Footnote 27
Part II, §1.  See fig. 1.  Any straight edge laid across from the centre will shew this at once.  Chaucer, reckoning by the old style, differs from us by about eight days.  The first degree of Aries, which in his time answered to the 12th of March, now vibrates between the 20th and the 21st of that month.  This difference of eight days must be carefully borne in mind in calculating Chaucer's dates.