[Sidenote: They slept upon the grass, and drank of the running
stream, and
reclined
under the shadow of the tall pine.
Chaucer - Boethius
t[e] flies of ?e co{n}tre
of siriens wi? ?e venym of tirie. ?is is to seyne. ?ei
cou?e nat dien white flies of sirien contre wi? ?e 1332
blode of a manar shelfysshe. ?at men fynden in tyrie.
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?
