For so as I haue gadered {and}
p{ro}ued
a lytel her byforn
?
?
Chaucer - Boethius
doth
3394 _wrastle_--wrastlen
3295 _vilfully_--wilsfully
3297 _outerly_--owtrely
3301 _seyne_--seyen
3304-5 _denye_--denoye
3305 _sey[e] symplely_--seye sympeli
3306 [_ne_]--from C.
3307 _seyn_--seyen
3309 _graunt[e]_--graunte
3311-12 _? ilk_--thilke
3312 _ha? _--MS. ha? e
3313 _? at_ (1)--what
_seyne_--seyn
3314 _? ilk_--thilke
3315 _set_--MS. sette, C. set
3316 _denye_--denoye
3318 _don_--MS. done, C. don
3319 _my? ten_ (1)--myhte
_dwelle_--dwellin
3320 _goode_--good]
[Headnote:
POWER, AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE CHIEF GOOD. ]
[Sidenote: For as evil is nothing, it is clear that while the
wicked can only do evil they can do nothing. ]
?
For so as I haue gadered {and} p{ro}ued a lytel her byforn
? at yuel is nau? t. {and} so as shrewes mowen oonly
but shrewednesse. ? is conclusiou{n} is al clere. ? at 3324
shrewes ne mowen ry? t nat to han power.
[Sidenote: That you may understand the force of this power, I have
proved that nothing is more powerful than the sovereign good. ]
and for as
moche as ? ou vndirstonde whiche is ? e streng? e ? at is
power of shrewes. I haue diffinised a lytel here byforn
?
3394 _wrastle_--wrastlen
3295 _vilfully_--wilsfully
3297 _outerly_--owtrely
3301 _seyne_--seyen
3304-5 _denye_--denoye
3305 _sey[e] symplely_--seye sympeli
3306 [_ne_]--from C.
3307 _seyn_--seyen
3309 _graunt[e]_--graunte
3311-12 _? ilk_--thilke
3312 _ha? _--MS. ha? e
3313 _? at_ (1)--what
_seyne_--seyn
3314 _? ilk_--thilke
3315 _set_--MS. sette, C. set
3316 _denye_--denoye
3318 _don_--MS. done, C. don
3319 _my? ten_ (1)--myhte
_dwelle_--dwellin
3320 _goode_--good]
[Headnote:
POWER, AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE CHIEF GOOD. ]
[Sidenote: For as evil is nothing, it is clear that while the
wicked can only do evil they can do nothing. ]
?
For so as I haue gadered {and} p{ro}ued a lytel her byforn
? at yuel is nau? t. {and} so as shrewes mowen oonly
but shrewednesse. ? is conclusiou{n} is al clere. ? at 3324
shrewes ne mowen ry? t nat to han power.
[Sidenote: That you may understand the force of this power, I have
proved that nothing is more powerful than the sovereign good. ]
and for as
moche as ? ou vndirstonde whiche is ? e streng? e ? at is
power of shrewes. I haue diffinised a lytel here byforn
?