¶ Prynses .I. prey yow of yowre gentilesses
Lat nat this man on me thus crye and pleyne
And .I. shal quyte yow yowre bysynesse
At my requeste as thre of yow or tweyne [76]
Þat but yow lest releue hym of hys peyne
Preyeth hys best frend of his noblesse
That to som betere estat he may attayne
The following section contains the text alone of Chaucer’s translation of De Consolatione Philosophiae, without the editor’s annotations. It is followed by the [Glossarial Index].