------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE COMPLETE WORKS OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE _The First Complete and Authorised English Translation_ EDITED BY DR OSCAR LEVY [Illustration] VOLUME TEN THE JOYFUL WISDOM ("LA GAYA SCIENZA") ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Of the First Edition of One Thousand Five Hundred Copies this is No. _FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE_ THE JOYFUL WISDOM ("LA GAYA SCIENZA") TRANSLATED BY THOMAS COMMON WITH POETRY RENDERED BY PAUL V. COHN AND MAUDE D. PETRE _I stay to mine house confined, Nor graft my wits on alien stock; And mock at every master mind That never at itself could mock._ T. N. FOULIS 13 & 15 FREDERICK STREET EDINBURGH: & LONDON 1910 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Printed at THE DARIEN PRESS, _Edinburgh_. CONTENTS PAGE EDITORIAL NOTE vii PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION 1 JEST, RUSE AND REVENGE: A PRELUDE IN RHYME 11 BOOK FIRST 29 BOOK SECOND 93 BOOK THIRD 149 BOOK FOURTH: SANCTUS JANUARIUS 211 BOOK FIFTH: WE FEARLESS ONES 273 APPENDIX: SONGS OF PRINCE FREE-AS-A-BIRD 355 EDITORIAL NOTE