[Sidenote: It will be effaced by conquering Time, so that death will be doubly victorious.] _Glosa._ þe first deeþ he clepiþ 1636 here þe dep{ar}tynge of þe body {and} þe soule. ¶ and [[pg 61]] þe secunde deeþ he clepeþ as here. þe styntynge of þe renoune of fame.[3] [Linenotes: 1615 _Lete_--Lat _loke_--looken 1616 _sete_--Cyte 1617 _be_--ben 1619 _vpon_--vp 1620 _and dedely_--in the dedly 1621 _y-spradde_--ysprad [_þat_]--from C. _ferne_--MS. serue, C. ferne _goþ_--MS. goþe, C. goth 1622 {and} (2)--or 1623 _shyne_--shynen _clere_--cler 1624 _al_--alle 1626 _heyest[e]_--heyoste _lowest[e]_--loweste 1628 _stiern_--MS. sciern, C. stierne 1632 _consumpt_--{con}sumpte 1634 _lenger_--longer{e} 1637 _þe_ (1)--omitted 1639 _renoune_--renou{n}] [Footnote 3: The next three chapters are from the Camb. MS.] [Headnote: ADVERSE FORTUNE IS BENEFICIAL.] [SET NE ME INEXORABILE CONTRA. [Sidenote: [The viij p{ro}se.]] [Sidenote: ‘But do not believe,’ said Philosophy, ‘that I am an implacable enemy to Fortune.] ++BVt for-as-mochel as thow shalt nat wenen q{uod} she 1640 þ{a}t I bere vntretable batayle ayenis fortune // [Sidenote: This inconstant dame sometimes deserves well of men, when she appears in her true colours.] yit som-tyme it by-falleth þ{a}t she desseyuable desserueth to han ryht good thank of men // {And} þ{a}t is whan she hir{e} self opneth / {and} whan she descou{er}eth hir frownt / 1644 {and} sheweth hir maneres p{ar}-auentur{e} yit vndirstondesthow nat þ{a}t .I. shal seye // [Sidenote: And what I say may perhaps appear paradoxical.] it is a wondyr þ{a}t .I. desyr{e} to telle / [Sidenote: That is, that adverse fortune is more beneficial than prosperous fortune.] {and} forthi vnnethe may I. vnpleyten my sentense w{i}t{h} wordes for I. deme þ{a}t contraryos fortune 1648 p{ro}fiteth mor{e} to men than fortune debonayr{e} // [Sidenote: The latter lies and deceives us, the former displays her natural inconstancy.] For al-wey whan fortune semeth debonayr{e} than she lyeth falsly in by-hetynge the hope of welefulnesse // but forsothe {con}traryos fortune is alwey sothfast / whan she 1652 sheweth hir self vnstable thorw hyr chau{n}gynge // [Sidenote: That deceives us, this instructs us; that, by a fallacious show of good, enslaves the mind; this, by the knowledge of her fickleness, frees and absolves it.] the amyable fortune desseyueth folk / the contrarye fortune techeth // the amyable fortune byndeth w{i}t{h} the beaute of false goodys the hertes of folk þ{a}t vsen he{m} / the 1656 contrarye fortune vnbyndeth he{m} by þ^e knowynge of freele welefulnesse //