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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,2c,9-12
Ut fluctus auidum mare
Certo fine coerceat,
Ne terris liceat vagis
Latos tendere terminos,
ger Notker ca. 950-1022 A.D.
Ut auidum mare . s. ad egrediendum . coerceat fluctus certo fine . ne uagis . s. fluctibus liceat tendere latos terminos in terris.
Táz óuh ter mére . dér gérno ûzkîenge . eruuénde ze guíssero márcho . sîne únstâten uuéllâ . nóh ín . íh méino dîen sélbên uuéllôn . nehénge férrôr stádôn ûz . án daz lánt.
(fra Simon de Freine ca. 1189-1200) fra Jean de Meun ca. 1300
et que la mer couvoiteuse de pourprendre la terre refrene ses floz par certain terme, et que les terres ne puissent trop estendre leur largez bonnes1
1. See note 1 to Book II, Prose 7.
eng Chaucer 1343-1400 A.D.
that the see, greedy to flowen, constreyneth with a certein ende hise flodes, so that it is nat leveful to strecche hise brode termes or boundes up-on the erthes , that is to seyn, to[ ]covere al the erthe:—
eng Elizabeth 1593 A.D. p. 41-42, 9-12
In Certaine limites kipt,
That Lawful be not to wide world
to bancke her spatius boundz :
Al this hole molde ties
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