Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5 to Geoffrey Chaucer
Summary

Geoffrey Chaucer Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5 has 33 lines, and 15% of them have strong matches at magnitude 15+ in Geoffrey Chaucer. 67% of the lines have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14. 18% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.27 strong matches and 8.42 weak matches.

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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 1

'Thus see I wel,' quod I, 'either what blisfulnesse or elles
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Melibee's Tale: 12

... availleth to speken bifore folk to whiche his speche anoyeth, as dooth to singe biforn him that wepeth. And whan this wyse man saugh that him wanted audience, al shamefast he sette him doun agayn. For Salomon seith: "ther-as thou ne mayst have noon audience, enforce thee nat to speke." 'I see wel,' quod this wyse man, 'that the commune proverbe is sooth; that "good conseil wanteth whan it is most nede."'
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 9: 5

'For sothe,' quod I, 'I see wel now that suffisaunce may nat
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 11: 138

Boece. 'Now confesse I wel,' quod I, 'that I see now wel
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 2: 39

comen to blisfulnesse?'
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 2: 40

'It remembreth me wel,' quod I, 'that it hath ben shewed.'
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 2

what unselinesse is establisshed in the desertes of goode men and
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 3: 54

gretly? And also look on shrewes, that ben the contrarie party [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 3: 55

of goode men, how greet peyne felawshipeth and folweth hem! [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Metre 4: 12

Wiltow thanne yelden a covenable guerdoun to the desertes of
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Metre 4: 13

men? Love rightfully goode folk, and have pitee on shrewes.'
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 3

of shrewes. But in this ilke fortune of poeple I see somwhat of
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 3: 54

[continues previous] gretly? And also look on shrewes, that ben the contrarie party
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 3: 55

[continues previous] of goode men, how greet peyne felawshipeth and folweth hem!
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 4

good and somwhat of yvel. For no wyse man hath lever ben
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Lak of Stedfastnesse: 16

Vertu hath now no dominacioun, [continues next]
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Lak of Stedfastnesse: 17

Pitee exyled, no man is merciable. [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 5

exyled, poore and nedy, and nameles, than for to dwellen in his
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Lak of Stedfastnesse: 17

[continues previous] Pitee exyled, no man is merciable.
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 11

and thise othre torments of laweful peynes ben rather owed to
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 2: 40

a ful holy maner thing. Alle thise othre thinges, forsothe, ben
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 2: 41

taken for cause of power or elles for cause of delyt.
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 10: 123

blisfulnesse, so that alle thise othre thinges ben referred and
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 4: 213

pitee, ben they of whiche the thoughtes ben constreined by [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 12

felonous citezeins, for the whiche felonous citezeins tho peynes [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 13

ben establisshed, than for good folk. Thanne I mervaile me [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 6: 192

And som men, that ne mowen nat ben overcomen by torments,
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 6: 193

have yeven ensaumple to othre folk, that vertu may nat ben overcomen
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 2: 27

the cloude of ignoraunce and ben troubled by felonous talents; to [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 12

felonous citezeins, for the whiche felonous citezeins tho peynes
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 4: 213

[continues previous] pitee, ben they of whiche the thoughtes ben constreined by [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 4: 214

[continues previous] felonous wikkednesse, that is more cruel than any languissinge of [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 11

[continues previous] and thise othre torments of laweful peynes ben rather owed to [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 12

[continues previous] felonous citezeins, for the whiche felonous citezeins tho peynes [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 13

[continues previous] ben establisshed, than for good folk. Thanne I mervaile me [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 2: 27

[continues previous] the cloude of ignoraunce and ben troubled by felonous talents; to [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 2: 28

[continues previous] the whiche talents whan they aprochen and asenten, they hepen [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 13

ben establisshed, than for good folk. Thanne I mervaile me
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 11: 1

Boece. 'I assente me,' quod I; 'for alle thise thinges ben [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 12: 51

'And I have shewed that god is the same good?' [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 12: 53

'Thanne ordeineth he alle thinges by thilke good,' quod she; [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 12: 58

'I acorde me greetly,' quod I; 'and I aperceivede a litel her-biforn [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 4: 213

