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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. III,4p
Si igitur reverendos facere nequeunt dignitates, si ultro improborum contagione sordescunt, si mutatione temporum splendere desinunt, si gentium aestimatione vilescunt, quid est quod in se expetendae pulchritudinis habeant, nedum aliis praestent?
ger Notker ca. 950-1022 A.D.
44. CONCLUSIO.
Si igitur dignitates nequeunt facere reuerendos. Suspensio. Si ultro sordescunt contagione improborum. Et hic. Si desinunt splendere mutatione temporum. Et hic. Si uilescunt estimatione gentium. Et hic. Quid est quod habeant in se expetende pulchritudinis . nedum . i. ne dicam . aliis prestent? Depositio. Úbe hêrskéfte êrháfte getûon nemúgen . úbe sîe ióh hônet tero gûotelôsôn úbeli . únde úbe sie fóre áldi ferblîchent . táz chît slíngen gestânt . únde úbe sie fóne férrên líuten fersmáhet uuérdent . uuáz hábent sie dánne án ín lúst-sámero scôni ? íh nedárf chéden . uuáz sie íro ánderên gébên.
(fra Simon de Freine ca. 1189-1200) fra Jean de Meun ca. 1300
Se les dignitéz donques ne peuent faire les hommes dignes de reverance ne de honneur, se elles deviennent ordez et vilz par les ordures des malvais, se elles perdent leur resplendisseur et leur renom par muance de temps, se elles sont vaines et vilz par cuidance des gens, quelle chose ont elles en eulz par quoy on y doie querir biauté, ne moult moins donques aus autres ne la donroient ?
eng Chaucer 1343-1400 A.D.
Now yif that dignitees thanne ne mowen nat maken folk digne of reverence, and yif that dignitees wexen foule of hir wille by the filthe of shrewes, and yif that dignitees lesen hir shyninge by chaunginge of tymes, and yif they wexen foule by estimacioun of poeple: what is it that they han in hemself of beautee that oughte ben desired? as who seyth, non; thanne ne mowen they yeven no beautee of dignitee to non other.
eng Elizabeth 1593 A.D. p.51, 41-45
Yf then honors can not make men reuerenced, which are despisd by wicked mens infection, if by change of tyme they leave to be famous, yf by vulgar opinion despysd, what beauty haue they in them selves, or can giue others?
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