Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Consolatione Philosophie 1 Prose 2 to Geoffrey Chaucer

'I graunte wel,' quod I. [continues next]

'Forsothe,' quod she, 'than nedeth ther som-what that every [continues next]

[continues previous] 'Forsothe,' quod she, 'than nedeth ther som-what that every

Who so had loked with your eyen.' [continues next]

'With myn? nay, alle that hir seyen [continues next]

I am your doghter Custance,' quod she, [continues next]

For sith it lyketh yow, my lord,' quod she, [continues next]

face of my fysicien; so that I sette myn eyen on hir, and fastnede

my lookinge. I beholde my norice Philosophie, in whos houses

of ditees that highten tragedies, cryde and seide: "O glorie,

glorie," quod he, "thou art nothing elles to thousandes of folkes

She axeth grace, and seith al that she can. [continues next]

'Ne wolt thou nat,' quod he, this cruel man, [continues next]

[continues previous] Who so had loked with your eyen.'

[continues previous] 'With myn? nay, alle that hir seyen

This Diomede is inne, and thou art oute.'

'Thou seyst nat sooth,' quod he, 'thou sorceresse,

[continues previous] 'That whylom ye han sent un-to Surrye.

[continues previous] For sith it lyketh yow, my lord,' quod she,

[continues previous] 'That whylom weren al myn hertes reste,

[continues previous] She axeth grace, and seith al that she can.

... saved as the lord. The same deeth that taketh the cherl, swich deeth taketh the lord. Wherfore I rede, do right so with thy cherl, as thou woldest that thy lord dide with thee, if thou were in his plyt. Every sinful man is a cherl to sinne. I rede thee, certes, that thou, lord, werke in swiche wyse with thy cherles, that they rather love thee than drede. I woot wel ther is degree above degree, as reson is; and skile it is, that men do hir devoir ther-as it is due; but certes, extorcions and despit of youre underlinges is dampnable.

thou ne haddest not lorn hem. Shal I thanne only ben defended [continues next]

thilke thinges? First and forward thou thy-self, that haddest [continues next]

which thing it folweth, that yif thou ne have no gentilesse of

thy-self, that is to seyn, preyse that comth of thy deserte, foreine

[continues previous] thou ne haddest not lorn hem. Shal I thanne only ben defended

[continues previous] thilke thinges? First and forward thou thy-self, that haddest

Ne eek thy mayde Gille I may nat save; [continues next]

Axe nat why, for though thou aske me, [continues next]

For thanne his lyf is set in sikernesse;

He may nat be deceyved, as I gesse,

drede? And certes, yit wolden they liven in sikernesse, but

they may nat; and yit they glorifye hem in hir power. Holdest

[continues previous] Axe nat why, for though thou aske me,

It were me lever that it were for shame; but it semeth me that [continues next]

astoninge hath oppressed thee.' And whan she say me nat only [continues next]

That toucheth harm or any vilenye; [continues next]

For dredelees, me were lever dye [continues next]

That him were lever han shame (and that were routhe)

Yet were me lever that I were unborn

Than me were doon a sclaundre or vileinye;

That lever me were keyes for to bere,

[continues previous] nat? Why art thou stille? Is it for shame or for astoninge? [continues next]

[continues previous] It were me lever that it were for shame; but it semeth me that [continues next]

[continues previous] For dredelees, me were lever dye

[continues previous] nat? Why art thou stille? Is it for shame or for astoninge?

... of Capricorne; and thanne sette I the point of F upward in the same signe, bycause that the latitude was north, up-on the latitude of Venus, that is to seyn, in the 6 degree fro the heved of Capricorne; and thus have I 2 degrees by-twixe my two prikkes. Than leide I doun softely my compas, and sette the degree of the longitude up-on the orisonte; tho tok I and wexede my label in maner of a peyre tables to resceyve distinctly the prikkes of my compas. Tho tok I this forseide label, and leide it fix over the degree of ... [continues next]

Help, Troilus!' and ther-with-al hir face [continues next]

Upon his brest she leyde, and loste speche; [continues next]

Hir woful spirit from his propre place, [continues next]

'But he,' quod she, 'that is almighty, ther nis nothing that he [continues next]

'Ne it nis no mervaile,' quod she, 'though that men wenen that [continues next]

[continues previous] ... in the 6 degree of Capricorne; and thanne sette I the point of F upward in the same signe, bycause that the latitude was north, up-on the latitude of Venus, that is to seyn, in the 6 degree fro the heved of Capricorne; and thus have I 2 degrees by-twixe my two prikkes. Than leide I doun softely my compas, and sette the degree of the longitude up-on the orisonte; tho tok I and wexede my label in maner of a peyre tables to resceyve distinctly the prikkes of my compas. Tho tok I this forseide label, and leide it fix over the degree of my longitude; tho tok I up ...

[continues previous] Help, Troilus!' and ther-with-al hir face

[continues previous] Upon his brest she leyde, and loste speche;

[continues previous] 'But he,' quod she, 'that is almighty, ther nis nothing that he

[continues previous] cause why that it is?'

[continues previous] 'Ne it nis no mervaile,' quod she, 'though that men wenen that

... men sholde holden hem stille and yeven him audience. 'Lordinges,' quod he, 'ther is ful many a man that cryeth "werre! werre!" that woot ful litel what werre amounteth. Werre at his biginning hath so greet an entree and so large, that every wight may entre whan him lyketh, and lightly finde werre. But, certes, what ende that shal ther-of bifalle, it is nat light to knowe. For sothly, whan that werre is ones bigonne, ther is ful many a child unborn of his moder, that shal sterve yong by-cause of that ilke werre, or elles live in sorwe and dye in wrecchednesse. And ther-fore, er that any werre ...

That he now hath so clerly seen? [continues next]

[continues previous] To knowen openly her thought,

[continues previous] That he now hath so clerly seen?

soothfastnesse to lowe thinges and derke, anon they derken by

the cloude of ignoraunce and ben troubled by felonous talents; to

... his conseil weren accorded that he sholde maken werre, anoon he consented to hir conseilling, and fully affermed hir sentence. Thanne dame Prudence, whan that she saugh how that hir housbonde shoop him for to wreken him on his foos, and to biginne werre, she in ful humble wyse, when she saugh hir tyme, seide him thise wordes: 'My lord,' quod she, 'I yow biseche as hertely as I dar and can, ne haste yow nat to faste, and for alle guerdons as yeveth me audience. For Piers Alfonce seith: "who-so that dooth to that other good or harm, haste thee nat to quyten it; for in this wyse thy freend wol ...

the boyling up from the botme; the wawes, that whylom weren