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The Sailor's Word-Book

[Hamal].


The star in Aries whence the first mansion of the moon takes its name. The Frankeleine in Chaucer says:

"And by his eighte speres in his werking,

He knew ful wel how far Alnath was shove

Fro the hed of thilke fix Aries above,

That in the ninthe spere considered is."