e
mutabilite
of floures of ?
Chaucer - Boethius
?
an for ?
e resou{n} by
whiche it is gouerned.
[Sidenote: How fleeting is beauty! ]
but ? e shynynge of ? i forme ? at
is to seien ? e beaute of ? i body. how swiftly passyng is
it {and} how transitorie.
[Sidenote: It fades sooner than the vernal flowers. ]
? Certis it is more flittynge 2232
? an ?
e mutabilite of floures of ? e som{er} sesou{n}.
[Sidenote: For, as Aristotle says, if a man were lynx-eyed and
could look into the entrails of Alcibiades (so fair outwardly) he
would find all foul and loathsome. ]
For so
as aristotil telle? ? at yif ? at men hadden eyen of a
beest ? at hi? t lynx. so ? at ? e lokyng of folk my? t[e]
percen ? oru? ? e ?
whiche it is gouerned.
[Sidenote: How fleeting is beauty! ]
but ? e shynynge of ? i forme ? at
is to seien ? e beaute of ? i body. how swiftly passyng is
it {and} how transitorie.
[Sidenote: It fades sooner than the vernal flowers. ]
? Certis it is more flittynge 2232
? an ?
e mutabilite of floures of ? e som{er} sesou{n}.
[Sidenote: For, as Aristotle says, if a man were lynx-eyed and
could look into the entrails of Alcibiades (so fair outwardly) he
would find all foul and loathsome. ]
For so
as aristotil telle? ? at yif ? at men hadden eyen of a
beest ? at hi? t lynx. so ? at ? e lokyng of folk my? t[e]
percen ? oru? ? e ?
