Gret wonder is how that he couthe or mighte
Be
domesman
on hir dede beaute.
Chaucer - Boethius
)
For if ?e name of gentilesse be referred to renoun and clernesse
of linage. ?an is gentil name but a foreine ?ing.
(_Chaucer's Boethius_, p. 78.)
_Quae_ [nobilitas], _si ad claritudinem refertur, aliena est._
(_Boethius_, lib. iii. pr. 6.)
VII. NERO'S CRUELTY.
No teer out of his eyen for that sighte
Ne cam; but sayde, a fair womman was sche.
Gret wonder is how that he couthe or mighte
Be
domesman
on hir dede beaute.
(_The Monkes Tale_, vol. iii. p. 217.)
Ne no tere ne wette his face, but he was so hard-herted ?at he
my?te ben domesman or iuge of hire dede beaute.
(_Chaucer's Boethius_, p. 55.)
Ora non tinxit lacrymis, sed esse
Censor extincti potuit decoris.
