No More Learning

[Sidenote: [The viij Met{ur}. ]]

[Sidenote: This world, by an invariable order, suffers change. ]

++THat ? ^e world w{i}t{h} stable feith / varieth acordable
chaungynges //

[Sidenote: Elements, that by nature disagree, are restrained by
concord. ]

? {a}t the contraryos qualite of element? 1680
holden among{e} hem self aliau{n}ce p{er}durable / ? {a}t pheb{us}
the sonne w{i}t{h} his goldene chariet / bryngeth forth the
rosene day / ? {a}t the mone hath {com}mau{n}dement ou{er} the
nyhtes // whiche nyhtes hesp{er}us the eue sterre hat browt // 1684

[Sidenote: The sea is thus kept within its proper bounds. ]

? {a}t ? ^e se gredy to flowen constreyneth w{i}t{h} a certeyn ende
hise floodes / so ? {a}t it is nat l[e]ueful to strechche hise
brode termes or bowndes vp-on the erthes // ? {a}t is to seyn
to cou{er}e alle the erthe //

[Sidenote: This concord is produced by love, which governeth earth
and sea, and extends its influence to the heavens. ]

Al this a-cordau{n}ce of thinges 1688
is bownden w{i}t{h} looue / ?
{a}t gou{er}neth erthe {and} see / {and}
hath also {com}mau{n}dement? to the heuenes /

[Sidenote: If this chain of love were broken all things would be
in perpetual strife, and the world would go to ruin. ]

{and} yif
this looue slakede the brydelis / alle thinges ? {a}t now
louen hem to gederes / wolden maken a batayle contynuely 1692
{and} stryuen to fordoon the fasou{n} of this worlde /
the which they now leden in acordable feith by fayre
moeuynges //

[Sidenote: Love binds nations together, it ties the nuptial knot,
and dictates binding laws to friendship. ]

this looue halt to gideres poeples Ioygned
w{i}t{h} an hooly bond / {and} knytteth sacrement of maryages 1696
of chaste looues // And loue enditeth lawes to
trewe felawes //

[Sidenote: Men were truly blest if governed by this celestial
love! ']

O weleful weer{e} mankynde / yif thilke
loue ? {a}t gouerneth heuene gouerned[e] yowr{e} corages /

EXPLICIT LIB{ER} 2_^us_.

[Linenote:
1690 _hath_--H. he hath]




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[Headnote:
BOETHIUS IS COMFORTED BY PHILOSOPHY'S SONG. ]

INCIPIT LIB{ER} 3^_us_.


IAM CANTU{M} ILLA FINIERAT.

[Sidenote: [The fyrste p{ro}se. ]]

[Sidenote: Philosophy now ended her song. ]

++By this she hadde endid hir{e} song{e} / whan the swetnesse 1700
of hir{e} ditee hadde thorw p{er}ced me ? {a}t was desirous
of herkninge /

[Sidenote: I was so charmed that I kept a listening as if she were
still speaking. ]

{and} .