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
These words are at the bottom of f. 34b, after which there is a lacuna
of a whole quire. The story in H. goes on “le lyon qui sus ot vomy
lentraille dune beste quil ot deuouree. Oultre mesure fu grande la
douleur de Piramus, qui cuida samie deuouree des fieres bestes; donc
apres moult piteux reclaims soccist de son espee. Tisbee sailli du
buisson, mais quant elle entent les sanglos de son ami qui mouroit et
elle voit lespee et le sanc, adonc par grant douleur sus son ami chay,
qui a elle parler ne pot, et apres plusieurs grans plains, regrais et
pasmoisons soccist de la mesmes espee.” The mythological personages
dealt with in the missing pages are Æsculapius, Achilles, Busiris,
Leander, Helen, Aurora, Pasiphae, Adrastus, Cupid, Corinis, and Juno.
Footnote 315:
The preceding “texte” and “glose” in H. are as follows:—
De Iuno ia trop ne te chaille,
Se le noyel mieulx que leschaille
Donneur desires a auoir,
Car mieulx vault proece quauoir.
Iuno est la deesse dauoir selon les fables des poetes, et pour ce que
auoir et richece couuient auoir et acquerir a grant soing et traueil
et que tel soing peut destourner a honneur acquerre et comme honneur
et vaillance soit plus louable que richeces de tant comme la noyel
vault mieulx que leschaille, _etc._
Footnote 316:
Slelle, MS.
Footnote 317:
_Sc._ one hump on the back.
Footnote 318:
Matt. xix. 24.
Footnote 319:
Amphiaraus, hero and seer, joint king of Argos with Adrastus, whose
sister Eriphyle he married. Against his own opinion he was induced by
his wife to join the expedition of the Seven against Thebes.
Footnote 320:
_Sc._ Solon, but the sentence is not under his name in the “Dicta
Philosophorum.”
Footnote 321:
What St. Gregory really says is, “Sicut carni vestræ, ne deficiat,
cibos quotidie præbetis, sic mentis vestræ quotidiana alimenta bona
sunt opera. Cibo corpus pascitur, pio opere spiritus nutriatur,” Hom.
v. in Evang. (Migne, lxxvi. 1092).
Footnote 322:
Worde ye here the which, MS.
Footnote 323:
Matt. iv. 4.
Footnote 324:
See p. 19.
Footnote 325:
Ne chose dont vn puist _presumer_ folie, H.
Footnote 326:
_Sc._ discretion; lente de parler, H.
Footnote 327:
Couuercle, H.
Footnote 328:
Fro, MS.; qui garde sa lengue il garde son ame, car la mort et la vie
sont en la puissance de la lengue, H.
Footnote 329:
Ps. xxxiii. 14.
Footnote 330:
The “texte” in H. is:—
Croy la corneille et son conseil.
Jamais ne soyes en esueil
De male nouuelle apporter;
Le plus seur est sen depporter.
Footnote 331:
He, MS.
Footnote 332:
Hym, MS.
Footnote 333:
Literally translated, this sentence should read: “But she (the crow)
dissuaded him from going by giving him an example of herself, who for
a like case had been driven from the house of Pallas,” etc. See Ovid,
Met. ii. 542.
Footnote 334:
Se espart, H.
Footnote 335:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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