Chaucer's translation of Boethius's "De consolatione philosphiæ" / edited from British Museum additional MS. 10, 340 collated with Cambridge University Library MS. Ii.3.21 by Richard Morris
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Chaucer's translation of Boethius's "De consolatione philosphiæ" / edited from British Museum additional MS. 10, 340 collated with Cambridge University Library MS. Ii.3.21 by Richard Morris
Author
Boethius, d. 524
Editor
Morris, Richard, 1833-1894
Publication
London: Oxford University Press
1868
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"Chaucer's translation of Boethius's "De consolatione philosphiæ" / edited from British Museum additional MS. 10, 340 collated with Cambridge University Library MS. Ii.3.21 by Richard Morris." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/ChaucerBo. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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I. LOVE.
Wost thou nat wel the olde clerkes sawe,That who schal yeve a lover eny lawe,Love is a grettere lawe, by my pan,Then may be yeve to (of) eny erthly man?
(Knightes Tale, Aldine Series, vol. ii. p. 36, 37.)
But what is he þat may ȝeue a lawe to loueres. loue is a gretter lawe and a strengere to hym self þan any lawe þat men may ȝeuen.
(Chaucer's Prose Translation, p. 108.)
Quis legem det amantibus?Major lex amor est sibi.
—(Boeth., lib. iii. met. 12.)
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