[Sidenote: What say you, then; are all these things, sufficiency,
power, and the rest, to be
considered
as constituent parts of
felicity?
Chaucer - Boethius
? Adde ?an q{uo}d
she ?ilke goode ?at is maked blisfulnes to alle ?e forseide
?inges. ? For ?ilke same blisfulnesse ?at is 2584
demed to ben souereyne suffisaunce. ?ilke self is
souereyne power. souereyne reuerence. sou{er}eyne clernesse
or noblesse {and} souereyne delit.
[Sidenote: What say you, then; are all these things, sufficiency,
power, and the rest, to be
considered
as constituent parts of
felicity?
or are they to be referred to the sovereign good as
their source and principal?]
what seist ?ou
?an of alle ?ise ?inges. ?at is to seyne. suffisance power 2588
{and} ?ise o?er ?inges. ben ?ei ?an as membris of blisfulnesse.