¶ Fyfthly of the gentyll Planet Venus.
VEnus the gentyll planet reyg∣neth next after the son̄e / and is a planet femynyne / and is a la∣dy ouer all louers / this planet is moyste and colde of nature / and her two sygnes ben Taurus and Libra and in them she hathe all her Ioye and plea∣saunce / she causeth Ioye / & specyally amōge yonge folke / for greatly she reygneth on them and on all men that ben Ialous / and womē also / for Ialousy is but a loue inordynat / as whan a man or a woman loueth more fer∣uently than they shuld: for suche wolde neuer be from the syght of theyr louers: for if they be anone they suspecte them and drede for fere to be begyled. For there is no man that loueth a woman by carnall affeccion / but it is by the influence of Venus / and but fewe men can