
in
the
world
.
of
whiche
he
coude
enquyre
by
reson
/
but
he
shold
haue
knowlege
therof
.
And
many
thynges
shold
he
doo
.
that
shold
seme
myracles
to
the
people
whiche
that
knewe
nothynge
of
the
science
/
I
saye
not
but
ther
myght
be
well
don
euyll
by
hym
that
coude
it
.
For
ther
is
none
so
good
science
.
but
that
myght
be
entended
therin
somme
malyce
.
&
that
he
myght
vse
it
in
euil
that
wolde
so
applie
hym
therto
God
made
neuerso
good
a
gospel
.
but
somme
myghte
tonrne
it
contrarye
to
trouthe
/
&
ther
is
no
thyng
so
true
/
but
somme
myght
so
glose
that
it
myghte
be
to
hys
dampnac̄on
who
that
wolde
payne
hym
to
do
euyl
/
how
wel
it
is
no
maystrye
to
do
yll
.
Eueri
man
hath
the
power
to
drawe
hym
sylf
to
do
well
.
or
to
do
euyl
/
whiche
that
he
wylle
/
as
he
that
hath
fre
liberte
of
that
one
&
of
that
other
/
yf
he
gyue
hym sylfe
to
vertues
.
thys
goodnes
cometh
to
hym
fro
our
lord
and
yf
he
be
enclyned
to
do
euyl
.
that
bryngeth
hym
at
th
ende
to
sorow
and
to
payne
p●erpetuell
/
Neuer
shal
the
euyl
disposed
man
saye
well
/
of
that
he
can
not
wele
vnderstonde
&
knowe
/
Ther
is
no
crafte
.
ar●e
ne
science
/
but
it
is
goode
to
be
knowen
whan
a
/
man
wol
gyue
and
applye
/
hym self
therto
/
But
late
hym
do
no
thynge
ayenst
god
by
whiche
he
leseth
his
grace
Alle
thynge
is
knowen
by
Astronomye
sauf
suche
thynge
as
god
wylle
that
it
he
not
knowen
.
And
so
it
is
better
to
lerne
that
than
to
lerne
to
amasse
and
gader
to
gyder
grete
tresours
/
For
who
that
coude
/
Astronomye
properly
.
he
sholde
haue
alle
that
he
wold
haue
on
erth
/
For
hym
shold
faill
no
thynge
what
someuer
he
wold
.
and
yet
more
/
But
they
had
leuer
haue
the
moneye
/
And
they
knowe
not
that
it
is
of
Astronomye
ne
wherfore
money
was
founden
.
how
wele
that
they
applye
all
their
entendement
for
to
haue
it
▪
But
they
retche
not
for
to
lerne
.
sauf
that
whiche
they
knowe
shall
redounde
to
theyr
singuler
prouffyt
/
And
yet
for
all
that
we
shal
not
leue
/
but
that
we
shal
recyte
somme
caas
for
them
that
haue
talente
for
to
lerne
/
And
late
hym
herkyn
and
take
hede
that
wyll
vnderstande
it
/
¶
Here
declareth
for
what
cause
monoye
was
first
establisshid
.
Capitulo
.
xiiijo.
THe
monoyes
were
establysshed
/
first
for
as
moche
as
they
had
not
of
alle
thynges
necessarye
to
gydre
That
one
had
whete
/
another
had
wyn
/
and
another
cloth
or
other
wares
/
he
that
had
whete
/
had
not
wyn
wythout
he
chaunged
one
for
another
.
and
so
muste
they
dayly
chaunge
one
for
another
.
For
to
haue
that
they
had
not
.
as
they
that
knewe
none
other
mene
.
Whan
the
philosophers
sawe
this
/
they
dyde
so
moche
that
they
establisshed
wyth
the
lordes
somtyme
regnyng
/
a
lytyl
lyght
thynge
whiche
eueri
man
myght
bere
wyth
hym
to
bye
that
was
nedeful
to
hym
and
behoefful
for
his
lyf
.
and
so
ordeyned
by
aduyse
to
gydre
a
thyng
whiche
was
not
ouer
dere
ne
holden
for
ouer
vyle
.
And
that
it
were
of
somme
valure
for
to
bye
&
vse
with
all
true
marchandyse
one
wyth
another
.
by
vertue
of
suche
enseygne
/
And
that
it
were
comune
ouerall
and
in
all
maner
/
And
establed
thenne
a
lytyl
moneye
whiche
shold
go●
and
haue
cours
thurgh
the
world
/
And
by
cause
it
lad
men
by
the
waye
and
mynystred
to
them
that
was
necessarye
it
was
called
monoye
.
That
is
as
moche
to
saye
.
as
to
gyue
to
aman
all
that
hym
be
houeth
for
his
lyuyng
.
Monos
in
grekyssh
langage
is
as
moche
to
saye
.
as
one
thyng
only
/
For
thenne
was
but
one
maner
of
monoye
in
all
the
world
But
now
euery
man
maketh
monoye
at
his
playsir
by
whiche
they
desuoye
and
goo
out
of
the
waye
more
than
yf
ther
were
but
one
coyne
only
/
For
by
this
cause
is
seen
ofte
plente
of
dyuerse
monoyes
.
Thus
establysshed
not
the
philosophers
/
For
they
establysshed
for
to
saue
the
state
of
the
world
.
And
I
saye
it
for
as
moche
yf
the
monoye
were
out
of
grotes
&
pens
of
siluer
so
thenne
it
shold
be
of
lasse
weyght
and
lasse
of
valewe
/
and
that
shold
be
better
for
to
bere
by
the
waye
for
poure
folke
/
and
better
shold
be
easid
for
the
helpe
of
their
nedes
to
their
lyuyng
/
And
for
none
other
cause
it
was
ordeyned
first
.
For
the
monoyes
be
not
preysed
but
for
the
gold
and
siluer
that
is
therin
/
And
they
that
establisshed
it
first
/
made
it
right
lytyl
and
lyght
/
For
the
more
ease
to
be
born
al
aboute
.
where
men
wold
goo
.
for
now
In
late
dayes
as
in
the
begynnyng
of
the
regne
of
kynge
Edward
&
longe
after
was
no
monoye
curraunt
in
Englond
but
pens
and
half
pens
and
ferthynges
.
And
be
ordeyned
first
the
grote
and
half
grote
of
siluer
/
And
noble
half
noble
and
ferthyng
in
gold
/
¶
Here
foloweth
of
phylosophers
that
wente
thurgh
the
world
Capitulo
/
xvᵒ.
THus
the
philosophers
by
the
moyen
of
their
monoye
wente
where
they
wolde
thurgh
the
world
.
