Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 — Boethius and Troilus

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Da fontem lustrare boni, da luce reperta

In te conspicuos animi defigere uisus.'

[24]. cartes, vehicles; the bodies which contain the souls.

[34]. berer: 'uector, dux, semita, terminus idem.'

Prose 10. [8]. for that veyn, in order that vain, &c.

[11]. ne is, exists. We should now drop the negative after 'deny.' nis right as, is precisely as.

[12]. is proeved: 'id imminutione perfecti imperfectum esse perhibetur.'

[14]. in every thing general: 'in quolibet genere.'

[21]. descendeth: 'in haec extrema atque effeta dilabitur.' Cf. Kn. Ta. 3003-10.

[31, 2]. that nothing nis bettre, i.e. than whom nothing is better. So below (l. 70) we have—'that nothing nis more worth.'