For myself, I can say that this word "alway" was, from the first, the great difficulty with me--and the more I became convinced of the studied meaning with which Chaucer chose his other expressions, the less satisfied I was with this; and the more convinced I felt that the whole line had been corrupted. In advocating the restoration of the reading which I have already suggested as the original meaning of Chaucer, I shall begin by establishing the _probability_ of his having intended to mark the moon's place by associating her rising with that of a known fixed star--a method of noting phenomena frequently resorted to in ancient astronomy. For that purpose I shall point out another instance wherein Chaucer evidently intended an application of the same method for the purpose of indicating a particular position of the heavens; but first it must noted, that in alluding to the Zodiac, he always refers _to the signs_, never to the constellations--in fact, he does not appear to recognise the latter at all! Thus, in that palpable allusion to the precession of the equinoxes, in the Frankeleine's Tale-- "He knew ful wel how fer Alnath was shove From the hed of thilke fixe Aries above:" --by _the hed of Aries_, Chaucer did not mean the os frontis of the Ram, whereon Alnath still shines conspicuously, but the equinoctial point, from which Alnath _was shove_ by the extent of a whole sign. This being premised, I return to the indication of a point in the ecliptic by the coincident rising of a star; and I contend that such was plainly Chaucer's intention in those lines of the Squire's Tale wherein King Cambuscan is described as rising from the feast:-- "Phebus hath left the angle meridional, And yet ascending was the beste real, The gentle Leon, _with his Aldryan_." Which means that _the sign_ Leo was then in the horizon--the precise degree being marked by the coincident rising of the star Aldryan. Speght's explanation of "Aldryan," in which he has been copied by Urry and Tyrwhitt, is--"a star in the neck of the Lion." What particular star he may have meant by this, does not appear; nor am I at present within reach of probable sources wherein his authority, if he had any, might be searched for and examined; but I have learned to feel such confidence in Chaucer's significance of description, that I have no hesitation in assuming, until authority for a contrary inference shall be produced, that by the star "Aldryan" he meant REGULUS, not the neck, but the heart, of the Lion-- 1st. Because it is the most remarkable star in the sign Leo. 2nd. Because it was, in Chaucer's time, as it now is, nearly upon the line of the ecliptic. 3rd. Because its situation in longitude, about two-thirds in the sign Leo, just tallies with Chaucer's expression "_yet_ ascending,"--that is, one-third of the sign was still below the horizon.