at
children
han ben
fou{n}den tormentours to hir fadres I not how many.
Chaucer - Boethius
e same cause moten ?ise bestes ben clepid blisful.
? Of whiche bestes al ?e entenc{i}ou{n} haste? to fulfille 2188
hire bodyly iolyte.
[Sidenote: A wife and children do not always bring happiness, for
some have found tormentors in their own offspring.]
and ?e gladnesse of wijf [{and}]
children were [an] honest ?ing. but it ha? ben seid.
?at it is ouer myche a?eins kynde ?
at
children
han ben
fou{n}den tormentours to hir fadres I not how many.
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? Of whiche children how bitynge is euery condic{i}ou{n}.
It nede? nat to tellen it ?e ?at hast or ?is tyme assaied
it. {and} art ?it now anguysso{us}.
[Sidenote: I approve of this opinion of Euripides, that he who is
childless is happy in his misfortune.]
In ?is approue I ?e
sentence of my disciple Euridippus. ?at seide ?
