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if there were no other stars, its [the sun's] powers would
manifest differently. For all the years would resemble each other, and
each one would be the same as the one before it. And the months
would resemble each other, just as each one arrives: January
like every other January, and February like every other
February, and the other ten months in the same way.
For the sun travels the same way in this month as it
will in the same month next year, when it is near it, and this day would
resemble the same day a year from now
in every respect, which is to say in heat,
cold, fine weather, and rain. And each of the others
would be the same every year, for the whole year long.
So it would be correct by nature that in all the summers and
all the winters that there might ever be, there never could
nor would be any difference. And equally, the harvests
of weather would always be the same, for they
would always be dear or cheap. Everything would
be like those things that are always led, warmed, and
government by the sun. For it always travels its course
equally and perfectly every year and holds its right path in a state like

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Marie Richards

original ms. Folio 99v
Walters ms. Folio 104v
BL Royal MS 19 A IX fols 116r-v.
Caxton, ed. Prior, p. 147
Gossuin, ed. Prior, 175-176

Marie Richards

Line 8-9: "quant il en es pres." Caxton left this out. Not sure what do to with the "en."