Quo volucrum cantus gaudet de floribus ortis.] The thridde signe is Gemini, Which is figured redely Lich to tuo twinnes of mankinde,[1013] That naked stonde; and as I finde, Thei be with Sterres wel bego: The heved hath part of thilke tuo That schyne upon the boles tail, So be thei bothe of o parail; But on the wombe of Gemini Ben fyve sterres noght forthi, 1040 And ek upon the feet be tweie, So as these olde bokes seie, That wise Tholomeüs wrot. His propre Monthe wel I wot[1014] Assigned is the lusti Maii, Whanne every brid upon his lay [Sidenote: =P. iii. 120=] Among the griene leves singeth, And love of his pointure stingeth After the lawes of nature The youthe of every creature. 1050 [Sidenote: Quartum Signum Cancer dicitur, cuius Mensis Iunius est. Quo falcat pratis pabula tonsor equis.] Cancer after the reule and space Of Signes halt the ferthe place. Like to the crabbe he hath semblance, And hath unto his retienance Sextiene sterres, wherof ten, So as these olde wise men Descrive, he berth on him tofore, And in the middel tuo be bore,[1015] And foure he hath upon his ende. Thus goth he sterred in his kende, 1060 And of himself is moiste and cold, And is the propre hous and hold Which appartieneth to the Mone, And doth what longeth him to done. The Monthe of Juin unto this Signe Thou schalt after the reule assigne. [Sidenote: Quintum signum Leo dicitur, cuius Mensis Iulius est. Quo magis ad terras expandit Lucifer ignes.] The fifte Signe is Leo hote, Whos kinde is schape dreie and hote, In whom the Sonne hath herbergage. And the semblance of his ymage 1070 Is a leoun, which in baillie Of sterres hath his pourpartie: The foure, which as Cancer hath Upon his ende, Leo tath [Sidenote: =P. iii. 121=] Upon his heved, and thanne nest He hath ek foure upon his brest, And on upon his tail behinde, In olde bokes as we finde. His propre Monthe is Juyl be name,[1016] In which men pleien many a game. 1080 [Sidenote: Sextum Signum Virgo dicitur, cuius Mensis Augustus est.