)
Ora non tinxit lacrymis, sed esse
Censor extincti potuit decoris.
Ora non tinxit lacrymis, sed esse
Censor extincti potuit decoris.
Chaucer - Boethius
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.
(_Boethius_, lib. ii. met. 6. )
VIII. PREDESTINATION AND FREE-WILL.
In 'Troylus and Cryseyde' we find the following long passage taken from
Boethius, book v. prose 2, 3.
Book iv. st. 134, vol. iv. p. 339.
(1) Syn God seth every thynge, out of doutaunce,
And hem disponeth, thorugh his ordinaunce,
In hire merites sothely for to be,
As they shul comen by predesteyne
136
(2) For som men seyn if God seth al byforne,
Ne God may not deseyved ben parde!
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.
(_Boethius_, lib. ii. met. 6. )
VIII. PREDESTINATION AND FREE-WILL.
In 'Troylus and Cryseyde' we find the following long passage taken from
Boethius, book v. prose 2, 3.
Book iv. st. 134, vol. iv. p. 339.
(1) Syn God seth every thynge, out of doutaunce,
And hem disponeth, thorugh his ordinaunce,
In hire merites sothely for to be,
As they shul comen by predesteyne
136
(2) For som men seyn if God seth al byforne,
Ne God may not deseyved ben parde!
