Full wonder _blisseful was_ that rather _age_, When mortal men couthe _holde hem_-selven[22] _payed_ To fede hem-selve[23] with-oute suche _outerage_, _With mete that trewe feeldes_[24] have arrayed; _With acorne[s] thaire hunger_ was alayed, And so thei couthe sese thaire talent; Thei had[den] yit no queynt[e] craft assayed, As _clarry_ for to _make_ ne _pyment_[25]. _To de[y]en purpure couthe thei noght_ be-thynke, _The white flees, with venym Tyryen_; _The rennyng_ ryver yaf hem lusty drynke, And _holsom sleep the[y]_ took _vpon the_ grene. _The pynes_, that so full of braunches been, That was thaire hous, to kepe[n] _vnder schade_. _The see[26] to kerve_ no _schippes_ were there seen; Ther was no man that _marchaundise_ made. They liked not to sailen vp and doun, But kepe hem-selven[27] where thei weren bred; _Tho was ful huscht the cruel clarioun_, For _eger hate_ ther was _no blood I-sched_, Ne therwith was non _armour_ yet be-bled; _For_ in that tyme who durst have be so _wood_ Suche bitter _woundes_ that he nold have dred, With-outen réward, for to lese his _blood_. _I wold oure tyme_ myght _turne_ certanly, And wise[28] _maneres_ alwey with vs dwelle; _But love of hauyng brenneth_ feruently, _More_ fersere _than the_ verray _fuyre_ of helle. _Allas!_ who _was_ that man _that_ wold him melle With[29] _gold and_ gemmes that were _kevered_ thus[30], _That first_ began to myne; I can not telle, But that he fond _a perel[31] precious_. § 16. MS. Auct. F. 3. 5, in the Bodleian Library, contains a _prose_ translation, different from Chaucer's. After this, the next translation seems to be one by George Colvile; the title is thus given by Lowndes: 'Boetius de Consolatione Philosophiæ, translated by George Coluile, alias Coldewel. London: by John Cawoode; 1556. 4to.' This work was dedicated to Queen Mary, and reprinted in 1561; and again, without date. There is an unprinted translation, in hexameters and other metres, in the British Museum (MS. Addit. 11401), by Bracegirdle, temp. Elizabeth. See Warton, ed. Hazlitt, iii. 39, note 6. Lowndes next mentions a translation by J. T., printed at London in 1609, 12mo. A translation 'Anglo-Latine expressus per S. E. M.' was printed at London in quarto, in 1654, according to Hazlitt's Hand-book to Popular Literature. Next, a translation into English verse by H. Conningesbye, in 1664, 12mo. The next is thus described: 'Of the Consolation of Philosophy, made English and illustrated with Notes by the Right Hon. Richard (Graham) Lord Viscount Preston. London; 1695, 8vo. Second edition, corrected; London; 1712, 8vo.' A translation by W. Causton was printed in London in 1730; 8vo. A translation by the Rev. Philip Ridpath, printed in London in 1785, 8vo., is described by Lowndes as 'an excellent translation with very useful notes, and a life of Boethius, drawn up with great accuracy and fidelity.'