Quantas rerum flectat habenas Natura potens, quibus inmensum Legibus orbem provida servet Stringatque ligans inresoluto Singula nexu, placet arguto Fidibus lentis promere cantu.
Or me plaist a dire par chant soutil et par sons delitables comme nature, puissant et pourveable, tourne et flechist les gouvernemens des choses, et par quiex lais et par quiex establissemens elle garde ce grant monde, et comment ele lie et restraint toutez chosez par lien que nulz ne puet deslier.
It lyketh me to shewe, by subtil song, with slakke and delitable soun of strenges, how that Nature, mighty, enclineth and flitteth the governements of thinges, and by whiche lawes she, purveyable, kepeth the grete world; and how she, bindinge, restreyneth alle thinges by a bonde that may nat ben unbounde.
How many raines of Causis gideth
nature powreful, by wiche the great
World with Lawes provident kepes
and tijnge, Strains with unlousing
Knot eche thing, wel pleases with shirllest
note expres with drawing strings.
Title
Book I: THE SORROWS OF BOETHIUS