And
the
marchantes
/
in
their
marchandyses
.
or
in
pylgremages
/
o●
in
pourchacyng
&
enquyryng
somme
places
that
they
wold
knowe
of
▪
whom
ther
were
many
whiche
were
philosophers
/
&
that
wold
haue
experyence
of
alle
thynges
&
they
wente
by
see
&
by
londe
for
tenserche
the
very
trouthe
of
the
secrete
thynges
of
heuen
&
of
erthe
/
They
rested
them
not
by
the
grete
fyres
ne
brassed
not
as
som
doo
now
in
thyse
dayes
in
the
worlde
the
whiche
gyue
them
to
doo
no
good
ne
applye
to
no
vertues
/
but
yf
it
be
to
haue
the
loos
and
preysyng
of
the
world
.
But
they
wente
serchyng
by
the
see
and
the
londe
on
alle
partyes
for
to
knowe
the
better
the
good
and
the
euyll
.
and
for
to
conne
discerue
that
one
fro
that
other
/
by
whiche
they
endured
many
grete
trauaylles
for
to
gete
the
sauyng
of
theyr
sowles
.
and
at
this
day
alle
men
seche
to
gete
rychesses
and
tresour
.
and
the
name
to
be
callyd
maystre
for
to
gete
louyng
and
honour
of
the
world
/
whiche
so
hastely
faylleth
/
Certaynly
an
euyll
man
may
not
thynke
on
hye
thynges
.
For
who
that
is
of
erthe
to
th
erthe
entendeth
.
And
who
pretendeth
to
god
.
God
attendeth
to
hym
/
for
god
hym self
sayth
who
that
is
of
th
erthe
speketh
of
th
erthe
/
And
who
that
cometh
fro
heuen
vnto
heuen
pretendeth
he
wythout
other
.
The
philosophers
that
wel
coude
vnderstonde
this
worde
.
had
moche
leuer
to
suffre
trauaylles
and
mesayses
for
to
lerne
/
than
tendende
to
worldly
honours
/
For
they
helde
for
more
dere
and
worthy
the
sciences
&
the
clergyes
.
than
all
the
seygnoryes
of
the
world
Plato
whiche
was
a
puissaunt
and
a
recommended
maystre
of
Athenes
lefte
his
noble
estate
and
his
place
by
cause
he
wold
of
suche
renommee
lyue
/
that
he
serched
many
londes
&
contrees
/
And
had
leuer
haue
payne
.
mesayse
&
trauayll
for
tenserche
trouthe
/
and
for
to
lerne
science
than
for
to
haue
seynourye
and
domynacyon
in
the
world
ne
renommee
for
to
be
mayster
.
For
he
wold
saye
nothyng
but
yf
he
were
certayn
therof
/
For
ony
veyne
glorye
of
the
world
Apolynes
whiche
was
so
grete
a
prynce
lefte
his
empire
and
his
royamme
.
and
departed
al
poure
and
naked
for
to
lerne
the
sciences
.
And
he
was
taken
and
solde
oftymes
to
straunge
men
/
Ne
neuer
was
ther
none
of
them
so
valyant
of
all
them
that
bought
&
solde
.
that
he
sette
ought
therby
so
that
he
myght
alle
way
lerne
And
more
trauaylled
on
alle
partyes
for
to
lerne
and
knowe
god
.
&
the
world
/
Whiche
he
loued
better
than
ony
other
worldly
thyng
&
he
wente
so
ferre
that
he
fonde
syttyng
in
a
Trone
of
golde
an
hye
philosophre
&
of
grete
renommee
/
the
whiche
enseygned
&
taught
his
disciples
wythin
his
trone
where
he
satte
/
&
lerned
them
of
the
faytes
of
nature
of
good
mauers
/
the
cours
of
the
dayes
and
of
the
sterres
¶
And
the
reson
and
sygnefiaunce
of
thynges
touchyng
of
sapience
and
wysedom
.
This
philosophre
was
named
hyarchas
.
Affter
appolynes
serched
by
many
contrees
so
ferre
that
he
fonde
the
table
of
fyn
golde
whiche
was
of
grete
renommee
/
that
it
was
named
the
table
of
the
sonne
.
wherin
alle
the
world
was
pourtrayed
Therin
saw
he
and
lerned
many
faytes
and
many
meruaylles
.
Whiche
he
loued
more
than
ony
Royamme
/
he
erred
so
ferre
by
strange
londes
that
he
passed
the
flood
of
Ganges
and
alle
Inde
/
&
in
th
ende
so
ferre
.
that
he
myght
fynde
no
more
way
.
&
where
someuer
he
cam
he
fonde
&
lerned
alleway
.
suche
as
myght
auaylle
and
prouffyte
to
hym self
and
other
for
tauaunce
hym
tofore
god
/
Thus
the
kynge
alysaunder
also
suffred
trauaylles
wythout
nombre
for
to
lerne
/
But
he
wente
fro
place
to
place
in
estate
ryall
/
And
wyth
puyssance
of
people
/
wherefor
he
myght
not
so
well
lerne
ne
enquyre
the
trouthe
of
thynges
/
¶
Virgyle
also
wente
thurgh
many
contrees
for
to
enquyre
and
serche
the
trouthe
of
alle
thynges
/
Tholomeus
whiche
of
Egypte
was
kynge
was
not
all
quyte
of
his
parte
.
but
wente
by
many
contrees
and
Royammes
for
to
lerne
.
experymente
and
see
all
the
good
clerkes
that
he
myght
fynde
.
Saynt
Brandon
neuer
lefte
for
to
laboure
by
see
and
by
lande
/
For
only
to
see
and
lerne
/
And
he
sawe
plente
of
grete
meruaylles
.
For
he
cam
in
to
an
yle
of
the
see
/
Where
he
sawe
certayn
byrdes
whiche
spake
as
spyrites
.
whiche
sayde
to
hym
somtchyng
whiche
he
demaunded
of
them
the
vnderstondyng
/
And
so
ferre
he
erred
that
he
fonde
one
so
perylous
a
place
and
so
full
of
spirites
in
so
terryble
tormentys
/
that
they
coude
not
be
nombred
ne
estemed
.
emonge
whom
he
sawe
one
that
asnwerd
to
hym
and
sayde
that
he
was
Iudas
that
betrayed
Ihu
cryst
whiche
euery
day
was
tormented
an
hondred
tymes
and
dye
he
myght
not
and
plente
of
other
grete
meruaylles
he
sawe
.
as
alonge
is
recounted
in
the
legende
of
his
lyf
/
Ther
were
many
other
philosophers
that
serched
the
world
as
was
possyble
for
them
to
do
for
to
knowe
the
better
the
good
&
the
euyl
&
spared
for
nothing
/
For
they
byleued
not
lyghtly
a
thynge
tyl
they
knewe
it
wel
by
experience
Ne
al
that
they
fonde
in
their
bookes
.
to fore
they
had
preuid
it
for
to
knowe
god
the
better
&
to
loue
hym
But
they
serched
by
see
&
by
lande
/
tyl
they
had
enserched
all
/
&
thenne
after
retorned
agayn
to
their
studyes
alleway
for
to
lerne
the
vertues
&
good
maners
/
And
thus
loued
so
moche
philosophye
/
For
to
knowe
them self
the
better
in
good
&
iust
lyf
.
