Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's "De Consolatione Philosophiæ.": Ed. from the Additional Ms. 10,340 in the British Museum. Collated with Cambridge Univ. Libr. Ms. Ii. 3. 21

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الصفحة xx - Philosophy ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit, from the barbarism of the times, and the situation of the author.
الصفحة i - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
الصفحة i - ... outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, . Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against...
الصفحة xviii - The church was edified by his profound defence of the orthodox creed against the Arian, the Eutychian, and the Nestorian heresies ; and the Catholic unity was explained or exposed in a formal treatise by the indifference of three distinct though consubstantial persons. For the benefit of his Latin readers, his genius submitted to teach the first elements of the arts and sciences of Greece. The geometry of Euclid, the music of Pythagoras, the arithmetic of Nicomachus, the mechanics of Archimedes,...
الصفحة vi - ... perfecti imperfectum esse perhibetur. Quo fit, ut, si in quolibet genere imperfectum quid esse videatur, in eo perfectum quoque aliquid esse necesse sit ; etenim perfectione sublata, unde illud, quod imperfectum perhibetur, exstiterit, ne fingí | quidem potest. Ñeque enim ab demi- p. nutis inconsummatisque natura rerum cepit exordium, sed ab integris absolutisque procedens in haec extrema atque effeta dilabitur.
الصفحة iv - That, that the se, that gredy is to flowen, Constreyneth to a certeyn ende so Hise flodes, that so fiersly they ne growen To drenchen erth and al for evermo ; And if that Love aught lete his brydel go, Al that now loveth asonder sholde lepe, And lost were al that Love halt now to hepe*.
الصفحة iii - The firste moevere of the cause above Whan he first made the faire cheyne of love, Greet was theffect, and heigh was his entente; Wel wiste he, why, and what therof he mente, For with that faire cheyne of love he bond The fyr, the eyr, the water, and the lond, In certeyn boundes that they may nat flee. That same prince and that same moevere...
الصفحة x - The worste kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren whan it passed is.
الصفحة xi - With what wight so thow be, or how thow pleye, Either he woot that thow, joie, art muable, Or woot it nought; it mot ben oon of tweye. Now if he woot it nought, how may he seye That he hath verray joie and selynesse, That is of ignoraunce ay in derknesse?

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