Of foure tymes of the yere. Cam. 42m.
hEre mayst thou see the foure tymes of the yere, and her foure qualitees, and her prosperite and difference, and contrarietees. The foure tymes of the yere are devidid thus. In ver, In somer, In hervest, and in wyntir. Ver bigynneth whan þe sonne entrith into the signe of þe Ram, and dewrith foure skore dayes and xiij, and xviij howres, and the fourthe part of an houre, that is, from the xiij day of marche vnto the xiij daye of Iune. In veer the tyme is so hote, þe wyndis risen, [folio 18a] the snowe meltith. Ryvers aforsen hem to renne and wexen hoote, the humydite of the erthe mountith into the croppe of alle growyng thingis, and makith trees and herbes to leve and flowre, þe medis wexen grene, the sedis risen, and cornes wexen, and flouris taken coloure; fowlis clothen them alle newe and bigynne to synge, trees are fulle of leves and floures, and the erthe alle grene; bestis engendre, and alle thingis take myght, the lond is in beute clad with flouris of diuerse coloures, and alle growyng thingis are than in her bewte.