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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Boethius, d. 524

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Morris, Richard, 1833-1894

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London: Oxford University Press

1868

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LE RESPOUNCE DE FORTUNE A PLEINTIF.

                  
                    ¶ No man ys wrechchyd but hym self yt wene
                  
                    And he þat hath hym self hat suffisaunce
                  
                    Whi seysthow thanne y am [to] the so kene
                  
                    Þat hast thy self owt of my gouernaunce
                  
                    Sey thus graunt mercy of thyn haboundaunce
                  
                    That thow hast lent or this why wolt þou stryue
                  
                    What woost thow yit how y the wol auaunce
                  
                    And ek thow hast thy beste frende a-lyue

                  
                    ¶ I haue the tawht deuisyoun by-twene
                  
                    Frend of effect̘ and frende of cowntenaunce
                  
                    The nedeth nat the galle of no hyene
                  
                    Þat cureth eyen derkyd for penaunce
                  
                    Now se[st] [partly erased and ist written on it in a later hand.]  thow cleer þat weere in ignoraunce
                  
                    Yit halt thin ancre and yit thow mayst aryue
                  
                    Ther bownte berth the keye of my substaunce
                  
                    And ek þou hast thy beste frende alyue

                  
                    ¶ How manye haue .I. refused to sustigne [ igne of sustigne is in a later hand.] 
                  
                    Syn .I. the fostred haue in thy plesaunce
                  
                    Wolthow thanne make a statute on þy quyene
                  
                    Þat .I. shal ben ay at thy ordynaunce
                  
                    Thow born art in my regne of varyaunce
                  
                    Abowte the wheel with oother most thow dryue
                  
                    My loore is bet than wikke is thi greuaunce
                  
                    And ek þou hast thy beste frende a-lyue