'No, helpe me god so wis!'-- 700 Quod I. 'No? why?' quod he. 'For hit Were impossible, to my wit, Though that Fame hadde al the pyes In al a realme, and al the spyes, How that yet she shulde here al this, 705 Or they espye hit.' 'O yis, yis!' Quod he to me, 'that can I preve By resoun, worthy for to leve, (200) So that thou yeve thyn advertence To understonde my sentence. 710 'First shall thou heren wher she dwelleth, And so thyn owne book hit telleth; Hir paleys stant, as I shal seye, Right even in middes of the weye Betwixen hevene, erthe, and see; 715 That, what-so-ever in al these three Is spoken, in privee or aperte, The wey therto is so overte, (210) And stant eek in so Iuste a place, That every soun mot to hit pace, 720 Or what so comth fro any tonge, Be hit rouned, red, or songe, Or spoke in seurtee or drede, Certein, hit moste thider nede. 'Now herkne wel; for-why I wille 735 Tellen thee a propre skile, And worthy demonstracioun In myn imagynacioun. (220) 'Geffrey, thou wost right wel this, That every kindly thing that is, 730 Hath a kindly stede ther he May best in hit conserved be; Unto which place every thing, Through his kindly enclyning, Moveth for to come to, 735 Whan that hit is awey therfro; As thus; lo, thou mayst al day see That any thing that hevy be, (230) As stoon or leed, or thing of wighte, And ber hit never so hye on highte, 740 Lat go thyn hand, hit falleth doun. 'Right so seye I by fyre or soun, Or smoke, or other thinges lighte, Alwey they seke upward on highte; Whyl ech of hem is at his large, 745 Light thing up, and dounward charge. 'And for this cause mayst thou see, That every river to the see (240) Enclyned is to go, by kinde. And by these skilles, as I finde, 750 Hath fish dwellinge in floode and see, And treës eek in erthe be. Thus every thing, by this resoun, Hath his propre mansioun, To which hit seketh to repaire, 755 As ther hit shulde not apaire. Lo, this sentence is knowen couthe Of every philosophres mouthe, (250) As Aristotle and dan Platon, And other clerkes many oon; 760 And to confirme my resoun, Thou wost wel this, that speche is soun,