In the preceding chapter is shown after what manner the Sun travels round the Earth; so that now one can proceed to demonstrate the meaning of the part to which this thought belongs.

I say, then, that in that first part I begin to praise that Lady by comparison with other things.

And I say that the Sun, circling round the Earth, sees nothing so gentle as that Lady; wherefore it follows that she is, according to the letter, the most gentle of all things that the sun shines upon.

And it says: "Till the hour;" wherefore it is to be known that "hour" is understood in two ways by the Astrologers.

The one is, that of the day and of the night they make twenty-four hours--twelve of the day, twelve of the night, however long or short the day may be.
And these hours are short and long in the day and night according as the day and night increase and diminish.