But
by
cause
that
many
tymes
we
haue
spoken
of
philosophye
&
that
somoche
good
cometh
therof
that
a
man
haue
therby
vnderstondyng
to
knowe
&
loue
god
/
therfor
we
shal
telle
to
yow
what
it
signefyeth
/
¶
What
thyng
is
philosophye
/
and
of
th
answer
that
plato
made
therof
.
Capitulo
.
xvjo.
UEray
Phylosophye
is
to
haue
knowleche
of
god
and
fyn
loue
of
sapience
.
And
to
knowe
the
secretes
and
ordynaunces
of
dyuyne
thynges
.
and
of
humayne
/
For
to
knowe
god
and
his
power
.
and
what
a
man
ought
to
be
.
So
that
he
myght
conduyte
hym
that
it
myght
be
to
god
agreable
.
Who
that
well
knewe
god
and
his
mysteryes
/
he
shold
well
conne
entyerly
philosophye
/
Alle
they
ben
good
philosophers
that
of
them self
haue
knowleche
.
¶
Of
whom
plato
answerd
to
somme
that
demanded
hym
in
comune
/
and
sayd
to
hym
that
he
had
lerned
ynowh
and
nedeth
nomore
.
For
he
had
estudyed
alle
his
tyme
for
to
lerne
.
And
it
was
sayd
to
hym
.
Maystre
it
is
wel
in
yow
for
to
saye
to
vs
.
somme
good
word
proceding
of
hye
entendement
.
as
ye
haue
don
other
tymes
/
Thenne
plato
how
wel
that
he
was
the
most
experymented
of
other
answerd
sayeng
as
in
his
herte
troubled
.
that
he
had
nomore
lerned
sauf
as
moche
as
he
that
felte
hym self
lyke
vnto
a
vessel
that
day
and
nyght
is
all
voyde
&
empty
/
Thus
moche
answerd
Plato
&
nomore
.
how
wel
he
was
at
that
tyme
the
most
grete
clerke
that
was
knowen
in
al
the
world
and
of
moche
perfounde
science
.
they
that
on
thyse
dayes
wyl
medle
.
take
non
hede
to
answere
thus
.
but
make
semblaunt
to
be
moche
grete
clerkis
and
experte
/
for
to
gete
the
loos
&
preysyng
of
the
world
whiche
le●eth
them
to
dampnacyon
And
bryngeth
their
folye
in
to
their
hedes
so
that
they
entende
nomore
to
vertues
than
doo
bestis
.
For
they
be
not
all
clerkes
that
haue
short
typettis
.
For
ther
be
many
that
haue
the
Araye
of
a
clerke
.
that
can
not
wel
vnderstande
that
he
redeth
.
ne
yet
somme
that
be
prestis
can
notwele
&
truly
rede
neyther
.
And
whan
suche
knowe
ony
thynge
that
them
seme
be
of
valew
.
Thenne
wene
they
to
knowe
alle
But
moche
remayneth
of
their
folyshe
consayte
/
They
be
of
the
nature
of
proude
foolis
that
ben
surquydrous
.
that
seche
nothynge
but
loos
and
preysyng
of
the
people
/
And
traueylle
them self
for
to
deceyue
the
world
.
This
shal
they
abye
dere
ones
.
It
were
better
for
them
to
lerne
suche
scyence
/
that
shold
make
them
to
vnderstande
trouthe
and
right
/
Lyke
as
thyse
Auncyent
wyse
men
dyde
/
the
whiche
so
lytyll
preysed
the
worlde
/
that
alle
theyr
tyme
they
ocupyed
in
lernyng
of
philosophye
.
¶
Thus
estudyed
auncyently
the
philosophers
to
fore
their
deth
for
tadresse
theim
and
other
to
theyr
maker
and
creatour
/
And
in
dede
traueylled
moche
for
to
adresse
all
peple
to
wertue
/
They
ordeyned
the
monyes
that
they
bare
for
to
haue
theyr
lyuelode
in
byenge
and
payeng
/
For
men
gyue
not
alwaye
And
for
couetyse
of
the
peple
that
/
haue
fere
of
their
dyspentes
.
it
corumpeth
right
and
nature
/
For
by
reason
and
ryght
eueryche
ought
to
take
his
lyuyng
/
And
therfore
was
money
establisshed
for
to
susteyn
to
eueryche
his
lyuyng
whan
they
wente
by
the
waye
.
But
they
loue
their
caraynes
and
bodyes
moche
more
than
nede
is
/
And
reteyne
and
kepe
more
goodes
and
richesse
than
they
shall
nede
for
their
ordynary
/
whiche
thei
lete
rote
and
fayle
by
theim
/
And
see
that
many
poure
persones
haue
grete
nede
therof
/
The
monyes
were
not
founde
for
this
cause
.
but
for
to
haue
their
lyuynge
vnto
the
tyme
that
deth
cometh
&
taketh
all
that
he
oughte
to
take
at
the
playsur
of
god
/
And
thus
they
shol●e
be
more
eased
.
than
they
now
be
and
eueryche
sholde
haue
that
hym
lacked
/
and
they
shold
leue
to
do
so
many
synnes
.
But
they
ben
not
soo
wyse
as
were
they
/
that
by
theyr
wytte
founde
agayn
Astronomye
/
of
whom
Tholomeus
was
on●
.
And
traueylled
soo
moche
/
that
he
knewe
and
proued
the
course
of
the
sterres
that
ben
on
the
heuen
.
and
mesured
theim
all
on
hie
/
wherof
we
haue
spoken
here
to fore
/
And
now
we
shall
recounte
from
hens
forthe
the
gretnes
of
the
erth
.
and
of
heuen
.
of
the
Mone
/
of
the
Sonne
.
of
the
Sterres
and
of
the
planetes
.
Whiche
thynges
ben
not
comune
to
euery
man
:
Lyke
as
the
kynge
Tholomeus
hym selfe
mesured
theym
vnto
the
Abysme
.
And
preued
by
reason
in
a
boke
that
he
compyled
named
Almageste
.
whiche
ye
as
moche
to
saye
as
an
hye
werke
/
Thenne
wylle
ye
here
what
he
sayth
herto
.
Whiche
many
a nother
hathe
also
proued
after
hym
by
his
boke
/
In
whichehe
gaaf
the
crafte
and
scyence
to
proue
and
see
it
by
reyson
.
¶
How
moche
the
erthe
is
of
heyght
rounde
aboute
and
of
thickenes
by
the
myddle
/
Capitulo
xvij
THe
anncyent
philosophers
mesured
the
world
on
all
partyes
/
by
their
scyence
/
arte
and
wytte
vnto
the
ste●res
all
on
hie
/
of
whiche
they
wolde
knowe
the
mesure
.
