is worlde ben maked
coet{er}ne
wi?
Chaucer - Boethius
e infinit of ?
e moeuable tyme.
[Sidenote: Therefore some philosophers, who had heard that Plato
believed that this world had neither beginning nor end, falsely
concluded, that the created universe was coeternal with its
Creator. ]
wherfore som men
trowe{n} wrongefully ? at whan ? ei heren ? at it semid[e] 5016
to plato ? at ? is worlde ne had[de] neuer bygynnynge
of tyme. ne ? at it neu{er}e shal haue faylynge. ? ei wenen
i{n} ? is man{er}e ? at ?
is worlde ben maked coet{er}ne wi?
his makere. as who sei? . ? ei wenen ? at ? is worlde {and} 5020
god ben maked to-gidre eterne. and it is a wrongful
wenynge.
[Sidenote: But it is one thing to be conducted through a life of
infinite duration, which was Plato's opinion of the world, and
another thing to comprehend at once the whole extent of this
duration as present which, it is manifest, can only belong to the
Divine mind. ]
for o? er ? ing is it to ben yladd by lif interminable
as plato graunted[e] to ? e worlde. {and} o? er
?
[Sidenote: Therefore some philosophers, who had heard that Plato
believed that this world had neither beginning nor end, falsely
concluded, that the created universe was coeternal with its
Creator. ]
wherfore som men
trowe{n} wrongefully ? at whan ? ei heren ? at it semid[e] 5016
to plato ? at ? is worlde ne had[de] neuer bygynnynge
of tyme. ne ? at it neu{er}e shal haue faylynge. ? ei wenen
i{n} ? is man{er}e ? at ?
is worlde ben maked coet{er}ne wi?
his makere. as who sei? . ? ei wenen ? at ? is worlde {and} 5020
god ben maked to-gidre eterne. and it is a wrongful
wenynge.
[Sidenote: But it is one thing to be conducted through a life of
infinite duration, which was Plato's opinion of the world, and
another thing to comprehend at once the whole extent of this
duration as present which, it is manifest, can only belong to the
Divine mind. ]
for o? er ? ing is it to ben yladd by lif interminable
as plato graunted[e] to ? e worlde. {and} o? er
?