
...alternating rows of six and five stars each--was chosen and remains in use nationwide to this day. He received a B- for his work.
...but by the mid 1600s it was being used to refer to solar eclipses, with the English clergy and scholar John Spenser writing about 'a strange deliquium of light in the sun' as early as 1663.
(Continued)...Ultimately, in Lydgate's eyes, London was a city that essentially 'licks up' all your pennies until you are left with none.