Quod Love, 'I shal telle thee, this lesson to lerne. Myne owne trewe servaunt, the noble philosophical poete in Englissh, whiche evermore him besieth and travayleth right sore my name 250 to encrese (wherfore al that willen me good owe to do him worship and reverence bothe; trewly, his better ne his pere in scole of my rules coude I never fynde)--he (quod she), in a tretis that he made of my servant Troilus, hath this mater touched, and at the ful this question assoyled. Certaynly, his noble sayinges 255 can I not amende; in goodnes of gentil manliche speche, without any maner of nycetè of +storiers imaginacion, in witte and in good reson of sentence he passeth al other makers. In the boke of Troilus, the answere to thy question mayst thou lerne. Never-the-later, yet may lightly thyne understandinge somdel ben lerned, 260 if thou have knowing of these to-fornsaid thinges; with that thou have understanding of two the laste chapiters of this seconde boke, that is to say, good to be somthing, and bad to wante al maner being. For badde is nothing els but absence of good; and [as] that god in good maketh that good dedes ben good, 265 in yvel he maketh that they ben but naught, that they ben bad; for to nothing is badnesse to be [lykned].' 'I have,' quod I tho, 'ynough knowing therin; me nedeth of other thinges to here, that is to saye, how I shal come to my blisse so long desyred.' 270 CH. IV. 1. shalte. 6. subiection. 8. disposition. 9. nowe. 10. thorowe. 11. theffecte. folow. 12. fre. 13. thorowe. 14. altho. 15. howe stante. 16. thorowe. 19. the. 20-1. thorowe (_thrice_). 23. dothe. doone. 24. wyl; _read_ wilne; _see_ l. 30. 25. _I supply_ in. done. 28. thynge. 29. frewyl. maye. 30. maye. 30-1. _Some words repeated here._ 31. one. 32. whome. 33. of; _read_ or. 36. togyther; _read_ togider. 37. libertie. aforne. 39. truthe (_twice_). 40. arne. syght; _read_ seeth. 42. beforne. 43. _I supply_ that. fre. aforne. 44. _I supply_ it _and_ that. 45. frewyl discendeth (!). 46. maye. 48. libertie. the. 49. beforne. 53. shalte. * _A break here in_ Th. 59. nowe. thynge. 61. nowe. 63. one. 66. dothe. 67. reason. _I supply_ than is. thorowe. 69. thynge. 70. done. 71. haste. 72. declarations. 73-4. thorowe (_twice_). 76. displease. 78. sayne. 78-9. thorowe. 80. declaration. 82. shalte se. 83. reasons. the. 84. gone. 85-6. thee (_twice_). 89. reasone. 91. howe. 92. the. 97. heigheth; _read_ hyeth. 98. higheth; _read_ hyeth. towarde. 99. gothe. heigheth; _read_ hyeth. 100. ceasynge. 101. nowe. 102. reason. sey. 104. reasons. one. 105. thorowe. 108. list. stynt. 109. sayd. 110. gret. 111. sayenges. 112. putte. 113. length. 114. doyng; _read_ dying. some. 115. thynge. -thorowe. dethe. 116. Naye. sayeng. 119. done. 120. saithe. toforne werne. 122. wyst. sonne; _read_ sone.