For
to
knowe
the
better
their
nature
/
but
first
they
wolde
mesure
the
erthe
and
preue
his
gretnes
/
And
thenne
whan
they
had
mesured
there
all
a
bout
by
a
crafte
that
they
knewe
.
and
proued
by
ryght
reyson
/
they
mesured
it
rounde
aboute
.
like
as
they
sholde
haue
compassed
it
all
about
wyth
a
gyrdle
.
And
thenne
they
stratched
out
the
gyrdle
all
a
long
And
thenne
that
whiche
wente
oute
of
lengthe
of
the
gyrdle
.
they
fonde
it
in
lengthe
xx
M.
CCCC
.
and
xx
vij
.
myles
/
Of
whiche
euery
myle
conteyneth
a
thousande
paas
&
eueri
paas
v.
fote
/
and
eueri
fote
xiiij
ynches
/
Soo
moche
hath
the
erthe
in
lengthe
rounde
a
boute
/
by
this
fonde
they
after
how
thycke
th
erthe
is
in
the
myddle
.
And
they
fonde
the
thycknes
therof
like
as
it
sholde
be
clefte
in
the
myddes
from
the
hieste
to
the
loweste
/
Or
from
that
one
side
to
that
other
vj.
M.
and
v.
C
myles
/
By
this
last
mesure
/
whiche
is
after
nature
right
they
mesured
iustly
the
heyghte
of
the
firmament
/
For
they
coude
nowhere
fynde
a
gretter
mesure
for
to
extende
the
gretnesse
of
all
thynges
whiche
ben
enclosed
wythin
the
heuen
/
¶
How
the
mone
and
the
sonne
haue
eche
of
theym
theyr
propre
heyghte
.
Capitulo
xviij
THerthe
as
the
auncyent
philosophers
saye
/
after
they
had
mesured
it
/
ther
mesured
the
sterres
/
the
planetes
&
the
firmamente
/
And
first
they
mesured
the
mone
and
preuyd
his
gretnesse
/
And
they
fonde
the
body
of
th
erthe
wythout
&
wythinne
/
that
after
their
comune
mesure
it
was
more
grete
/
than
the
body
of
the
mone
was
/
by
xxix
tymes
&
a
lityl
more
/
And
they
fonde
that
it
was
in
heyght
aboue
the
erthe
xxiiij
tymes
&
an
half
as
moche
as
th
erthe
hath
of
thycknes
.
Also
in
lyke
wyse
preuyd
they
touchyng
the
sonne
by
very
demonstraunce
and
by
reson
/
that
the
sonne
is
gretter
than
alle
th
erthe
is
.
by
an
hondred
syxty
&
sixe
sythes
.
But
they
that
knowe
nothynge
herof
/
vnnethe
and
wyth
grete
payne
wyl
byleue
it
/
And
yet
it
is
suffysantly
preuyd
/
as
wel
by
maystryse
of
science
/
as
by
verray
connyng
of
geometrye
Of
whiche
haue
ben
many
syth
the
philosophers
that
fonde
this
first
/
that
haue
studyed
&
traualled
for
to
knowe
the
trouthe
/
Yf
it
were
so
as
is
sayde
/
or
not
/
Somoche
that
by
quyck
reson
they
haue
preuyd
that
th
auncyent
Philosophers
had
sayd
trouthe
as
well
of
the
quantyte
of
the
Sonne
as
of
the
heyght
/
¶
And
as
to
the
regard
of
hym
that
compyled
this
werke
/
he
sette
alle
his
entent
and
tyme
.
By
cause
he
hadde
so
grete
meruaylle
therof
.
Tyl
he
had
perceyuyd
playnly
that
of
whiche
he
was
in
doubte
/
For
he
sawe
appertly
that
the
Sonne
was
gretter
than
all
th
erthe
wythout
ony
defaulte
by
an
.
C.lxvj.
tymes
.
And
thre
partyes
of
the
xx
.
parte
of
th
erthe
/
wyth
all
this
that
th
auncyent
philosophers
sayde
And
thenne
byleuyd
he
that
/
whiche
was
gyue
hym
to
vnderstonde
/
And
he
had
neuer
put
this
in
wrytyng
.
yf
he
had
not
certaynly
knowen
the
trouthe
/
and
that
he
playnly
had
proued
it
And
it
may
wel
be
knowen
that
it
is
of
grete
quantyte
¶
Whan
it
is
so
moche
ferre
fro
vs
/
and
semeth
to
vs
so
lytyl
/
Ne
he
shal
neuer
be
so
ferre
aloue
vs
.
But
in
lyke
wyse
he
shal
be
as
ferre
whan
he
is
vnder
or
on
that
other
sayde
of
vs
And
for
trouthe
it
is
fro
th
erthe
vnto
the
sonne
lyfe
as
the
kynge
Tholomeus
hath
prouyd
it
/
fyue
hondred
lxxx
.
and
v
tymes
as
moche
as
th
erthe
may
haue
of
gretenes
and
thycknes
thurgh
/
¶
Here
foloweth
of
the
heyght
of
the
sterres
and
of
their
gretenesse
/
Capitulo
.
xixo.
NOw
wyll
I
recounte
to
you
briefly
/
of
the
sterres
of
the
firmament
of
whiche
ther
is
a
right
grete
nombre
/
And
they
ben
alle
of
one
heyghte
/
but
they
ben
not
alle
of
one
gretenes
.
And
it
behoueth
ouer
longe
narracion
that
of
alle
them
wold
descryue
the
gretenes
/
And
therfore
we
passe
lyghtly
ouer
and
shortly
/
how
well
I
aduertyse
you
&
certefye
.
that
ther
is
none
so
lytyl
of
them
that
ye
may
see
on
the
firmament
/
but
that
it
is
gretter
than
all
th
erthe
is
/
But
ther
is
none
of
them
so
grete
ne
so
shynyng
as
is
the
sonne
.
For
he
enlumyneth
all
the
other
by
his
beaulte
/
whiche
is
so
moche
noble
/
Fro
th
erthe
vnto
the
heuen
wherin
the
sterres
ben
sette
in
a
moche
grete
espace
/
for
it
is
tenthousand
&
lv.
sythes
as
moche
&
more
as
is
alle
th
erthe
of
thycknes
/
And
who
that
coude
●ccoūte
after
the
nombre
and
fourme
/
he
myght
knowe
how
many
ynches
it
is
of
the
honde
of
a
man
.
And
how
many
feet
/
how
many
myles
.
and
how
many
Iourneyes
.
It
is
from
hens
to
the
firmament
or
heuen
.
