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mouvement. Car leau qui court roidement eschauf
fe moins que celle qui se tient coye. Aussi fait lair
qui est en hault. Et par che y naist la froidure. qui
engelle celle moisteur tantost comme elle y est mon
tee et chiet toute engelle aval. Des gellees et des tem
PAr autelle maniere reviennent pestes
en leste les grans greilles et les grans
tempestes. Car en lair naissent aucu
nement dont il naist bien souvent grant froidure
Si que la moisteur qui en lair est nee se trait a gel
lee et assamble en lair et amasse pour la chaleur
qui lachasse apres. Et le soleil qui de pres la serre
et endurcist et chiet a terre. mais elle ne cheit pas
si grosse a terre comme elle naist en hault/. Car elle
vient en bas derompant et amenuisant au cheoir
Et cest la tempeste qui chet toute engelle aval. des
EN lair esclistres ou espars et tonnoires
adviennent moult de choses dont les gens
ne parlent gaires. Car ils n'ont cure
de telles choses dont ilz ne sceuent a chief venir Che
qui fait la terre crosler et qui fait tonner les nues

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to move. For water that runs swiftly heats
up less than water that keeps still. And the
same is true for the air in the sky. From it comes the cold,
which freezes moisture as soon as it rises up, and
then it falls down again in frozen form. [rubric:] Of hail and
In the same way, great / tempests [/rubric]
hailstorms and tempests come in the summer.
For sometimes they are created in the air, for
great cold often comes about there, such that the moisture
that is born in the air becomes frozen and congealed,
amassed by the heat that has chased it there.
Then the sun holds it close and hardens it, so that
it falls to the earth. But not as much falls to the earth
as is created above, for as it falls it breaks apart and
loses its force. This is the tempest, in which all the
hail falls downwards. [rubric:] Of lightning, or light flashes, and thunder [/rubric]
Many things come to pass in the air that people rarely
speak of. For they do not care about
things they know little about. That which
makes the earth quake and the clouds thunder

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mouvement. Car leau qui court roidement eschauf
fe moins que celle qui se tient coye. Aussi fait lair
qui est en hault. Et par che y naist la froidure. qui
engelle celle moisteur tantost comme elle y est mon
tee et chiet toute engelle aval. Des gellees et des tem
PAr autelle maniere reviennent pestes
en leste les grans greilles et les grans
tempestes. Car en lair naissent aucu
nement dont il naist bien souvent grant froidure
Si que la moisteur qui en lair est nee se trait a gel
lee et assamble en lair et amasse pour la chaleur
qui lachasse apres. Et le soleil qui de pres la serre
et endurcist et chiet a terre. mais elle ne cheit pas
si grosse a terre comme elle naist en hault/. Car elle
vient en bas derompant et amenuisant au cheoir
Et cest la tempeste qui chet toute engelle aval. des
EN lair esclistres ou espars et tonnoires
adviennent moult de choses dont les gens
ne parlent gaires. Car ils n'ont cure
de telles choses dont ilz ne sceuent a chief venir Che
qui fait la terre crosler et qui fait tonner les nues

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to move. For water that runs swiftly heats
up less than water that keeps still. And the
same is true for the air in the sky. From it comes cold,
which freezes moisture as soon as it rises up, and
then it falls down again in frozen form. [rubric:] Of hail and
In the same way, great / tempests [/rubric]
great hailstorms and tempests come in the summer.
For sometimes they are created in the air, for
great cold often comes about there, such that the moisture
that is born in the air becomes frozen and congealed,
amassed by the heat that has chased it there.
Then the sun holds it close and hardens it, so that
it falls to the earth. But not as much falls to the earth
as is created above, for as it falls it breaks apart and
loses its force. This is the tempest, in which all the
hail falls. [rubric:] of lightning, or light flashes, and thunder [/rubric]
Many things come to pass in the air that people rarely
talk about. For they do not think about
things they know little about. That thing
what makes the earth quake and the clouds thunder