The epistle of Othea to Hector; or, The boke of knyghthodeChristine, de Pisan
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The epistle of Othea to Hector; or, The boke of knyghthode
Christine, de Pisan
Fastolf, John, 1378?-1459; French poetry -- To 1500 -- Translations into English
_Sc._ allege, take example from; Et pour donner materiel exemple de
force, allegue Hercules, H.
Footnote 142:
_Sc._ high; by, MS; hault exemple, H.
Footnote 143:
_Sc._ fought.
Footnote 144:
A leaf is here missing from the MS.
Footnote 145:
The complete “texte” in H. runs:—
Encor se veulx estre des noz,
Ressembler te couuient Minos,
Tout soit il iusticier et maistres
Denfer et de tous li estres.
Car se tu te veulx auancier,
Estre te couuient iusticier,
Autrement de porter heaume
Nes digne ne tenir royaume.
Footnote 146:
En Crete, H.
Footnote 147:
Fierte, H.
Footnote 148:
De adventu Domini Sermo iii. (Migne, clxxxiii. 45), but the passage is
not literally translated.
Footnote 149:
Sa non puissance, H.
Footnote 150:
Chastisyng in chastisyng, MS.; garde et discipline, garde en le
gardant de mal faire et discipline en le chastiant se il a mal fait,
H.
Footnote 151:
Prov. xxi. 12, 15.
Footnote 152:
Apres te mire en Perseus, H., and so below; _cf._ Ovid, Met. iv., 610
sq.
Footnote 153:
Belue, H.; monstre, Wyer.
Footnote 154:
Chose couuenable, H.
Footnote 155:
_Sc._ won; il acquist, H.
Footnote 156:
_Sc._ should have; deuourer la deuoit, H.
Footnote 157:
_Sc._ flyeth; qui vole, H.
Footnote 158:
Many, MS.
Footnote 159:
Omitted in MS.; le porte, H.
Footnote 160:
Sermo ccclv., de vita et moribus clericorum (Migne, xxxix. 1569).
Footnote 161:
A bien viure, H.
Footnote 162:
Pour soy, H.; conscientia tibi, fama proximo tuo, S. Aug. The
translator evidently read “foy.”
Footnote 163:
Eccl. xli. 15.
Footnote 164:
_Sc._ the planet Jupiter; Joyus, MS.; de iouis les condicions, H.
Footnote 165:
Jābir ibn Aflah, an Arab astronomer of uncertain date, whose work on
Astronomy was published in Latin, in nine books, at Nuremberg in 1534.
A 15th century MS. of it is in the British Museum, Harley MS. 625.
Footnote 166:
Perhaps Nicholas of Lynne, a Carmelite who lived in the latter part of
the 14th century, and whose astronomical tables were used by Chaucer
in his “Astrolabe.” Among other works he wrote tracts “de natura
Zodiaci” and “de Planetarum domibus” (Tanner, _Bibliotheca_, p. 346).
Footnote 167:
Et est figuree a la compleccion sanguine, H.
Footnote 168:
_Sc._ Pythagoras.
Footnote 169:
Doulce et humaine, H.
Footnote 170:
A Nepocian, H. The passage does not appear to be among the works of
St. Gregory, nor in St. Jerome’s epistle to Nepotianus.
Footnote 171:
Matt. v. 7.
Footnote 172:
Traueilleux, H.
Footnote 173:
_Sc._ Hermes Trismegistus.
Footnote 174:
An unintelligible corruption; fist lange deuenir deable, H. and other
Fr. MSS.; doth [make] the aungell to become a devyll, Wyer; superbia
est per quam angelus cecidit, per quam Adam de naturæ suæ dignitate
dejectus est, Cass. Exp. in Psalterium (Migne, lxx. 843).
Footnote 175:
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