And for their diverse dispositión, Each falls in other’s exaltatión. 1988 As thus, God wot, Mercúry is desolate In Pisces, where Venus is exaltáte, And Venus falls where Mercury is raised. Therefore no woman by no clerk is praised. The clerk, when he is old, and may not do Of Venus’ works not worth his oldë shoe, Then sits he down, and writes in his dotage, That women cannot keep their marriáge. But now to purpose, why I toldë thee That I was beaten for a book, pardie.