For
it
is
as
moche
way
vnto
the
heuen
/
As
yf
a
man
myght
goo
the
right
way
wythout
lettyng
.
and
that
he
myght
goo
euery
day
xxv
myle
of
fraunce
.
whiche
is
.
I.
englisshe
myle
.
and
that
he
taryed
not
on
the
waye
/
Yet
shold
he
goo
the
tyme
of
seuen
M.j.
C.
&
lvij
yere
and
an
half
.
er
he
had
goon
somoche
waye
as
fro
hens
vnto
the
heuen
where
the
sterres
be
in
.
Yf
the
firste
man
that
god
fourmed
uer
.
whiche
was
Adam
.
had
goon
fro
the
first
day
that
he
was
made
&
created
xxv
myles
euery
day
/
yet
shold
he
not
haue
comen
thyder
/
But
shold
haue
yet
the
space
of
vij
.
C.xiij
yere
to
goo
at
the
tyme
whan
this
volume
was
perfourmed
by
the
very
auctour
.
And
this
was
atte
Epyphanye
in
the
yere
of
grace
.i
M.ij
▪
C.
and
xlvj
.
that
tyme
shold
he
haue
had
so
moche
to
goo
/
Er
he
shold
come
theder
/
Or
yf
ther
were
there
a
grete
stone
whiche
shold
falle
fro
thens
vnto
th
erthe
/
it
shold
be
an
hondred
yere
er
it
cam
to
the
grounde
/
And
in
the
fallyng
it
shold
defcende
in
euery
hour
of
whiche
the●
be
xxiiij
in
a
day
complete
.xliij
myle
&
an
half
Yet
shold
it
be
so
longe
er
it
cam
to
th
erthe
.
This
thynge
hath
be
proued
by
hym
that
compiled
this
present
volume
er
he
cam
thus
ferre
in
this
werke
/
this
is
wel
xl
.
tymes
more
than
an
h●rs
may
goo
.
whiche
alleway
shold
goo
.
wyth
outrestynge
/
¶
Here
foloweth
of
the
nombre
of
sterres
.
Capitulo
.
xxᵒ.
TO
the
regard
of
the
sterres
we
shal
saye
to
yow
the
nombre
lyke
as
the
noble
kynge
Tholomeus
nombred
them
in
his
.
Almageste
/
to
whom
he
gaf
the
propre
names
.
And
sayd
that
ther
were
a
thousand
and
xxij
.
clere
.
and
that
myght
be
all
seen
.
wythout
the
vij
planetes
.
&
may
be
wel
acounted
wythout
ony
paryll
.
In
alle
ther
be
j
M.
and
xxix
/
whiche
may
wel
be
seen
wythout
many
other
whiche
may
not
wel
be
seen
ne
espyed
/
Ther
may
not
well
moo
be
espyed
but
so
many
as
sayd
is
ne
appertly
be
knowen
/
Now
late
hym
beholde
that
wyl
see
it
/
For
noman
trauaylle
he
neuer
so
moche
ne
studye
/
maye
fynde
nomore
.
Neuertheles
ther
is
no
man
lyuyng
that
may
or
can
compte
.
so
moche
.
or
can
so
hye
mounte
in
ony
place
/
though
hebe
garnysshid
of
a
moche
gentyl
instrument
/
and
right
subtyl
that
shold
fynde
moo
/
than
the
kynge
tholomeus
fonde
by
whiche
he
knewe
&
myght
nombre
them
.
and
where
eueryche
sitteth
/
and
how
ferre
it
is
from
one
to
an
other
/
be
it
of
one
or
other
or
nygh
or
ferre
.
And
the
knowlege
of
the
ymages
of
them
.
the
whiche
by
their
semblaunce
fourmed
them
For
the
sterres
whiche
be
named
.
ben
of
figures
on
the
heuone
and
compassed
by
ymages
.
and
that
all
haue
dyuerse
beynges
.
And
eueriche
hath
his
fourme
and
his
name
/
Of
whiche
ben
knowen
pryncypally
xlvij
wythin
the
firmament
.
And
of
them
ben
taken
xij
of
the
most
worthy
whiche
ben
called
the
xij
.
Sygnes
.
And
they
make
a
cercle
rounde
aboute
the
vij
planetes
where
as
they
make
their
torne
/
we
ben
moche
ferre
from
heuen
merueyllously
.
And
late
euery
man
knowe
that
he
that
deyeth
in
dedly
synne
.
shal
neuer
come
theder
.
And
the
blyssyd
sowle
whiche
is
departed
fro
the
body
in
good
estate
.
not
wythstondyng
the
longe
way
is
sone
come
thether
/
ye
truly
in
lasse
than
half
an
hour
/
and
vnto
the
most
hye
place
to
fore
the
souerayn
iuge
whiche
sitteth
on
the
ryght
side
of
god
the
fader
in
his
blessyd
heuen
/
the
whiche
is
so
full
of
delites
of
all
glorye
and
of
all
consolacyon
.
that
ther
is
no
man
in
thys
world
lyuyng
that
may
ne
can
esteme
or
thynke
the
Ioye
&
the
glorie
wher
thys
blessyd
soules
entreth
/
And
ther
ys
no
man
that
can
esteme
ne
thynke
the
capacyte
&
gretnes
of
heuen
/
ne
may
compare
it
ne
valewe
it
to
the
capacyte
and
gretnes
of
all
th
erthe
/
or
so
moche
as
maye
comprise
fro
th
erth
to
the
firmament
.
As
to
the
regarde
of
the
estymabyl
gretnes
aboue
the
firmament
.
ffor
the
gretnes
is
inestymable
with
oute
ende
&
with
oute
mesure
.
Certes
the
firmamente
on
hye
is
so
so
spacyus
so
nobyl
and
so
large
.
that
of
alle
his
wytte
may
not
a
man
vnneth
thynke
or
esteme
.
the
nomber
of
like
masses
as
all
th
erthe
is
/
that
shold
fylle
yt
.
yf
they
were
all
in
one
masse
/
Who
is
he
that
coude
or
myght
comprehende
or
compryse
the
grenes
of
them
.
Whan
they
all
be
assembled
And
euerich
as
grete
as
all
th
erth
.
Neuertheles
we
shall
saye
to
you
therof
.
as
moche
as
we
may
wele
ymagyne
.
Of
the
gretenes
of
the
firmament
.
and
of
the
heuene
whiche
is
a
boue
yt
.
Capitulo
.
xxjo.
YF
the
erthe
were
so
grete
&
so
spacyous
.
and
so
moche
more
for
to
reseyue
an
hondred
thousand
tymes
as
moche
pepyl
as
euer
were
in
thys
world
/
and
euery
man
of
them
were
so
myghty
for
to
engender
a nother
man
euery
day
durynge
/
an
hondreth
thousand
yere
/
&
that
euery
man
were
as
grete
as
a
Geaunt
/
&
euery
man
had
his
hows
as
grete
as
euer
had
eny
kynge
.
