No sooner have
you
obtained
them, than you cease to be secure.
Chaucer - Boethius
an woldest ?ou syng[e] 1316
by-fore ?e ?eef. ? As who sei? a poure man ?at bere?
no rycchesse on hym by ?e weye. may boldly syng[e]
byforne ?eues. for he ha? nat wher-of to ben robbed.
[Sidenote: O the transcendant felicity of riches!
No sooner have
you
obtained
them, than you cease to be secure.
]
? O preciouse {and} ry?t clere is ?e blysfulnesse of 1320
mortal rycchesse. ?at wha{n} ?ou hast geten it. ?an hast
?ou lorn ?i syke[r]nesse.
