is
tyrau{n}t wende to han maked
mater{e}
of cruelte.
Chaucer - Boethius
at
was cast a?eins ?is tyraunt
[Sidenote: Have you not read how Anaxarchus bit off his tongue and
spat it in the face of Nicocreon?]
? But ?is free man boot 1400
of hys owen tunge. {and} cast it in ?e visage of ?ilke
woode tyrau{n}te. ? So ?at ?e to{ur}ment? ?at ?
is
tyrau{n}t wende to han maked
mater{e}
of cruelte.
?is
wyse man maked[e it] matere of vertues.
[Sidenote: What is it that one man can do to another that does not
admit of retaliation?]
? But what 1404
?ing is it ?at a man may don to an o?er man. ?at he
ne may receyue ?e same ?ing of o?er folke i{n} hym
self. or ?us.