&
woodes
ryuers
chāpanyes
gardyns
medowe
&
pastures
&
vyneyerdes
.
eueych
a
boute
his
castell
or
place
for
to
lyue
wyth
/
&
that
ech
had
so
grete
foyson
/
that
euerych
myghte
holde
/
an
hondreth
seruauntes
for
to
serue
hym
.
and
euerych
of
this
seruaunte
helde
xx
other
.
&
had
therto
grete
roume
and
pourpris
in
their
maner
/
Alle
thyse
myght
moche
plenty●usly
be
reseruyd
in
the
firmament
&
yet
sholde
ther
be
moche
place
voyde
▪
more
than
all
they
myght
purprise
and
take
for
to
playe
and
disporte
them
therin
yf
they
wold
/
Thenne
ought
we
wel
to
knowe
/
that
our
lord
god
is
moche
myghty
.
and
of
ryghte
hye
affayre
/
whan
he
canne
make
of
noughte
so
noble
a
thynge
/
as
the
heuen
/
and
the
sonne
/
and
all
other
thynges
that
ben
on
the
heuen
in
thayer
.
on
th
erth
&
in
the
See
/
Suche
a
lord
and
suche
a
maister
oughte
wele
to
be
good
that
can
make
so
noble
thynges
/
of
whiche
we
haue
very
knowleche
.
&
we
oughte
parfytli
to
loue
hym
/
And
we
le
we
may
euery
man
thynke
that
the
thynge
that
is
a
boue
is
moche
gentyl
and
moche
nobyl
/
whan
it
that
is
vnder
is
so
subtyl
/
ffor
that
whiche
is
aboue
is
mor●
grete
an
hondred
thousand
tymes
than
it
whiche
is
benethe
/
&
ouer
moche
more
than
can
be
knowen
or
may
be
compted
by
ony
nombre
/
or
may
be
thought
/
For
this
is
a
thinge
that
in
no
manere
shal
haue
ende
ne
terme
/
¶
Therfore
I
may
wel
vnderstonde
/
that
ther
is
nothyng
that
may
pourpryse
/
ne
esteme
in
gretenes
ne
other
wyse
this
whiche
is
aboue
the
firmament
/
where
the
heuene
taketh
his
place
ne
may
be
replenysshid
ne
fylled
wyth
nothyng
that
may
be
/
but
yf
it
be
wyth
the
goodes
of
our
lord
god
fyllyd
/
but
the
right
debonayre
lorde
is
so
moche
full
of
all
goodes
that
be
fylleth
alle
other
thynges
/
whiche
ought
to
haue
parte
and
meryte
in
goodes
/
And
the
euyll
departeth
fro
the
good
in
suche
wyse
that
it
is
voyde
and
disgarnysshed
from
all
goodes
what
someuer
it
be
/
&
that
it
shal
be
lyke
as
it
were
nought
wherof
it
is
redde
herof
.
that
synne
is
nought
/
for
as
moche
as
it
is
voyde
&
disgarnysshid
of
all
goodes
&
rendrid
the
body
&
the
soule
somoche
feble
&
disgarnysed
of
all
goodes
of
all
vertues
/
&
of
all
graces
that
/
that
one
is
totally
dystroyed
and
perysshed
wyth
that
other
/
ffor
alle
way
the
euyll
cometh
to
nought
/
And
contrarye
the
good
goth
alway
growyng
and
in
amendyng
/
And
therfore
ther
is
none
euyl
but
synne
whiche
is
nought
/
For
ye
may
vnderstande
that
it
cometh
to
nought
as
donge
/
The
is
nothyng
that
ought
to
be
made
right
/
But
be
only
this
that
ought
to
be
permanent
/
¶
And
therfor
it
is
good
aman
to
holde
hym
nyghe
the
good
.
For
the
good
amendeth
al
wayes
/
And
who
that
customly
doth
gladly
the
good
werkes
/
they
ben
the
cause
to
lede
hym
to
heuene
/
as
he
that
hath
none
other
wythdraughte
ne
other
dwellyng
place
/
And
therfor
he
muste
enhabyte
there
/
hym
behoueth
to
come
in
to
heuene
for
to
reteyne
there
his
place
/
and
also
for
to
fylle
it
Ther
is
noman
in
the
worlde
that
can
doo
so
moche
good
but
that
he
shal
alway
fynde
his
place
/
and
his
repayre
propyce
after
his
merites
.
ffor
as
moche
as
this
so
moche
noble
a
place
is
withoute
ende
and
wythout
terme
in
suche
wise
that
no
goodes
what
someuer
they
be
shal
neuer
haue
terme
ne
ende
.
ne
neuer
shal
haue
defaulte
.
but
it
is
contynuelly
ful
of
alle
consolacion
/
of
alle
delices
of
alle
goodes
of
alle
Ioye
and
of
alle
gladnesse
/
wythout
hauyng
ony
thynge
voyde
.
Of
whiche
they
that
deserue
it
of
our
lord
shal
haue
ful
possession
of
alle
the
inestimable
goodes
.
¶
Of
helle
I
may
frely
saye
to
you
.
that
ther
is
nothyng
sauf
sorowe
&
martyrdom
/
truly
the
most
anguysshous
the
most
horrible
&
so
moche
sorowful
that
ther
is
no
like
And
yf
so
were
that
the
chyldren
that
haue
ben
syth
.
Adam
were
all
dampned
yet
it
myght
not
be
fylled
by
them
/
though
they
were
twyes
so
many
more
/
&
they
that
be
theryn
perisshed
▪
shal
be
dampned
and
perpetuelly
tormented
.
ffor
after
that
they
be
dampned
they
shal
abyde
euer
as
longe
as
god
shal
be
whiche
is
wythout
begynnyng
and
wythout
endyng
And
there
they
shal
brenne
in
fyre
eternel
withoute
hope
of
alegeaunce
of
ony
mercy
of
ony
hope
to
haue
ony
better
but
alleway
werse
fro
tyme
.
to
tyme
/
as
it
is
so
that
the
saued
sowles
desire
the
day
of
dome
and
of
iugement
for
to
be
gloryfied
in
body
and
sowle
/
The
dampned
sowles
redoubte
and
drede
it
thynkynge
that
after
that
day
they
shal
be
perpetuelly
tormented
in
body
and
in
sowle
.
And
to
that
dredeful
day
they
be
not
tormented
in
the
body
/
but
in
the
sowle
/
¶
And
I
haue
recyted
this
thinge
shortly
to
this
ende
that
it
may
be
knowen
certaynly
that
ther
is
no
good
deede
but
it
shal
be
rewarded
ne
none
euyl
dede
but
that
it
shal
be
punysshed
This
is
the
wille
of
the
creatour
And
maker
of
all
thynges
wythoute
whom
ther
is
none
that
in
ony
maner
hath
ony
power
/
&
heis
so
moche
a
debonayer
lorde
ful
of
souerayn
puissaunce
and
of
grete
and
of
infynyt
goodes
that
ther
is
no
comparyson
to
hym
.