[continues previous] pitee, ben they of whiche the thoughtes ben constreined by
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 11

[continues previous] and thise othre torments of laweful peynes ben rather owed to
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 12

[continues previous] felonous citezeins, for the whiche felonous citezeins tho peynes
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 1: 17

thilke thinges to-gedere, in the whiche thinges I delyte me greetly, [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 1: 18

that shal ben to me in stede of reste; sin it is nat to douten of [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 2: 27

[continues previous] the cloude of ignoraunce and ben troubled by felonous talents; to
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 14

greetly,' quod I, 'why that the thinges ben so mis entrechaunged,
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 11: 1

[continues previous] Boece. 'I assente me,' quod I; 'for alle thise thinges ben
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 12: 58

[continues previous] 'I acorde me greetly,' quod I; 'and I aperceivede a litel her-biforn
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 3: 4

medes, ne shrewes lakken never-mo torments. For of alle thinges [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 3: 5

that ben y-doon, thilke thing, for which any-thing is don, it semeth [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 1: 17

[continues previous] thilke thinges to-gedere, in the whiche thinges I delyte me greetly,
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 1: 18

[continues previous] that shal ben to me in stede of reste; sin it is nat to douten of
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 4: 66

or compelleth any of thilke thinges to ben don so?'
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 4: 67

Boece. 'Nay,' quod I; 'for in ydel and in veyn were al the
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 6: 153

Boece. 'What is this to seyn thanne,' quod I, 'that thinges ne
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 6: 154

ben nat necessarie by hir propre nature, so as they comen in alle
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 15

that torments of felonyes pressen and confounden goode folk, and
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 2: 6

'First,' quod she, 'thou most nedes knowen, that goode folk [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 2: 7

ben alwey stronge and mighty, and the shrewes ben feble and [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 2: 94

thinges that I have graunted; that nedes gode folk moten ben [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 2: 95

mighty, and shrewes feeble and unmighty.' [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 3: 3

[continues previous] this sheweth it wel, that to goode folk ne lakketh never-mo hir [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 3: 4

[continues previous] medes, ne shrewes lakken never-mo torments. For of alle thinges [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 3: 5

[continues previous] that ben y-doon, thilke thing, for which any-thing is don, it semeth [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 3: 14

cleped good. For which thing, folk of goode maneres, hir medes [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Metre 4: 13

men? Love rightfully goode folk, and have pitee on shrewes.' [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 4: 70

'Have we nat thanne graunted,' quod she, 'that goode folk [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 4: 71

ben blisful, and shrewes ben wrecches?' [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 16

shrewes ravisshen medes of vertu, and ben in honours and in
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Metre 4: 9

were in swiche honours as ben yeven by vicious shrewes?
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 2: 7

[continues previous] ben alwey stronge and mighty, and the shrewes ben feble and
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 2: 94

[continues previous] thinges that I have graunted; that nedes gode folk moten ben
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 2: 95

[continues previous] mighty, and shrewes feeble and unmighty.'
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 3: 4

[continues previous] medes, ne shrewes lakken never-mo torments. For of alle thinges
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 3: 14

[continues previous] cleped good. For which thing, folk of goode maneres, hir medes
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Metre 4: 13

[continues previous] men? Love rightfully goode folk, and have pitee on shrewes.'
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 4: 71

[continues previous] ben blisful, and shrewes ben wrecches?'
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 17

gret estats. And I desyre eek for to witen of thee, what semeth
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Consolatione Philosophie 1 Prose 4: 92

chasen hem out of the toune. Now what thing, semeth thee, [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 1 Prose 4: 93

mighte ben lykned to this crueltee? For certes, thilke same day [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 4: 110

that the mowinge of shrewes, which mowinge thee semeth to ben [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 18

thee to ben the resoun of this so wrongful a conclusioun? For I
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Canon's Yeoman's Tale: 49

And ye him knewe as wel as do I, [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 1 Prose 4: 92

[continues previous] chasen hem out of the toune. Now what thing, semeth thee,
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Consolatione Philosophie 1 Prose 4: 93

