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But nowe sadde winter welked hath the day,
And Phoebus, weary of his yerely taske,
Ystabled hath his steeds in lowly laye,
And taken up his ynne in Fishes haske.

— Edmund Spenser

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Source: Shepheardes Calender, as quoted in Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-names and their meanings (1899: G. E. Stechert), oclc 1285139, p. 341
Source quality: Secondhand citation Quoted from another book or article rather than from the original.

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