And
he
that
all
thynge
created
/
made
&
establisshid
of
nought
at
his
playsyr
and
wyll
/
But
syth
we
haue
spoken
to
yow
of
the
inestimable
gretenesse
of
the
firmament
wherin
the
sterres
be
sette
whiche
alleway
is
in
moeuyig
/
so
shal
ye
vnderstonde
that
ther
is
an
heuen
aboue
Where
they
that
ben
there
moeue
nothyng
.
but
ben
contynuelly
in
one
estate
.
lyke
as
some
man
remeuyth
hym
from
som
place
to
another
.
the
first
place
meuyd
hym
not
/
But
he
that
shold
goo
so
al
aboute
lyke
rounde
aboute
a
circle
.
shold
ofte
goo
fro
place
to
place
er
he
come
to
his
place
.
and
so
longe
he
myght
goo
that
he
shold
come
right
to
the
place
fro
whens
he
departed
first
/
But
that
place
shold
not
meue
/
but
holde
him
alway
in
a
poynt
.
now
will
ye
thus
vnderstonde
of
this
heuen
/
that
ther
is
no
maner
place
that
is
remeuyd
fro
the
sterres
ne
fro
the
firmament
.
but
they
holde
them
.
also
fermly
all
.
as
they
most
maye
.
this
heuen
muste
be
vnderstonde
by
them
whiche
ben
Astronomyers
.
This
is
that
gyueth
to
vs
his
colour
blew
.
the
whiche
estendeth
aboue
thayer
.
the
whiche
we
see
whan
thayer
is
pure
and
clere
all
aboute
/
And
it
is
of
so
grete
attemperaunce
/
that
it
may
haue
no
violence
.
this
is
the
heuen
that
encloseth
the
firmament
/
Now
I
shal
saye
yow
all
appertly
▪
that
this
that
ye
may
vnderstonde
here
tofore
.
by
heeryng
.
may
not
be
taken
ne
knowen
/
ne
be
proued
yf
it
be
trouthe
or
non
.
ne
may
not
be
by
ony
arte
of
demonstraunce
.
lyke
as
may
be
seen
by
eyen
.
For
the
wytte
of
a
man
hath
not
the
power
.
But
neuertheles
we
shal
saye
to
you
this
that
we
truly
may
fynde
by
wrytyng
in
certayn
places
lyke
as
some
Auncient
philosophers
haue
ymagyned
and
thought
/
of
whiche
they
fonde
certayn
resons
/
¶
Here
after
foloweth
of
the
heuen
crystalyn
and
of
the
heuene
imperyall
/
Capitulo
.
xxij
ABoue
this
heuen
that
we
may
see
blew
as
sayd
is
/
after
that
th auncient
clerkes
saye
/
ther
is
another
heuene
all
rounde
aboute
that
aboue
&
bynethe
/
lyke
as
it
were
of
the
colour
of
whyte
cristall
.
clere
.
pure
.
&
moche
noble
.
&
is
called
the
heuen
crystalyn
.
&
aboue
this
heuen
cristalyn
.
alle
rounde
aboute
that
/
is
an
other
heuen
of
the
colour
of
purple
.
lyke
as
the
deuynes
saye
&
that
is
called
the
heuen
imperyal
/
This
heuene
is
garnysshid
&
ful
of
alle
beaultees
/
more
than
ony
of
the
other
that
we
haue
named
/
&
there
is
thayer
seuen
tymes
more
fayr
&
more
clere
than
is
the
sonne
.
Fro
this
heuen
Imperyall
fylle
the
euyl
angeles
by
their
pryde
that
whiche
were
disgarnysshid
of
all
glorye
&
of
all
goodes
/
And
ther
ben
the
blessyd
Angeles
of
our
lord
/
¶
Here
foloweth
of
the
Celestyall
heuene
.
Capitulo
xxiij
YF
ye
wyl
vnderstande
for
to
knowe
of
this
heuene
celestyall
/
whiche
is
aboue
all
the
other
/
ye
shal
vnderstonde
that
this
place
is
right
worthy
&
blyssyd
in
all
thinges
/
wherfor
ther
may
nothyng
growe
/
but
all
goodenesse
&
swetnesse
by
reson
&
right
/
This
is
the
propre
place
of
the
holy
trynyte
where
as
god
the
fader
sytteth
in
his
right
worthy
mageste
.
but
in
that
place
faylleth
thentendemēt
of
ony
erthely
man
/
for
ther
is
nowher
so
good
a
clercke
that
may
thinke
the
x.
parte
of
the
glorye
that
is
there
/
&
yf
our
lord
pourpryseth
ony
place
/
hym
behoueth
to
haue
that
by
right
/
but
he
is
so
comune
oueral
/
that
he
seeth
euery
man
that
hath
deseruyd
it
ayenst
hym
&
seeth
all
thynges
here
&
there
/
He
seeth
all
aboute
as
he
that
hath
all
thinges
in
his
kepyng
/
of
whiche
ye
may
take
ensample
/
by
some
whan
ye
here
them
speke
/
that
all
they
of
whom
they
here
the
tale
they
here
his
worde
.
many
men
vnderstonde
al
attones
/
&
in
one
tyme
heere
euery
man
hereth
al
the
worde
/
In
lyke
wyse
may
ye
vnderstande
that
god
is
oueral
&
regnyng
oueral
in
euery
place
/
&
is
in
all
places
anon
&
attones
/
And
the
light
&
clerenes
that
groweth
of
him
enlumyneth
all
thinges
bothe
here
&
there
&
also
soone
that
one
as
the
other
example
yf
ye
sette
aboue
many
thynges
a
lyght
.
also
soone
shal
the
resplendour
go
on
the
syde
by
yonde
it
.
as
on
the
syde
on
this
syde
it
.
whan
suche
thinges
haue
lyke
vertue
.
ouer
moche
more
ought
he
to
haue
/
that
al
thynge
made
and
created
.
&
that
all
goodes
hath
wythin
hym
his
heuen
stratched
oueral
as
he
▪
whiche
of
all
is
lord
&
maistre
In
heuen
ben
all
thangeles
all
th
archāgeles
and
all
the
sayntes
whiche
synge
all
to gydre
to
for
god
glorye
&
lawde
wyth
ryght
grete
Ioye
&
consolacion
.
Ther
is
none
that
may
compryse
.
ne
herte
of
man
mortal
may
vnderstande
what
thynge
is
heuene
.
&
how
moche
grete
Ioye
they
haue
to
whom
he
hath
gyuen
&
graunted
it
the
beste
clerk
of
the
world
the
most
subtyl
.
