¶ 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].

LIBER PRIMUS.