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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. II,8p
Sed ne me inexorabile contra fortunam gerere bellum putes, est aliquando cum de hominibus illa, fallax illa nihil, bene mereatur,
ger Notker ca. 950-1022 A.D.
50. QUANTUM MELIOR SIT ADUERSA QUAM PROSPERA FORTUNA.
Sed ne me putes gerere inexorabile bellum contra fortunam . est aliquando cum fallax . illa nihil . bene mereatur de hominibus. Táz tu dóh neuuânêst táz íh trîben uuélle . sámo-so geéinôten uuîg sáment fortuna . sî lúkka . sî íst ióh uuîlôn gûot mánne . íh méino sô si lúkke neíst.
(fra Simon de Freine ca. 1189-1200) fra Jean de Meun ca. 1300
Mais pour ce que tu ne cuidez que je vueille contre Fortune faire bataille qui ne puisse estre apaisiee, aucune foiz avient il que il semble que elle, decevable, deserve a avoir des hommes bonne merite et bonnes gracez,
eng Chaucer 1343-1400 A.D.
‘But for as mochel as thou shalt nat wenen’, quod she, ‘that I bere untretable bataile ayeins fortune, yit som-tyme it bifalleth that she, deceyvable , deserveth to han right good thank of men;
eng Elizabeth 1593 A.D. p. 40, 1-3
"But lest you shuld suppose against fortune I make an Endles war, Ther is a time whan she, the begiling one, some-what wel of men desarues :
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