– Ces chosez donques ou elles semblent estre ymages du vray bien, ou il semble que elles doignent aus mortiex hommes aucuns biens non mie parfaiz ; mais celui bien vray et parfait ne peuent elles pas donner.
‘Thise thinges thanne,’ quod she, ‘that is to sey, erthely suffisaunce and power and swiche thinges, either they semen lykenesses of verray good, or elles it semeth that they yeve to mortal folk a maner of goodes that ne ben nat parfit; but thilke good that is verray and parfit, that may they nat yeven.’
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Book I: THE SORROWS OF BOETHIUS
