If thou will demen in thy pure thought the rightes or the lawes of the high thunderer, 
look thou and behold the heightes of the sovereign heaven.
There kepen the stars, by rightful alliance of thinges, their old peace. 
The sun, ymoved by his ruddy fire, disturbeth not the cold circle of the moon. 
Nor the star called the Bear, that enclyneth his ravishing courses abouten the
sovereign height of the worlde, nor the same star Ursa is nevermore washen in
the deep western sea.

And Hesperus the star bodeth and telleth the late nightes; 
and Lucifer the star bringeth again in the clear day.
And thus maketh Love interchangeable the perdurable courses; 
and thus is discordable battle put out of the country of the stars.

This accordance atempreth by evenlike manners the elements, 
that the moist things striving with the dry things even place by seasons; 
and the cold things joineth them by faith to the hot thinges; 
and that the light fire ariseth into height; 
and the heavy earthes sink down by their weightes. 
The floury year yieldeth sweet smeles in the first summer season warming; 
and the hat summer drieth the cornes; and autumn cometh again, 
heavy with apples, and the fleeting rain bedeweth the winter.
This atemprance rourisheth and bringeth forth all thing that breatheth
life on this world; and thilke same atemprance, ravishing, 
hideth and taketh away and drencheth, under the last death, al thinges yborn. 
This is the commune of Love to all thinges; 
and all thinges ask to be beholden by the force of good. 
For else they might not lasten; if that they come not again soon after, 
by Love returned, to the cause that hath given them being.