[Sidenote: Their disease God cures by the
medicine
of money.
Chaucer - Boethius
ilk wilfulnesse ?
e whiche
p{ro}sperite men seen ofte serue to shrewes.
[Sidenote: Another reason for dispensing worldly bliss to the
wicked is, that indigence would prompt naturally violent and
rapacious minds to commit the greatest enormities. ]
in ? e whiche 4056
? ing I trowe ? at god dispensi? . for p{er}auenture ? e nature
of som man is so ouer? rowyng to yuel {and} so vncouenable
? at ? e nedy pouerte of hys house-hold my? t[e]
ra? er egren hym to done felonies.
[Sidenote: Their disease God cures by the medicine of money. ]
and to ? e maladie 4060
of hym god putti? remedie to ? iuen hym rychesse.
[Sidenote: Some men will cease to do wrong for fear, lest their
wealth be lost through their crimes. ]
{and} som o? er man byholdi? hys conscience defouled wi?
synnes {and} maki? co{m}parisou{n} of his fortune {and} of
hym self ? and dredi? p{er}auenture ? at hys blisfulnesse 4064
of whiche ? e vsage is ioyful to hym ? at ?
p{ro}sperite men seen ofte serue to shrewes.
[Sidenote: Another reason for dispensing worldly bliss to the
wicked is, that indigence would prompt naturally violent and
rapacious minds to commit the greatest enormities. ]
in ? e whiche 4056
? ing I trowe ? at god dispensi? . for p{er}auenture ? e nature
of som man is so ouer? rowyng to yuel {and} so vncouenable
? at ? e nedy pouerte of hys house-hold my? t[e]
ra? er egren hym to done felonies.
[Sidenote: Their disease God cures by the medicine of money. ]
and to ? e maladie 4060
of hym god putti? remedie to ? iuen hym rychesse.
[Sidenote: Some men will cease to do wrong for fear, lest their
wealth be lost through their crimes. ]
{and} som o? er man byholdi? hys conscience defouled wi?
synnes {and} maki? co{m}parisou{n} of his fortune {and} of
hym self ? and dredi? p{er}auenture ? at hys blisfulnesse 4064
of whiche ? e vsage is ioyful to hym ? at ?
