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Boethius: De Consolatione Philosophiae
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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
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lat 524 A.D. III,2c,27-30
Validis quondam viribus acta
Pronum flectit virga cacumen;
Hanc si curvans dextra remisit,
Recto spectat vertice caelum.
ger Notker ca. 950-1022 A.D.
24. ITEM.
Ualidis quondam uiribus acta uirga . flectit pronum cacumen.
Tes iúngen bóumes óbenáhtigi . uuírt óuh uuîlôn mít nôte níder-gezógen.
Si hanc curuans dextra remisit . recto uertice spectat celum.
Uuírt er ferlâzen . ér ríhtet síh áber ûf ze hímile.
(fra Simon de Freine ca. 1189-1200) fra Jean de Meun ca. 1300
La verge d’un arbre, courvee par grant force, flechist le sommet de li enclin vers terre ; mais se la main qui la courva la relaisse aler, elle regarde le ciel par teste dreciee.
eng Chaucer 1343-1400 A.D.
The yerde of a tree, that is haled a-doun by mighty strengthe, boweth redily the crop a-doun: but yif that the hand of him that it bente lat it gon ayein, anon the crop loketh up-right to hevene.
eng Elizabeth 1593 A.D. p. 47, 27-30
Bowing plies her top :
the same if bending hand do slack,
The top vpright doth turne.
The Son to Hesperius waters falz,
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