e dyuersite of preciouse
ostelment?
Chaucer - Boethius
so greet a noyse {and} wi?
so greet a fare
[Sidenote: Is it to drive away indigence by abundance? ]
? I
trowe ? ou seke to dryue awey nede wi? habundaunce
of ? inges.
[Sidenote: But the very reverse of this happens, for there is need
of many helps to keep a variety of valuable goods. ]
? But certys it turne? to ? ow al in ? e 1264
contrarie. for whi certys it nedi? of ful many[e] helpynges
to kepen ?
e dyuersite of preciouse ostelment? .
[Sidenote: They want most things who have the most. ]
and so? e it is ? at of many[e] ? inges han ? ei nede ? at
many[e] ? inges han.
[Sidenote: They want the fewest who measure their abundance by the
necessities of nature, and not by the superfluity of their
desires. ]
{and} a? eyneward of litel nedi? 1268
hem ? at mesuren hir fille after ? e nede of kynde {and}
nat after ?
[Sidenote: Is it to drive away indigence by abundance? ]
? I
trowe ? ou seke to dryue awey nede wi? habundaunce
of ? inges.
[Sidenote: But the very reverse of this happens, for there is need
of many helps to keep a variety of valuable goods. ]
? But certys it turne? to ? ow al in ? e 1264
contrarie. for whi certys it nedi? of ful many[e] helpynges
to kepen ?
e dyuersite of preciouse ostelment? .
[Sidenote: They want most things who have the most. ]
and so? e it is ? at of many[e] ? inges han ? ei nede ? at
many[e] ? inges han.
[Sidenote: They want the fewest who measure their abundance by the
necessities of nature, and not by the superfluity of their
desires. ]
{and} a? eyneward of litel nedi? 1268
hem ? at mesuren hir fille after ? e nede of kynde {and}
nat after ?