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Marie Richards at Jan 19, 2023 04:04 PM

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C.xix.

quil ya dichy jusques au ciel ou les estoiles sont. Se
le premiere homme que dieu fourma oncques che fut
Adam y fut premierement ale des lors que de dieu fut
premierement fait et cree. et fut ale vingt miles par
chascun jour si ne fut il pas ancores la ains eult il
ancores a aler lespace de sept cens et trese ans des a
dont que Adam le premier homme fut fourme quant
premierement fut parfait cestui par le vray acteur
Che fut a laparition en lan de grace mil deux cens
quarante et six. Autant il feist meist il a y aler des
lors ainchois que il fut jusques la. Ou se la avoit
une grant pierre qui cent ans a cheoir meist il con
vendroit quelle fust avalee en chascune heure du jour
dont il ya vingt quatre en ung jour complet quarante
mile et trese et une demie ainchois quelle venist jus
ques a terre. Ceste chose fu prouvee par celui qui che
present volume compila ainchois quelle venist jusques
ychi. Cest bien autant par quarante foiz comme ung
cheval pourroit aler qui tousjours yroit sans soy
arrester Ores qui voeult si porra entendre se une
pierre pourroit autant devaler en une heure comme


Translation

119

to have gone from here to the sky where the stars are.
IF the first man whom God created -- that was Adam --
had first started going there when God first
made and created him, and if he went twenty miles a day,
he would not still not have arrived. He would still have
seven hundred and thirteen years to go, from the time
when Adam the first man was first made, to when this
book was made by its true author, which first appeared
in the Year of Grace 1246. Thus, he would have longer
to go that he had already gotten to so far. Or if there
were a large stone, it would need a hundred years to fall
until it reached the earth,
even if it continued to fall during every hour of the day - of
which there are twenty four in a full day - or forty plus
thirteen and a half (53 1/2) miles [per day] (see note).
this matter was proven by the person who compiled
the present volume, as he came to this point in his work.
It is forty times as much as a horse could run if it
ran constantly without stopping. Now whoever wishes
to understand this can do so by thinking of how far a stone
can fall in an hour.

Page 255

C.xix.

quil ya dichy jusques au ciel ou les estoiles sont. Se
le premiere homme que dieu fourma oncques che fut
Adam y fut premierement ale des lors que de dieu fut
premierement fait et cree. et fut ale vingt miles par
chascun jour si ne fut il pas ancores la ains eult il
ancores a aler lespace de sept cens et trese ans des a
dont que Adam le premier homme fut fourme quant
premierement fut parfait cestui par le vray acteur
Che fut a laparition en lan de grace mil deux cens
quarante et six. Autant il feist meist il a y aler des
lors ainchois que il fut jusques la. Ou se la avoit
une grant pierre qui cent ans a cheoir meist il con
vendroit quelle fust avalee en chascune heure du jour
dont il ya vingt quatre en ung jour complet quarante
mile et trese et une demie ainchois quelle venist jus
ques a terre. Ceste chose fu prouvee par celui qui che
present volume compila ainchois quelle venist jusques
ychi. Cest bien autant par quarante foiz comme ung
cheval pourroit aler qui tousjours yroit sans soy
arrester Ores qui voeult si porra entendre se une
pierre pourroit autant devaler en une heure comme


Translation

119

to have gone from here to the sky where the stars are.
IF the first man whom God created, that was Adam,
had ever gone there first, when God first
made and created him, and if he went twenty miles a day,
he would not still not have arrived, and he would still have
seven hundred and thirteen years to go, from the time
when Adam the first man was first made, to when this
book was made by its true author, which first appeared
in the Year of Grace 1246. Thus, he would have longer
to go that he had already gone to that point. Or if there
were a large stone, it would need a hundred years to fall
until it reached the earth,
even if it continued to fall during every hour of the day - of
which there are twenty four in a full day - or forty plus
thirteen and a half (53 1/2) miles [per day] (see note).
this matter was proven by the person who compiled
the present volume, as he came to this point in his work.
It is forty times as much as a horse could run if it
ran constantly without stopping. Now whoever wishes
to understand this can do so by thinking of how far a stone
can fall in an hour.