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Click to Expand/Collapse OptionPreface
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionBook I: THE SORROWS OF BOETHIUS
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionBook II: THE VANITY OF FORTUNE’S GIFTS
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionBook III: TRUE HAPPINESS AND FALSE
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionBook IV: GOOD AND ILL FORTUNE
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionBook V: FREE WILL AND GOD’S FOREKNOWLEDGE
lat 524 A.D. II,6p
Atqui nec opes inexpletam restinguere avaritiam queunt nec potestas sui compotem fecerit quem vitiosae libidines insolubilibus adstrictum retinent catenis,
ger Notker ca. 950-1022 A.D.
Atqui . nec opes queunt restinguere . inexpletam auaritiam. Tríuuo . ze déro uuîs . sô fortitudo mánne benímet ignauiam . sô nemúgen nîeht opes mánne benémen sîna míchelûn fréchi. Nec potestas fecerit sui compotem . quem uitiose libidines retinent astrictum . insolubilibus catenis. Nóh keuuált netûot tén sîn sélbes keuuáltîgen . tén sîne scádoháften gelúste bíndent . mít stárchên chétennôn.
(fra Simon de Freine ca. 1189-1200) fra Jean de Meun ca. 1300
Mais certes ne richeces ne peuent pas restraindre l’avarice des hommes qui ne puet estre saoulee ; ne puissance ne fera pas que cil soit puissans de bien ordenner soi meismes que mauvaisez volentéz et eharniex couvoitisez retiennent estraint par chaenes qui ne peuent estre desliees.
eng Chaucer 1343-1400 A.D.
But certes, richesse may not restreyne avarice unstaunched; ne power ne maketh nat a man mighty over him-self, whiche that vicious lustes holden destreyned with cheynes that ne mowen nat be unbounden.
eng Elizabeth 1593 A.D. p.36, 46-48
nether can riches vnsaciable auarice refrayne, nor makes not free his own, whom vitious lust with vnbroke chaynes, holdes bound:
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