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 as alluded to by Chaucer. "Euerich of thise 12 signes hath respecte to a certein parcelle of the body of a man and hath in it gouernance; as aries hath thin heued, & taurus thy nekke & thy throte, gemyni thyn armholes and thin armes, & so forth;" On the Astrolabie, ed. Skeat, pt. i sect. 21, l. 48. And see Additional Notes to the same, p. 79; and Plate VII, fig. 19. The following passage from Gower's Confessio Amantis, bk. v, is so precisely to the point here that I quote it entire for the reader's convenience.