The epistle of Othea to Hector; or, The boke of knyghthode

Name: The epistle of Othea to Hector; or, The boke of knyghthode
Author: Christine, de Pisan

Christine, de Pisan

Fastolf, John, 1378?-1459; French poetry -- To 1500 -- Translations into English

Sont ii. sancsues, H.; sanguisugæ, Innoc., quoting Prov. xxx. 15.
  Wyer’s version rightly has “horse-leeches”; and the reading
  “sauce-makers” is inexplicable.

Footnote 556:

  Tim. vi. 10.

Footnote 557:

  A luniversaire (_sc._ l’anniversaire) du chief de lan des obseques de
  Hector, H.; vnyuersarie, Wyer.

Footnote 558:

  Amer, H.

Footnote 559:

  In ep. Joannis ad Parthos tract. ii. (Migne, xxxv. 1994).

Footnote 560:

  Et sa concupiscence, H.

Footnote 561:

  Amer, H.

Footnote 562:

  1 Ep. Joh. ii. 15.

Footnote 563:

  Perciez doultre en oultre, H.

Footnote 564:

  _Sc._ Augustine.

Footnote 565:

  Susde, MS.; ne nul en sa force ne se doit fyer, H.

Footnote 566:

  2 Cor. iii. 4, 5; tanquam ex nobis, H.

Footnote 567:

  Lenditement, H.; exhortacion, Wyer.

Footnote 568:

  Des mauuais, H.; Barat est le cappitaine des mauuoys et ire est son
  gouuerneur, G. de Tign. (Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 39).

Footnote 569:

  iii. (les, H.) inconueniencees, MS.

Footnote 570:

  _Sc._ deny; reyne, MS.; renyer, H.

Footnote 571:

  Prov. iv. 15.

Footnote 572:

  Paix par faintise, H.

Footnote 573:

  Sa mauuaistie, H.

Footnote 574:

  Psal. xxi. 26.

Footnote 575:

  So H. and other MSS.; perhaps a corruption for Thyre or Tyre.

Footnote 576:

  _Sc._ Ptolemy; Ptholomee, H.

Footnote 577:

  Apoc. xviii. 7.

Footnote 578:

  _Sc._ knights.

Footnote 579:

  _Sc._ as he weaned to have returned; si comme il cuidoit retourner, H.

Footnote 580:

  _Sc._ wholly.

Footnote 581:

  Louez, H.; loe, G. de Tign. (Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 44b); lawded ne
  alowed, Wyer.

Footnote 582:

  Moralia, xv. 6 (Migne, lxxv. 1084).

Footnote 583:

  Matt. xxiii. 27.

Footnote 584:

  _Sc._ sodden; le ble cuit, H. For the same story of Ino see above, p.
  29.

Footnote 585:

  Frustra sibi de infirmitate vel ignorantia blandiuntur, qui ut
  liberius peccent libenter ignorant vel infirmantur, Bern. de Gradibus
  Humilitatis, cap. vi. (Migne, clxxxii. 951).

Footnote 586:

  There is an omission here, _cf._ ou par negligence de les sauoir ou
  par parece de les demander ou par honte de les enquerir, H.

Footnote 587:

  1 Cor. xiv. 38.

Footnote 588:

  Si ne soient de toy despites, H.

Footnote 589:

  This story is from the “Aurea Legenda” of Jacobus de Voragine with
  slight variations (ed. Graesse, 1846, p. 44).

Footnote 590:

  De quelconques personne que ilz soient dis, H.

Footnote 591:

  Hugh de St. Victor, Eruditionis didascalicæ libri vii. (Migne, clxxvi.
  739).

Footnote 592:

  Mais que cest que il dit, H.

Footnote 593:

  Eccl. iii. 31. H. has the colophon, “Explicit lepistre Othea.”

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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

Sont ii. sancsues, H.; sanguisugæ, Innoc., quoting Prov. xxx. 15.
  Wyer’s version rightly has “horse-leeches”; and the reading
  “sauce-makers” is inexplicable.

Footnote 556:

  Tim. vi. 10.

Footnote 557:

  A luniversaire (_sc._ l’anniversaire) du chief de lan des obseques de
  Hector, H.; vnyuersarie, Wyer.

Footnote 558:

  Amer, H.

Footnote 559:

  In ep. Joannis ad Parthos tract. ii. (Migne, xxxv. 1994).

Footnote 560:

  Et sa concupiscence, H.

Footnote 561:

  Amer, H.

Footnote 562:

  1 Ep. Joh. ii. 15.

Footnote 563:

  Perciez doultre en oultre, H.

Footnote 564:

  _Sc._ Augustine.

Footnote 565:

  Susde, MS.; ne nul en sa force ne se doit fyer, H.

Footnote 566:

  2 Cor. iii. 4, 5; tanquam ex nobis, H.

Footnote 567:

  Lenditement, H.; exhortacion, Wyer.

Footnote 568:

  Des mauuais, H.; Barat est le cappitaine des mauuoys et ire est son
  gouuerneur, G. de Tign. (Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 39).

Footnote 569:

  iii. (les, H.) inconueniencees, MS.

Footnote 570:

  _Sc._ deny; reyne, MS.; renyer, H.

Footnote 571:

  Prov. iv. 15.

Footnote 572:

  Paix par faintise, H.

Footnote 573:

  Sa mauuaistie, H.

Footnote 574:

  Psal. xxi. 26.

Footnote 575:

  So H. and other MSS.; perhaps a corruption for Thyre or Tyre.

Footnote 576:

  _Sc._ Ptolemy; Ptholomee, H.

Footnote 577:

  Apoc. xviii. 7.

Footnote 578:

  _Sc._ knights.

Footnote 579:

  _Sc._ as he weaned to have returned; si comme il cuidoit retourner, H.

Footnote 580:

  _Sc._ wholly.

Footnote 581:

  Louez, H.; loe, G. de Tign. (Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 44b); lawded ne
  alowed, Wyer.

Footnote 582:

  Moralia, xv. 6 (Migne, lxxv. 1084).

Footnote 583:

  Matt. xxiii. 27.

Footnote 584:

  _Sc._ sodden; le ble cuit, H. For the same story of Ino see above, p.
  29.

Footnote 585:

  Frustra sibi de infirmitate vel ignorantia blandiuntur, qui ut
  liberius peccent libenter ignorant vel infirmantur, Bern. de Gradibus
  Humilitatis, cap. vi. (Migne, clxxxii. 951).

Footnote 586:

  There is an omission here, _cf._ ou par negligence de les sauoir ou
  par parece de les demander ou par honte de les enquerir, H.

Footnote 587:

  1 Cor. xiv. 38.

Footnote 588:

  Si ne soient de toy despites, H.

Footnote 589:

  This story is from the “Aurea Legenda” of Jacobus de Voragine with
  slight variations (ed. Graesse, 1846, p. 44).

Footnote 590:

  De quelconques personne que ilz soient dis, H.

Footnote 591:

  Hugh de St. Victor, Eruditionis didascalicæ libri vii. (Migne, clxxvi.
  739).

Footnote 592:

  Mais que cest que il dit, H.

Footnote 593:

  Eccl. iii. 31. H. has the colophon, “Explicit lepistre Othea.”

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