[Sidenote: Your wife Rusticiana is also alive, and bewails her separation
from you.
Chaucer - Boethius
?e whiche 1028
man ?ou woldest b[i]en redely wi? ?e pris of ?in owen
lijf. he byweyle? ?e wronges ?at men don to ?ee. {and}
not for hym self. for he liue? in sykernesse of any
sentence put a?eins him.
[Sidenote: Your wife Rusticiana is also alive, and bewails her separation
from you.
]
? And ?it lyue? ?i wif ?at 1032
is attempre of witte {and} passyng o?er women in clennes
of chastitee. and for I wol closen shortly her bountes
she is lyke to hir fadir. I telle ?e welle ?at she lyue?
loo? of hir life. {and} kepi? to ?
