788 _feiþful_--feythfulle _goþ_--MS. goþe _aweye_--awey 790 _mans_--mannys 791 _when_--wan _þing_--thinge 793 _suffriþ_--suffiseth 794 _of þing_--on thynge _byforne_--MS. byforne byforne _man_--a man 795 _mesureþ_--amesureth 796 _from one_--fram oon _seyne_--seyn 797 _fro_--from _to_--into 799 _atte þe last_--at the laste] [Headnote: PHILOSOPHY EXPOSTULATES WITH BOETHIUS.] [Sidenote: If you submit to her yoke you must patiently endure her inflictions.] ¶ Syþen þou hast oones put þi nekke vnder þe ȝokke of hir. for if þou wilt write a lawe of wendyng {and} of dwellyng to fortune whiche þat þou hast chosen frely 804 to be þi lady [Sidenote: Impatience will only embitter your loss.] ¶ Art þou nat wrongful in þat {and} makest fortune wroþe {and} asp{er}e by þin inpacience. {and} ȝit þou mayst not chaungen hir. [Sidenote: You cannot choose your port if you leave your vessel to the mercy of the winds.] ¶ Yif þou co{m}mittest [{and}] bitakest þi sayles to þe wynde. þou shalt 808 be shouen not þider þat þou woldest(:) but whider þat þe wy{n}de shoueþ þe ¶ Yif þou castest þi seedes in þe feldes þou sholdest haue in mynde þat þe ȝeres ben oþer while plenteuous {and} oþ{er} while bareyne. [Sidenote: You have given yourself up to Fortune; it becomes you therefore to obey her commands.] ¶ Þou 812 hast bytaken þiself to þe gouernaunce of fortune. {and} forþi it byhoueþ þe to ben obeisaunt to þe manere of þi lady. [Sidenote: Would you stop the rolling of her wheel?] and enforcest þou þe to aresten or wiþstonden þe swyftnesse {and} þe sweyes of hir to{ur}nyng 816 whele. [Sidenote: Fool! if Fortune once became stable she would cease to exist.] ¶ O þou fool of alle mortel fooles if fortune bygan to dwelle stable. she cesed[e] þan to ben fortune. [Linenotes: 801 _seyne_--seyn _worlde_--world 802 _Syþen_--Syn _ȝokke_--yok{e} 803 _if_--yif _write_--wryten 804 _whiche_--which 805 _lady_--ladye _Art þou_--Artow 806 _wroþe_--wroth _þin_--thine 807 _chaungen_--chaunge 808 [_and_]--from C. 809 _þider_--thedyr _whider_--whedyr 811 _haue_--han 814 _manere_--maneres 815 {and}--omitted _wiþstonden_--withholden 816 _sweyes_--sweyȝ 818 _cesed[e]_--cesede] [[pg 33]] [Headnote: THE INCONSTANCY OF FORTUNE.] HEC CUM SUPERBA. [Sidenote: [The fyrst met{ur}.] [Sidenote: Fortune is as inconstant as the ebb and flow of Euripus.]