[continues previous] mighte ben lykned to this crueltee? For certes, thilke same day
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 4: 110

[continues previous] that the mowinge of shrewes, which mowinge thee semeth to ben
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 19

wolde wondre wel the lasse, yif I trowede that al thise thinges
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Canon's Yeoman's Tale: 49

[continues previous] And ye him knewe as wel as do I,
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Canon's Yeoman's Tale: 50

[continues previous] Ye wolde wondre how wel and craftily
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Consolatione Philosophie 1 Prose 4: 19

by the mouth of Plato, this sentence, that is to seyn, that comune [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 1 Prose 4: 20

thinges or comunalitees weren blisful, yif they that hadden studied [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 1 Prose 6: 10

certein thinges sholde be moeved by fortunous fortune; but I [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 10: 142

'Yif alle thise thinges,' quod she, 'weren membres to felicitee, [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 4: 68

effect of craft, yif that alle thinges weren moeved by constreininge;' [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 20

weren medled by fortunous happe; but now hepeth and encreseth
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Consolatione Philosophie 1 Prose 4: 20

[continues previous] thinges or comunalitees weren blisful, yif they that hadden studied
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Consolatione Philosophie 1 Prose 6: 10

[continues previous] certein thinges sholde be moeved by fortunous fortune; but I
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 10: 142

[continues previous] 'Yif alle thise thinges,' quod she, 'weren membres to felicitee,
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 4: 68

[continues previous] effect of craft, yif that alle thinges weren moeved by constreininge;'
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 21

myn astonyinge god, governour of thinges, that, so as god
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Knight's Tale: 394

Of purveyaunce of God, or of fortune, [continues next]
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Knight's Tale: 395

That yeveth hem ful ofte in many a gyse [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 1: 13

me. But this same is, namely, a right greet cause of my sorwe,
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 1: 14

so as the governour of thinges is good, yif that yveles mowen ben
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 22

yeveth ofte tymes to gode men godes and mirthes, and to shrewes
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Knight's Tale: 395

[continues previous] That yeveth hem ful ofte in many a gyse
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 23

yveles and aspre thinges: and yeveth ayeinward to gode folk hardnesses,
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 1: 36

whos regne I speke, that certes the gode folk ben alwey mighty, [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 2: 94

thinges that I have graunted; that nedes gode folk moten ben [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 6: 128

swiche folk as they demen to ben gode folk or shrewes, that [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 6: 190

aspre and sorwful thinges. And many othre folk han bought
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 6: 203

the torments. And the prosperitee that is yeven to shrewes [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 6: 204

sheweth a greet argument to gode folk, what thing they sholde [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 6: 220

cause of continuacioun and exercysinge to gode folk and cause of [continues next]
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torment to shrewes. For so as ther nis non alyaunce by-twixe [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 6: 222

gode folk and shrewes, ne shrewes ne mowen nat acorden amonges [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 7: 74

seyn, good or yvel. For alle fortune that semeth sharp or aspre,
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 7: 75

yif it ne exercyse nat the gode folk ne chastyseth the wikked folk, it
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 24

and to shrewes he graunteth hem hir wil and that they
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Knight's Tale: 970

And he hem graunteth grace, and thus he seyde:
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Knight's Tale: 971

'To speke of royal linage and richesse,
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 1: 37

[continues previous] and shrewes ben alwey out-cast and feble; ne the vyces ne ben
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 2: 95

[continues previous] mighty, and shrewes feeble and unmighty.'
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 6: 128

[continues previous] swiche folk as they demen to ben gode folk or shrewes, that
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[continues previous] the torments. And the prosperitee that is yeven to shrewes
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 6: 204

[continues previous] sheweth a greet argument to gode folk, what thing they sholde
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 6: 220

[continues previous] cause of continuacioun and exercysinge to gode folk and cause of
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[continues previous] torment to shrewes. For so as ther nis non alyaunce by-twixe
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 6: 222

[continues previous] gode folk and shrewes, ne shrewes ne mowen nat acorden amonges
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 26

god doth, and the happe of fortune, yif men ne knowe nat the
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Merchant's Tale: 197

