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Excerpt from Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's "De Consolatione Philosophiae" Other translations are by John Walton of Osney, in verse, in 1410 (reg. Ms. 18, A first printed at Tavistock in 1525, and to be edited some time or other for the E. E. T. S. An anonymous prose version in the Bodleian. George Coluile, alias Coldewel, 1556; J. T. 1609 H. Conningesbye, 1664; Lord Preston, 1695, 1712; W. Causton, 1730; Redpath, 1785; R. Duncan, 1789; anon. 1792 (lowndes). Consolation as 'a beck not known by manv.'1 Belgium had her tmnslations - both Flemishz and Frenchi'; Germany hers, ' France hers,5 Italy hers. The Latin editors are too numerous to be catalogued here, and manuscripts abound in all our great libraries. No philosopher was so bone of the bone and esh of the esh of Middle-age writers as Boethius. Take up what writer you will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."