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celui qui ne se desvoie point. Aussi il est le droit voille
et patron de toutes les aultres estoilles. Car cest la plus
fine de toutes les aultres par la grant clarte qui est en
lui. Et toutes choses naissent par lui et plus a en ter
re de povoir des choses dont len poeut enquerre natu
re et raison et droit que nulles des aultures estoilles
Car aulcuneffoiz lui restrainguent ses caleurs et puis
lui relargissent selon che quelles sont loings ou pres
si ont aulcuneffoiz besoing aussi comme lun voit dun
roy qui est plus grant seigneur et plus puissant endroit
soy pour sa haultesse que nulz aultres de ses gens tou
teffoiz ilz lui ont souvent mestier comme ceulx qui
aidier et servir le doivent. Car tant comme plus est
pres de ses gens tant est il plus fort et plus puissant
Et de tant comme plus seslonge de ses gens tant ex
ploitte il moins de sa besognue. Pareillement vous
dy je du soleil qui est sicomme vous avez peu enten
dre le plus grant le plus puissant et le pus vertueux
dont il a plus grant povoir en terre que nulle aultre
estoille ne poeut avoir Mais les aultres y ont leur
povoir chascune en son degre. mais puis que nous

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something that never goes off course. For it is the rightful watchman
and patron of all the other stars, since it is the finest
of all of them due to the great brightness that is in it.
And all things are engendered from it, and it has more power
over things than any of the other stars does, as one can investigate
through nature, reason, and right. But sometimes they (the stars)
restrain its heat or expand it, depending on whether they are
far or near, if they at times need to, as one sees done by a
king who is a great lord and the greatest in a place, being of
a highness that no one else of his people has, yet still
his people often hold office for him as those who should
help and serve. For the more he is accompanied by his men,
the stronger and more powerful he is. And the further he
is from his men, the less he is able to fulfil his duty.
It is the same, I tell you, with the sun, which as you have been
able to hear is the greatest, the most powerful, and the most virtuous,
having more power on earth than any other star could have. But
the others all have their own power,
each in its own degree. But since we

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celui qui ne se desvoie point. Aussi il est le droit voille
et patron de toutes les aultres estoilles. Car cest la plus
fine de toutes les aultres par la grant clarte qui est en
lui. Et toutes choses naissent par lui et plus a en ter
re de povoir des choses dont len poeut enquerre natu
re et raison et droit que nulles des aultures estoilles
Car aulcuneffoiz lui restrainguent ses caleurs et puis
lui relargissent selon che quelles sont loings ou pres
si ont aulcuneffoiz besoing aussi comme lun voit dun
roy qui est plus grant seigneur et plus puissant endroit
soy pour sa haultesse que nulz aultres de ses gens tou
teffoiz ilz lui ont souvent mestier comme ceulx qui
aidier et servir le doivent. Car tant comme plus est
pres de ses gens tant est il plus fort et plus puissant
Et de tant comme plus seslonge de ses gens tant ex
ploitte il moins de sa besognue. Pareillement vous
dy je du soleil qui est sicomme vous avez peu enten
dre le plus grant le plus puissant et le pus vertueux
dont il a plus grant povoir en terre que nulle aultre
estoille ne poeut avoir Mais les aultres y ont leur
povoir chascune en son degre. mais puis que nous

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something that never goes off course. For it is the rightful watchman
and patron of all the other stars, since it is the finest
of all of them due to the great brightness that is in it.
And all things are engendered from it, and it has more power
over things than any of the other stars does, as one can investigate
through nature, reason, and right. But sometimes they (the stars)
restrain its heat or expand them, depending on whether they are
far or near, if they at times need to, as one sees done by a
king who is a great lord and the greatest in a place, being of
a highness that no one else of his people has, yet still
they often hold office for him as those who should
help and serve. For the more he is accompanied by his men,
the stronger and more powerful he is. And the further he
is from his men, the less he is able to fulfil his duty.
It is the same, I tell you, with the, which as you have been
able to hear is the greatest, the most powerful, and the most virtuous,
having more power on earth than any other star could have.But
the others all have their own power,
each in its own degree. But since we