at
shrewednesse maki?
shrewednesse maki?
Chaucer - Boethius
at is longe to abide.
namelyche to a corage inmortel.
[Sidenote: The great hopes, and the subtle machinations of the
wicked, are often suddenly frustrated, by which an end is put to
their wickedness. ]
Of whiche shrewes ? e grete hope {and} ? e heye co{m}passy{n}g{us}
of shrewednesse is often destroyed by a 3552
sodeyne ende or ? ei ben war. {and} ? at ? ing establi? to
shrewes ? e ende of hir shrewednesse.
[Sidenote: If vice renders men wretched, the longer they are
vicious the longer must they be miserable. ]
? For yif ?
at
shrewednesse maki? e wrecches. ? an mot he nedes be
most wrecched ? at lengest is a shrewe.
[Sidenote: And they would be infinitely wretched if death did not
put an end to their crimes. ]
? e whiche 3556
wicked shrewes wolde ydemen aldirmost vnsely {and}
caytifs yif ? at hir shrewednes ne were yfinissed. at ? e [[pg 125]]
leste weye by ? e outerest[e] dee? .
[Sidenote: It is clear, as I have already shown, that eternal
misery is infinite. ]
for [yif] I haue concluded
so? e of ?
[Sidenote: The great hopes, and the subtle machinations of the
wicked, are often suddenly frustrated, by which an end is put to
their wickedness. ]
Of whiche shrewes ? e grete hope {and} ? e heye co{m}passy{n}g{us}
of shrewednesse is often destroyed by a 3552
sodeyne ende or ? ei ben war. {and} ? at ? ing establi? to
shrewes ? e ende of hir shrewednesse.
[Sidenote: If vice renders men wretched, the longer they are
vicious the longer must they be miserable. ]
? For yif ?
at
shrewednesse maki? e wrecches. ? an mot he nedes be
most wrecched ? at lengest is a shrewe.
[Sidenote: And they would be infinitely wretched if death did not
put an end to their crimes. ]
? e whiche 3556
wicked shrewes wolde ydemen aldirmost vnsely {and}
caytifs yif ? at hir shrewednes ne were yfinissed. at ? e [[pg 125]]
leste weye by ? e outerest[e] dee? .
[Sidenote: It is clear, as I have already shown, that eternal
misery is infinite. ]
for [yif] I haue concluded
so? e of ?