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Click to Expand/Collapse OptionTitle
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. III,7p
Quae si beatos explicare possunt, nihil causae est quin pecudes quoque beatae esse dicantur quarum omnis ad explendam corporalem lacunam festinat intentio.
ger Notker ca. 950-1022 A.D.
Quȩ si beatos possunt explicare . nihil causȩ est . quin pecudes quoque beatȩ esse dicantur. Múgen sie ménnisken sâlige tûon . sô neménget óuh nîeht temo uéhe . núbe iz sâlîg sî. Quarum omnis intentio festinat ad explendam corporalem lacunam. Tés sín állêr íst ten búdemund ze erfúllene.
(fra Simon de Freine ca. 1189-1200) fra Jean de Meun ca. 1300
Et se cil delit peuent faire les beneureus, il couvient donques que les bestes muez soient aussi dites beneurees des quiex toute l’entencion se haste de saouler et de raemplir le parfont ventrail de leur corps.
eng Chaucer 1343-1400 A.D.
And yif thilke delices mowen maken folk blisful, than by the same cause moten thise bestes ben cleped blisful; of whiche bestes al the entencioun hasteth to fulfille hir bodily Iolitee.
eng Elizabeth 1593 A.D. p.54-55, 7-9
which if they could yeld men happy, ther is no cause why beastes should not be lyke, whose wholle delite byes to satisfy their lust
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