I dote nat, I woot the cause why [continues next]
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Merchant's Tale: 198

Men sholde wedde, and forthermore wot I, [continues next]
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Melibee's Tale: 23

... the conseilling of thyne olde enemys that been reconsiled. The book seith: that "no wight retourneth saufly in-to the grace of his olde enemy." And Isope seith: "ne trust nat to hem to whiche thou hast had som-tyme werre or enmitee, ne telle hem nat thy conseil." And Seneca telleth the cause why. "It may nat be," seith he, "that, where greet fyr hath longe tyme endured, that ther ne dwelleth som vapour of warmnesse." And therfore seith Salomon: "in thyn olde foo trust never." For sikerly, though thyn enemy be reconsiled and maketh thee chere of humilitee, and louteth to thee with his heed, ne ... [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 2 Metre 7: 18

outrely unknowable; ne fame ne maketh yow nat knowe. And
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Consolatione Philosophie 2 Metre 7: 19

yif ye wene to liven the longer for winde of your mortal name,
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 10: 162

thogh that thinges by hir nature ne ben nat goode, algates, yif [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 10: 163

men wene that ben goode, yit ben they desired as though that [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Metre 5: 1

Who-so that ne knowe nat the sterres of Arcture, y-torned neigh
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Metre 5: 8

And eek, yif that he ne knowe nat why that the hornes of the fulle [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 30

ordre is unknowe. But al-though that thou ne knowe nat the [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 31

cause of so greet a disposicioun, natheles, for as moche as god, [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 3: 142

beseken it and impetren it. And yif men wene nat that hope ne [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 3: 143

preyeres ne han no strengthes, by the necessitee of thinges to [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 5: 56

thou arguest and seyst thus: that yif it ne seme nat to men that [continues next]
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cause why that it is?'
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Merchant's Tale: 197

[continues previous] I dote nat, I woot the cause why
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Melibee's Tale: 23

[continues previous] ... conseilling of thyne olde enemys that been reconsiled. The book seith: that "no wight retourneth saufly in-to the grace of his olde enemy." And Isope seith: "ne trust nat to hem to whiche thou hast had som-tyme werre or enmitee, ne telle hem nat thy conseil." And Seneca telleth the cause why. "It may nat be," seith he, "that, where greet fyr hath longe tyme endured, that ther ne dwelleth som vapour of warmnesse." And therfore seith Salomon: "in thyn olde foo trust never." For sikerly, though thyn enemy be reconsiled and maketh thee chere of humilitee, and louteth to thee with his ...
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Consolatione Philosophie 1 Prose 2: 14

she; 'he is fallen into a litargie, whiche that is a comune sykenes [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 9: 29

'Certes,' quod I, 'it nis no doute, that it is right worthy to [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 10: 163

[continues previous] men wene that ben goode, yit ben they desired as though that
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 4: 8

'Certes,' quod she, 'ne is nis nat leveful to hem, as I shal wel [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Metre 5: 8

[continues previous] And eek, yif that he ne knowe nat why that the hornes of the fulle [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 30

[continues previous] ordre is unknowe. But al-though that thou ne knowe nat the [continues next]
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[continues previous] cause of so greet a disposicioun, natheles, for as moche as god, [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 3: 142

[continues previous] beseken it and impetren it. And yif men wene nat that hope ne
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 5: 56

[continues previous] thou arguest and seyst thus: that yif it ne seme nat to men that
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 28

'Ne it nis no mervaile,' quod she, 'though that men wenen that
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Consolatione Philosophie 1 Prose 2: 13

[continues previous] hand softely upon my brest, and seide: 'Here nis no peril,' quod
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Consolatione Philosophie 1 Prose 2: 14

[continues previous] she; 'he is fallen into a litargie, whiche that is a comune sykenes
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Consolatione Philosophie 2 Prose 8: 1

'But for as mochel as thou shalt nat wenen', quod she, 'that I
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 3: 59

'Than is this thinge torned in-to the contrarye,' quod she.
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 3: 60

'For richesses, that men wenen sholde make suffisaunce, they
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 9: 29

[continues previous] 'Certes,' quod I, 'it nis no doute, that it is right worthy to
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 2: 64

