Boecius de consolacione philosophie

Qinsquis profunda mente vestigat verū. ••upit{que} nul∣lis ille demis fall••. In se reuoluat intum lucem visus Long••s{que} in o••bem cogat inflectens motus. Ammū{que} ••••ce at q••••dq••••d e••••ra moli••ur. Sins recrusū possi∣dere thesa••••••s. Dudum qin acra te••it erroris nubes. Lucebi•• ipso perspicacius phebo etc

WHo so seketh sothe. by a depe thoughte. and coueyteth to been deceyued by noo mysweyes / lete him rollen and treden with in him selfe. the lighte of his Inward sight. and lete him gaderen ayen enclinyng into a compas the longe moeuynges of his thoughtes. and lete him te∣chen his corage. that he hath enclosed and hydd in hys tresours / al that he hath compassed or sought frowithoute And then̄e thilke thing that the black cloudes of errour whilom had couerid shal lighte more clerely than phebus him self ne shyneth / Glosa. who so wol seke the depe groū∣des of soth in his thoughte. & wole not be deceyued by false pposicions that gon amys from the trouth. lete him wel ex∣amyne & rolle within him self the nature & {pro}pretees of the thing / And lete him yet eftsones examyne and rollen his thoughtes by goode deliberacion or that he deme. And late him techen̄ his sowle. that hit hath by naturel princy∣plis kind••lich yhidd with in hit selfe alle the trouthe the whiche he ymagyneth to been in thinges withoute / And thenne all the derkenes of his mysknowyng shalle seen̄ more euydently to the sight of his vnderstonding than the sonne ne semeth to the sighte withoute forth. For certes the body bringyng the weighte of foryetyng ne hath not chaced oute of your thought all the clerenes of your kno∣wyng. for certaynly the seed of soth holdeth and cleueth within youre corage / And it is awaked and excited by the wyndes and by the blastes of doctrine / for wherfore els demen ye of youre owne will the rightes whan ye be axed But if so were that the norisshing of reson ne lyued y••plunged in the depe of youre herte. That is to seyne howe

shold men demen the ••oth of ony thing that were axed. & if ther nere a rote of sothfastnes that were yplunged and hyd in naturel principles. the whiche sothfastnes liued within the depnes of the thoughte / And if so be that the muse & the doctrine of Plato ••ingeth soth. Al that euery wight lerneth / he ne doth nothing ellis then̄e but recordeth as men recorden thinges that ben foryeten