Ne no gest ne no
straunger
[ne] karf
?
?
Chaucer - Boethius
wi? whiche blode men deien purper.
[Sidenote: They slept upon the grass, and drank of the running
stream, and reclined under the shadow of the tall pine. ]
? ? ei slepen
holesom slepes vpon ? e gras. and dronken of ? e rynnyng
watres. {and} laien vndir ? e shadowe of ? e hey? e 1336
pyne trees.
[Sidenote: No man yet ploughed the deep, nor did the merchant
traffick with foreign shores. ]
?
Ne no gest ne no straunger [ne] karf
? it ? e heye see wi? oores or wi? shippes. ne ? ei ne
hadden seyne ? itte none newe strondes to leden merchaundyse [[pg 51]]
in to dyuerse co{n}tres.
[Sidenote: The warlike trumpet was hushed and still. ]
? ? o weren ? e cruel 1340
clariou{n}s ful whist {and} ful stille.
[Sidenote: Bloodshed had not yet arisen through hateful quarrels. ]
ne blode yshed by
egre hate ne hadde nat deied ? it armurers.