And over this quod she, 'yif that ther be two thinges that [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 4: 8

[continues previous] 'Certes,' quod she, 'ne is nis nat leveful to hem, as I shal wel
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 4: 9

[continues previous] shewe thee in covenable place; but natheles, yif so were that thilke [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 4: 10

that men wenen be leveful to shrewes were binomen hem, so that [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Metre 5: 8

[continues previous] And eek, yif that he ne knowe nat why that the hornes of the fulle
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 30

[continues previous] ordre is unknowe. But al-though that thou ne knowe nat the
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 29

ther be somewhat folissh and confuse, whan the resoun of the
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 2: 64

[continues previous] And over this quod she, 'yif that ther be two thinges that
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 4: 10

[continues previous] that men wenen be leveful to shrewes were binomen hem, so that
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 6: 238

departeth fro the resoun of thilke ordre which that is assigned to [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 30

ordre is unknowe. But al-though that thou ne knowe nat the
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Consolatione Philosophie 2 Prose 4: 101

ne may nat beneme it thee. And that thou mayst knowe that
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Consolatione Philosophie 2 Prose 4: 102

blisfulnesse ne may nat standen in thinges that ben fortunous
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Metre 8: 15

that hem ne reccheth nat to knowe where thilke goodes ben [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Metre 5: 1

Who-so that ne knowe nat the sterres of Arcture, y-torned neigh [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Metre 5: 8

And eek, yif that he ne knowe nat why that the hornes of the fulle [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 26

god doth, and the happe of fortune, yif men ne knowe nat the [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 28

'Ne it nis no mervaile,' quod she, 'though that men wenen that [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 6: 238

[continues previous] departeth fro the resoun of thilke ordre which that is assigned to
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 5: 31

cause of so greet a disposicioun, natheles, for as moche as god,
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Metre 8: 14

[continues previous] that highten echines. But folk suffren hem-self to ben so blinde,
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 1: 13

me. But this same is, namely, a right greet cause of my sorwe,
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 1: 14

so as the governour of thinges is good, yif that yveles mowen ben
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Metre 5: 1

[continues previous] Who-so that ne knowe nat the sterres of Arcture, y-torned neigh
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[continues previous] And eek, yif that he ne knowe nat why that the hornes of the fulle
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[continues previous] god doth, and the happe of fortune, yif men ne knowe nat the
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the gode governour, atempreth and governeth the world, ne doute
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ne doutedest nat that they nere governed by resoun. But owh! [continues next]
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blisfulnesse ne may nat standen in thinges that ben fortunous [continues next]
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ne ben nat weyes ne pathes that bringen men to blisfulnesse, [continues next]
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to ben moeved; ne foreine causes necesseden thee never to [continues next]
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good is in him. For yif god ne is swich, he ne may nat ben [continues next]
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nothing nis more worth. For alwey, of alle thinges, the nature [continues next]
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of hem ne may nat ben bettre than his biginning; for which [continues next]
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thogh that thinges by hir nature ne ben nat goode, algates, yif [continues next]
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but-yif alle thise thinges ben alle oon same thing, they ne han nat [continues next]
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alle thinges, he sholde seen that, with-oute doute, every thing is [continues next]
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'Certes,' quod she, 'ne ther-of thar thee nat doute. Now [continues next]
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songes that hadden overcomen alle thinges ne mighten nat [continues next]
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ther nis no wight that may merveylen y-nough, ne compleine, [continues next]
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woot and alle thinges may, and ne wole nat but only gode [continues next]
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so grete thinges; ne I ne doute nat that thou ne mayst wel [continues next]
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don yvele thinges ne mowen nat alle thinges: thanne is it open [continues next]
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dredeth thinges that ne oughten nat to ben dred, men shal holden [continues next]
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is lyke a merveil or a miracle to hem that ne knowen it nat), why that [continues next]
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by adversitees; and of alle thinges ther nis no doute, that [continues next]
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they ne ben don rightfully and ordenely, to the profit of hem to [continues next]
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they demen that tho thinges ne sholden nat han ben don. For [continues next]
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alle thinges from an heigh, ne withstondeth nat no thinges by [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Metre 3: 23

