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Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's "de Consolatione Philosophiae" · 480-525? Boethius — chapter 76 of 76 · ~131 words · public domain

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... in þat þat men may holden hym myȝty. 3196 [[text printed as shown, but “in þat þat” may be an error: Skeat edition has only one “þat”]]

þe wste kynde of shrewednesse ne defouliþ nat ne 3436 entecehiþ nat hem oonly but infectiþ {and} enuenemyþ [[text unchanged: expected form “entecchiþ”]

... þan sheweþ 3560 it clerely þat þilke shrewednesse is wiþ outen ende ... [[text printed as shown, but may be an error for “wrecchednesse” as in Skeat; sidenote has “eternal misery is infinite”]]

Glossary

Alþermoste, most of all, 158/4563 Alþerworste, worst of all, 157/4562 [[Both are two words in primary text: Alþer moste, Alþer worste]]

Anguissous, anxious, sorrowful, 41/1062, 1066 [41/1062, 1606]

Anoienge, 22/532 [[definition missing]]

Fel, felle, fierce 44/1160 [[citation “44/1160” supplied by transcriber]]

Taylage, tollage, 181/54 [181/524]

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