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on que se aultre estoille navoit ses povoirs aultrement
yroit. Car tous les ans sentreressambleroient et seroit
chascun tel comme il fut devant. Et les mois sentreres
sambleroient pareillement chascun ainsi comme ilz
vendroient. janvier comme ung aultre janvier. et
fevrier comme ung aultre fevrier et les aultres dix
mois pareillement. Car le soleil va tout ainsi en ung
mois comme il fait en celui mois meismes quant
il en est pres. et le jourdhuy ressambleroit celui dhuy
en ung an en tous endrois. Cest assavoir de chault
de froid de beau temps et de pluie. et les aultres selon
leur venne chascun an sicomme lan dure. Si conven
droit par droitte nature que tous les estez et tous les
yvers qui oncques auroient este ne qui jamais pour
roient estre navendroient nulles diversitez. Et de
tous les temps ravendroit il pareillement. Car ilz
seroient tous chiers ou tous vilz. Tous seroient ades
paraulx comme ceulx qui par le soleil seroient tousjours
demenez et eschauffez et continuellement gouvernez.
Car il va egalement tousjours et parfait son cours
chascun an et tient sa droitte voie en ung estat comme

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

on que se aultre estoille navoit ses povoirs aultrement
yroit. Car tous les ans sentreressambleroient et seroit
chascun tel comme il fut devant. Et les mois sentreres
sambleroient pareillement chascun ainsi comme ilz
vendroient. janvier comme ung aultre janvier. et
fevrier comme ung aultre fevrier et les aultres dix
mois pareillement. Car le soleil va tout ainsi en ung
mois comme il fait en celui mois meismes quant
il en est pres. et le jourdhuy ressambleroit celui dhuy
en ung an en tous endrois. Cest assavoir de chault
de froid de beau temps et de pluie. et les aultres selon
leur venne chascun an sicomme lan dure. Si conven
droit par droitte nature que tous les estez et tous les
yvers qui oncques auroient este ne qui jamais pour
roient estre navendroient nulles diversitez. Et de
tous les temps ravendroit il pareillement. Car ilz
seroient tous chiers ou tous vilz. Tous seroient ades
paraulx comme ceulx qui par le soleil seroient tousjours
demenez et eschauffez et continuellement gouvernez.
Car il va egalement tousjours et parfait son cours
chascun an et tient sa droitte voie en ung estat comme

if another star had these powers, things would
go 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 by right 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