elles, he ne coude nat desire it. Or who may folwen thinges that ne [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 3: 7

of libertee. For yif so be that god loketh alle thinges biforn, ne [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 3: 8

god ne may nat ben desseived in no manere, than mot it nedes [continues next]
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necessitee slydeth ayein in-to the contrarye partye: ne it ne [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 4: 55

that the thinges ne bityden nat that ben y-purveyed to comen? [continues next]
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facultee or power of thinges that ben y-knowe? Ne that nis nat [continues next]
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avyse the prescience, by which it knoweth alle thinges, thou ne [continues next]
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devyne lookinge, biholdinge alle thinges under him, ne troubleth [continues next]
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nat the qualitee of thinges that ben certeinly present to him-ward; [continues next]
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with-oute doute, alle the thinges shollen ben doon which that [continues next]
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Boece. 'What is this to seyn thanne,' quod I, 'that thinges ne [continues next]
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alle thinges, god ne hath nat taken it of the bitydinge of thinges [continues next]
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thee nat that alle thinges ben doon a-right.
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Wher dremes ben somtyme (I sey nat alle)
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Warning of thinges that shul after falle.
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[continues previous] put out of the cure of god. For of alle other thinges thou
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[continues previous] ne doutedest nat that they nere governed by resoun. But owh!
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Consolatione Philosophie 1 Prose 6: 33

'Certes,' quod she, 'thou wost wel whennes that alle thinges
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ben comen and procedeth?'
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[continues previous] blisfulnesse ne may nat standen in thinges that ben fortunous
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kepeth the grete world; and how she, bindinge, restreyneth alle
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thinges by a bonde that may nat ben unbounde. Al be it so that
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[continues previous] ben nat parfit by the congregacioun of alle goodes; that they
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[continues previous] ne ben nat weyes ne pathes that bringen men to blisfulnesse,
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[continues previous] thy-self ay stedefast and stable, and yevest alle othre thinges
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[continues previous] to ben moeved; ne foreine causes necesseden thee never to
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 10: 34

[continues previous] good is in him. For yif god ne is swich, he ne may nat ben
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[continues previous] prince of alle thinges; for certes som-thing possessing in it-self
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 10: 38

we han shewed apertly that alle thinges that ben parfit ben
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first or thinges that ben unparfit; and for-thy, for as moche as
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[continues previous] nothing nis more worth. For alwey, of alle thinges, the nature
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[continues previous] of hem ne may nat ben bettre than his biginning; for which
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and brought to soverein good, right as alle thinges that ben brought
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 10: 146

'Certes,' quod I, 'it hath wel ben shewed heer-biforn, that alle
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 10: 147

thise thinges ben alle o thing.'
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'This is open and cleer,' quod she, 'that alle othre thinges ben
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[continues previous] thogh that thinges by hir nature ne ben nat goode, algates, yif
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to ryden, as the effect of his hele. Now thanne, sin that
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alle thinges ben requered for the grace of good, they ne ben nat
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[continues previous] but-yif alle thise thinges ben alle oon same thing, they ne han nat
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[continues previous] alle thinges, he sholde seen that, with-oute doute, every thing is
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 11: 71

[continues previous] 'Certes,' quod she, 'ne ther-of thar thee nat doute. Now
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Metre 12: 11

[continues previous] songes that hadden overcomen alle thinges ne mighten nat
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 12: 34

And thilke thing, what-so-ever it be, by which that alle thinges
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 12: 35

ben y-maked and y-lad, I clepe him "god"; that is a word that
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[continues previous] that swiche thinges ben doon in the regne of god, that alle thinges
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[continues previous] woot and alle thinges may, and ne wole nat but only gode
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[continues previous] so grete thinges; ne I ne doute nat that thou ne mayst wel
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[continues previous] performe that thou bihetest. But I preye thee only this, that
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geteth and ateyneth to the ende of alle thinges that ben to desire,
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the comune fyn of alle thinges that ben, they forleten also therwith-al
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[continues previous] don yvele thinges ne mowen nat alle thinges: thanne is it open
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that alle thinges, that oughten ben desired, ben referred to good,
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medes, ne shrewes lakken never-mo torments. For of alle thinges
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 3: 5

