lat 524 A.D. I,1pHaec dum mecum tacitus ipse reputarem querimoniamque lacrimabilem stili officio signarem, adstitisse mihi supra verticem uisa est mulier reuerendi admodum vultus, oculis ardentibus et ultra communem hominum valentiam perspicacibus colore vivido atque inexhausti vigoris, quamvis ita aevi plena foret ut nullo modo nostrae crederetur aetatis, statura discretionis ambiguae.
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ger Notker ca. 950-1022 A.D.Haec dum mecum tacitus reputarem ipse. Únz íh tíz suîgendo in mînemo mûote áhtôta. Et signarem lacrimabilem querimoniamque officio stili. Únde íh sús âmerlicha chlá scréib mít temo gríffele. Uisa est mulier astitisse mihi supra uerticem. Uuâr sáh íh . éin uuîb stân óbe mír. Reuerendi admodum vultus. Êr-uuírdigero tâte hárto. Ardentibus oculis. Mít érnestlichên óugôn. Et perspicacibus . ultra communem valentiam hominum. Únde dúrnóhtôr séhentên . tánne îoman ménniskôn séhen múge. Ióh profunda dei gesíhet philosophia. Colore uiuido. Mít iúnglichero uáreuuo. Sî neáltêt nîeht. Atque inexhausti vigoris. Únde mícheles mágenes . únde úngebróstenes . quia pertingit a fine usque ad finem fortiter. Quamuis ita plena esset ȩui. Tóh si sô ált uuâre. Ut nullo modo crederetur nostrȩ ȩtatis. Táz síh nîoman íro negelóubti . uuésen ébenált. Uuánda sî uuás îo. Statura discretionis ambiguȩ. In íro geuuáhste zuîueligero mícheli. Í nemáhta uuízen . uuîo míchel si uuâre.
(fra Simon de Freine ca. 1189-1200) fra Jean de Meun ca. 1300En dementiers que je, tesibles, recordoie ces chosez a moi meismes et senefiaie ma plorable complainte par office de greffe, je vi sus mon chief ester une fame de moult redoutable voult. Yeux avoit ardans et regardables oultre la commune puissance des hommes ; vive couleur ot et vigueur que nulz ne pot oncques espuisier, ja soit ce que elle fust plaine de si grant aage que on ne creait en nule maniere que ele fust de notre temps. L’estature de li estoit de douteus jugement,
eng Chaucer 1343-1400 A.D.Whyle that I stille recordede thise thinges with my-self, and markede my weeply compleynte with office of pointel, I saw, stondinge aboven the heighte of myn heved, a woman of ful greet reverence by semblaunt, hir eyen brenninge and cleer-seinge over the comune might of men; with a lyfly colour, and with swich vigour and strengthe that it ne mighte nat ben empted; al were it so that she was ful of so greet age, that men ne wolde nat trowen, in no manere, that she were of oure elde. The stature of hir was of a doutous Iugement;
eng Elizabeth 1593 A.D.While of al this alone in silence I bethought me, and tearesful complaint in stiles office ment, ouer my hed to stand a woman did apeare of stately face, with flaming yees, of insight aboue the comun worth of men; of fresche coulor and unwon strenght, thogh yet so old she wer, that of our age she seamed not be one; her stature suche as skarse could be desernd.
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Title
Book I: THE SORROWS OF BOETHIUS