&
the
best
spekyng
wyth
all
that
euer
was
lyuynge
in
erthe
or
euer
shal
be
in
ony
tyme
of
the
world
&
thaugh
he
had
a
thousand
tongues
spekynge
.
and
euerich
of
the
tongues
spack
by
hym self
.
&
also
had
a
thousand
hertes
within
his
body
the
most
subtyle
&
the
most
memoratyf
that
myght
be
taken
&
founden
in
all
the
world
and
best
chosen
to
vnderstande
&
to
exprimente
&
yf
this
myght
be
&
happe
that
all
this
myght
be
to gydre
in
the
body
of
a
man
&
after
myght
thynke
alway
the
best
wyse
that
they
coude
descryue
&
deuyse
thestate
of
heuen
.
And
that
euery
tongue
myght
saye
&
declare
the
intencion
of
euery
herte
.
yet
myght
they
neuer
in
no
maner
of
the
world
saye
ne
recounte
the
thousand
parte
of
the
grete
Ioye
that
the
pourest
&
leest
of
them
that
shal
be
there
shal
haue
.
&
foul
be
he
that
shal
not
be
there
.
ffor
they
that
shal
be
in
heuene
wold
not
be
all
the
dayes
of
the
world
lordes
&
kynges
of
all
the
Monarchye
of
the
worlde
erthly
thaugh
all
their
commandements
myght
be
obserued
&
don
not
for
to
ben
one
only
hour
out
of
heuen
.
ffor
there
is
the
lyf
perdurable
/
&
there
is
the
parfyght
/
&
inestimable
Ioye
that
euer
was
and
euer
shal
be
/
There
in
euery
thynge
is
establysshed
&
●tayn
for
euermore
without
ende
&
wythout
begynnyng
ne
neuer
shal
faille
.
ne
there
shal
neuer
be
ony
doubtannce
of
deth
ne
of
maladye
of
sorow
of
anguysshe
ne
of
drede
of
angre
of
trauayll
of
payne
ne
of
poute
of
caytifnes
ne
of
ony
tribulacion
that
euer
may
happe
in
ony
manere
of
the
world
to
him
that
shal
haue
his
mansyon
in
heuene
.
But
he
shal
be
continuelly
in
Ioye
in
solace
.
in
all
delices
&
in
all
goodes
perdurable
&
without
ende
.
and
he
shal
haue
more
consolacion
than
ony
man
can
thynke
ne
esteme
thaugh
he
employe
all
his
engyen
for
to
vnderstonde
it
.
Now
for
to
knowe
what
it
is
of
heuene
.
&
of
helle
after
our
declaracion
to fore
sayd
/
&
wyth
this
the
firmamente
the
sterres
&
the
seuen
planetes
I
presente
them
to
you
here
on
that
other
syte
.
of
this
leef
by
a
fygure
/
by
whiche
ye
may
moche
prouffyte
.
yf
ye
will
wel
applye
&
employe
therto
your
entendemente
.
Her
foloweth
the
recapitulacion
of
the
thynges
tofore
sayd
Capitulo
.
xxiiij
.
Thus
fynysshith
the
book
called
th
ymage
or
myrrour
of
the
world
the
whiche
in
spekynge
of
god
&
of
his
werkes
in
estimable
hath
bygonne
to
entre
in
mater
spekynge
of
hym
and
of
his
hye
puyssances
and
dominacions
/
and
taketh
here
an
ende
:
ffor
in
alle
begynnynges
and
in
all●
operacions
the
name
of
god
ought
to
be
called
.
As
on
hym
wythout
whom
alle
thynges
ben
nought
/
Thenne
he
so
ottroye
and
graunte
to
vs
so
to
begynne
/
perseuere
.
and
fynysshe
that
we
may
be
brought
and
receyuyd
in
to
his
blessyd
glorye
in
heuene
vnto
the
blessed
Trynyte
/
Fader
/
Sone
/
and
holy
gost
/
Whiche
lyueth
and
regneth
wythout
ende
in
secula
seculorum
Amen
/
ANd
where
it
is
so
.
that
I
haue
presumed
and
emprysed
this
forsayd
translacyon
in
to
our
englisshe
and
maternall
tongue
/
In
whiche
I
am
not
well
parfyght
/
And
yet
lasse
in
frensshe
/
Yet
I
haue
endeuourd
me
therin
/
atte
request
and
desyre
coste
and
dispence
of
the
honourable
and
worshipful
man
/
Hughe
Bryce
Cytezeyn
and
Alderman
of
london
/
Whiche
hath
sayd
to
me
that
he
entendeth
to
presente
it
/
vnto
the
puissaunt
noble
and
vertuous
lorde
My
lorde
hastynges
.
Chamberlayn
vnto
our
souerayn
lord
the
Kynge
/
And
his
lyeutenaunt
of
the
toun
of
Calays
and
marches
there
/
In
whiche
translacion
I
knowleche
my self
symple
/
rude
&
ygnoraunt
/
Wherfore
I
humbly
byseche
my
sayd
lord
Chamberlayn
to
pardonne
me
of
this
rude
&
symple
translacion
.
how
be
it
/
I
l●●e
for
myn
excuse
/
that
I
haue
to
my
power
folowed
my
copye
/
And
as
nygh
as
to
me
is
possible
.
I
haue
made
it
so
playn
that
euery
man
resonable
may
vnderstonde
it
/
Yf
he
aduysedly
and
ententyfly
rede
or
here
it
/
¶
And
yf
ther
be
faulte
in
mesuryng
of
the
firmament
/
Sonne
/
Mone
/
or
of
th
erthe
.
or
in
ony
other
meruaylles
herin
conteyned
I
beseche
you
not
tarette
the
faulte
in
me
but
in
hym
that
made
my
copye
.
whiche
bock
I
began
first
to
translate
the
second
day
of
Ianyuer
the
yere
of
our
lord
/
M.
CCCC.●xxx
.
And
fynysshyd
the
viij
day
of
Marche
the
same
yere
/
And
the
xxj
yere
of
the
Regne
of
the
most
Crysten
kynge
.
Kynge
Edward
the
fourthe
.
Vnder
the
shadowe
of
whos
noble
proteccion
I
haue
emprysed
and
fynysshed
this
sayd
lytyl
werke
and
boke
.
Besechynge
Almyghty
god
to
be
his
protectour
and
defendour
agayn
alle
his
Enemyes
and
gyue
hym
grace
to
sudue
them
/
And
inespeciall
them
that
haue
late
enterprysed
agayn
ryght
&
reson
to
make
warre
wythin
his
Royamme
.
And
also
to
preserue
and
mayntene
him
in
longe
lyf
and
prosperous
helthe
.
And
after
this
short
and
transytorye
lyf
he
brynge
hym
and
vs
in
to
his
celestyall
blysse
in
heuene
AMEN
/
¶
Caxton
me
fieri
fecit
.