that ben y-doon, thilke thing, for which any-thing is don, it semeth
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that alle thinges ben doon. Thanne is thilke same good purposed
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[continues previous] dredeth thinges that ne oughten nat to ben dred, men shal holden
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me,' quod she, 'to telle thing that is grettest of alle thinges that
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 6: 8

mowen ben axed, and to the whiche questioun unnethes is ther
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that is destinee. For which it is, that alle thinges that ben put
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under destinee ben, certes, subgits to purviaunce, to whiche purviaunce
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[continues previous] is lyke a merveil or a miracle to hem that ne knowen it nat), why that
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[continues previous] swete thinges ben covenable to some bodies that ben hole, and to
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[continues previous] have yeven ensaumple to othre folk, that vertu may nat ben overcomen
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 6: 194

[continues previous] by adversitees; and of alle thinges ther nis no doute, that
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 6: 195

[continues previous] they ne ben don rightfully and ordenely, to the profit of hem to
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Consolatione Philosophie 4 Prose 6: 226

[continues previous] they demen that tho thinges ne sholden nat han ben don. For
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of alle thinges that may ben thought.'
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[continues previous] alle thinges from an heigh, ne withstondeth nat no thinges by
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Metre 2: 8

the blake cloudes. Thilke god seeth, in oo strok of thought, alle
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Metre 2: 9

thinges that ben, or weren, or sholle comen; and thilke god, for
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[continues previous] elles, he ne coude nat desire it. Or who may folwen thinges that ne
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Metre 3: 24

[continues previous] ben nat y-wist? And thogh that he seke tho thinges, wher shal he
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 3: 7

[continues previous] of libertee. For yif so be that god loketh alle thinges biforn, ne
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 3: 8

[continues previous] god ne may nat ben desseived in no manere, than mot it nedes
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 3: 28

[continues previous] bihoveth nat, nedes, that thinges bityden that ben purvyed, but
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 3: 91

seyth, indifferently, that thinges mowen ben doon or elles nat
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 3: 132

destinee, which that ne may nat ben inclyned, knitteth and streineth
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alle thinges that men may desiren? Thanne sholde ther be doon
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[continues previous] that the thinges ne bityden nat that ben y-purveyed to comen?
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 4: 125

comprehended the forme, it knoweth and demeth alle the thinges
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that ben under that forme. But she knoweth hem in thilke manere
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[continues previous] facultee or power of thinges that ben y-knowe? Ne that nis nat
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[continues previous] avyse the prescience, by which it knoweth alle thinges, thou ne
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[continues previous] shal nat demen it as prescience of thinges to comen, but thou
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Why axestow thanne, or why desputestow thanne, that thilke
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thinges ben doon by necessitee whiche that ben y-seyn and
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[continues previous] devyne lookinge, biholdinge alle thinges under him, ne troubleth
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 6: 108

[continues previous] nat the qualitee of thinges that ben certeinly present to him-ward;
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 6: 147

[continues previous] with-oute doute, alle the thinges shollen ben doon which that
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 6: 153

[continues previous] Boece. 'What is this to seyn thanne,' quod I, 'that thinges ne
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[continues previous] ben nat necessarie by hir propre nature, so as they comen in alle
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[continues previous] alle thinges, god ne hath nat taken it of the bitydinge of thinges
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Treatise on the Astrolabe Prologue: 1

... the conclusiouns that han ben founde, or elles possibly mighten be founde in so noble an instrument as an Astrolabie, ben un-knowe perfitly to any mortal man in this regioun, as I suppose. A-nother cause is this; that sothly, in any tretis of the Astrolabie that I have seyn, there ben some conclusions that wole nat in alle thinges performen hir bihestes; and some of hem ben to harde to thy tendre age of ten yeer to conseyve. This tretis, divided in fyve parties, wole I shewe thee under ful lighte rewles and naked wordes in English; for Latin ne canstow yit but smal, my lyte sone. But natheles, ...