e whiche
felonous
Cite?
Chaucer - Boethius
]
for in ? is wise more clerely {and} 3764
more witnesfully is ? e office of wise men ytretid whan
? e blisfulnes {and} [the] pouste of gouerno{ur}s is as it
were yshad amonges poeples ? at ben ney? boures {and}
subgit? . syn ? at namely prisou{n} lawe {and} ? ise o? er 3768
to{ur}ment? of lawful peynes ben ra? er owed to felonous
Cite? eins. for ?
e whiche felonous Cite? eins ? o peynes
ben establissed. ? an for goode folk.
[Sidenote: Why, then, should things undergo so unnatural a
change? Why should the worthy suffer and the vicious receive
the reward of virtue? ]
? ? an I m{er}ueile
me gretly q{uo}d I. whi [? {a}t] ? e ? inges ben so mys 3772
entrechaunged. ? at to{ur}ment?
for in ? is wise more clerely {and} 3764
more witnesfully is ? e office of wise men ytretid whan
? e blisfulnes {and} [the] pouste of gouerno{ur}s is as it
were yshad amonges poeples ? at ben ney? boures {and}
subgit? . syn ? at namely prisou{n} lawe {and} ? ise o? er 3768
to{ur}ment? of lawful peynes ben ra? er owed to felonous
Cite? eins. for ?
e whiche felonous Cite? eins ? o peynes
ben establissed. ? an for goode folk.
[Sidenote: Why, then, should things undergo so unnatural a
change? Why should the worthy suffer and the vicious receive
the reward of virtue? ]
? ? an I m{er}ueile
me gretly q{uo}d I. whi [? {a}t] ? e ? inges ben so mys 3772
entrechaunged. ? at to{ur}ment?
