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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
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III. 
33. AUARO INUTILES ESSE DIUITIAS. 
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Metre III.
Quamvis fluente diues auri gurgite. 
III. MYTER. 
Quamvis fluente dives auri gurgite
   Non expleturas cogat avarus opes
 
Quamuis auarus diues fluente gurgite auri . cogat non expleturas opes.
Tóh ter frécho mán . sámo rîche uuórtenêr . sámo-so ímo zûo-rínne daz cóld . sînen scáz tés ímo nîomêr fóllûn nedúnchet . kehûfoe.  
Ja soit ce que li liches avers a tout un gort decorant d’or amoncelle richeces qui ja ne li acompliront sa couvoitise, 
Al were it so that a riche coveytous man hadde a river fletinge al of gold, yit sholde it never staunchen his coveitise ; 
Thogh riche man with flowing golden qolfe
Couetous hepes not rechis that Suffice 
Oneretque bacis colla rubri litoris
   Ruraque centeno scindat opima bove,
 
Oneretque colla bacis rubri litoris .
Únde er geláde sînen háls mít tîen gímmôn des rôten méres.
Et scindat opima rura centeno boue.
Únde er mít cênzet flûogen ze áchere gánge . in bírîgemo lánde.  
et ait chargié son col de pierres precieusez et face ses champs planteureus arer a cent beus, 
and though he hadde his nekke y-charged with precious stones of the rede see, and though he do ere his feldes plentivous with an hundred oxen, 
His neck adornes with qeme of Reddis Sea
  With hundred oxe the fruitful fildz doth til: 
Nec cura mordax deseret superstitem,
   Defunctumque leves non comitantur opes.
 
Nec cura mordag deserit superstitem.
Úmbe dáz negebrístet ímo nîo sórgûn lébendemo.
Et defunctum non comitantur leues opes.
Nóh úmbe dáz nefólgênt ímo nîeht tôtemo . sîne lîeht-lichen sáchâ.  
ja la cure mordans et angoisseuse ne le laissera tant comme il soit vis, ne les fuitives richecez ne li feront pas compaingnie quant il sera mort. 
never ne shal his bytinge bisinesse for-leten him whyl he liveth , ne the lighte richesses ne sholle nat beren him companye whan he is ded. 
Yet Eating Care leves not him quicke,
Nor ded the fliting good accompagnies. 
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