Lady Philosophy and Boethius from the Consolation, (Ghent, 1485)
Index of Verse Interludes
PREFACE.
PROEM.
Book I.
The Sorrows of Boethius
Boethius' Complaint
His Despondency
The Mists dispelled
Nothing can subdue Virtue
Boethius' Prayer
All Things have their Needful Order
The Perturbations of Passion
Book II.
The Vanity of Fortune's Gifts
Fortune's Malice
Man's Covetousness
All Passes
The Golden Mean
The Former Age
Neros' Infamy
Glory may not last
Love is Lord of all
Book III.
True Happiness and False
The Thorns of Error
The Bent of Nature
The Insatiableness of Avarice
Disgrace of Honours conferred by a Tyrant
Self-mastery
True Nobility
Pleasure's Sting
Human Folly
Invocation
The True Light
Reminiscence
Orpheus and Eurydice
Book IV.
Good and Ill Fortune
The Soul's Flight
The Bondage of Passion
Circe's Cup
The Unreasonableness of Hatred
Wonder and Ignorance
The Universal Aim
The Hero's Path
Book V.
Free Will and God's Foreknowledge
Chance
The True Sun
Truth's Paradoxes
A Psychological Fallacy
The Upward Look
EPILOGUE.
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