Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury TalesChaucer, Geoffrey
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Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales
Chaucer, Geoffrey
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500
First wite thou certeinly, how that haven stondeth, that thou
list to werke for; that is to say in whiche place of the firmament
the mone being, maketh fulle see. Than awayte thou redily in
what degree of the zodiak that the mone at that tyme is inne.
Bringe furth than the labelle, and set the point therof in that 5
same cost that the mone maketh flode, and set thou there the
degree of the mone according with the egge of the label. Than
afterward awayte where is than the degree of the sonne, at that
tyme. Remeve thou than the label fro the mone, and bringe and
sette it iustly upon the degree of the sonne. And the point of 10
the label shal than declare to thee, at what houre of the day or of
the night shal be flode. And there also maist thou wite by the
same point of the label, whether it be, at that same tyme, flode or
ebbe, or half flode, or quarter flode, or ebbe, or half or quarter
ebbe; or ellis at what houre it was last, or shal be next by night or 15
by day, thou than shalt esely knowe, &c. Furthermore, if it so be
that thou happe to worke for this matere aboute the tyme of the
coniunccioun, bringe furthe the degree of the mone with the
labelle to that coste as it is before seyd. But than thou shalt
understonde that thou may not bringe furthe the label fro the 20
degree of the mone as thou dide before; for-why the sonne is
than in the same degree with the mone. And so thou may at that
tyme by the point of the labelle unremeved knowe the houre of
the flode or of the ebbe, as it is before seyd, &c. And evermore
as thou findest the mone passe fro the sonne, so remeve thou the 25
labelle than fro the degree of the mone, and bringe it to the
degree of the sonne. And worke thou than as thou dide before,
&c. Or elles knowe thou what houre it is that thou art inne, by
thyn instrument. Than bringe thou furth fro thennes the labelle
and ley it upon the degree of the mone, and therby may thou wite 30
also whan it was flode, or whan it wol be next, be it night or
day; &c.
[_The following sections are spurious; they are numbered so as to shew
what propositions they repeat._]
41_a_. UMBRA RECTA.
Yif thy rewle falle upon the 8 poynt on right schadwe, than make
thy figure of 8; than loke how moche space of feet is be-tween thee
and the tour, and multiplye that be 12, and whan thou hast multiplied
it, than divyde it be the same nombre of 8, and kepe the residue; and
adde therto up to thyn eye to the residue, and that shal be the verry 5
heyght of the tour. And thus mayst thou werke on the same wyse, fro
1 to 12.
41_b_. UMBRA RECTA.
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