CONFESSIO AMANTIS
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Incipit Liber Secundus.
P.
i.
159
[Envy.]
Inuidie culpa magis est attrita dolore,
Nam
sua metis nullo tempore
Quo gaudent
alii,
Est, cut de
dolet
puro comoda
leta ftianet
velle facit.
Proximitatis honor sua corda veretur,
Est
Hoc
nee vnus amicus
ille,
et
omnis
sibi leticia sic aliéna dolor.
etenim viciutn gua?n sepe j-epugnat amanti,
sibi, set reliqiiis, dum fauet ipsa Venus. Est amor ex proprio mottt fantasticus, et que Gaudia fert alius, credit obesse sibi.
Noil
Now Hie
in
secundo
li-
bro tractat de Inuidia et eius speciebus, quarum dolor alterius gaudii prima nuncupatur,
cuiuscondicionem
secundum vicium Confessor primitusdescri-
bens,Amanti,quatenus
amorem concernit, supei eodem consequen-
after Pride the
Therof he takth
That
vice
Forthi,
Thou As Sorrow for another man's Joy.]
secounde
Ther is, which many a woful stounde Towardes othre berth aboute Withinne himself and noght withoute; For in his thoght he brenneth evere, Whan that he wot an other levere Or more vertuous than he, Which passeth him in his degre ;
ter opponit.
[i.
(10)
is
maladie
his
cleped hot Envie.
my
Sone,
art or hast
10
be so
if it
ben on of
tho,
forto speke in loves cas,
If evere yit thin herte
was
Sek of an other mannes hele So god avance
my
P.
?
querele,
Mi fader, ye, a thousend sithe Whanne I have sen an other blithe
Of
love,
and hadde a goodly
Latin Verses
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10 aliis Hi
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B2,
chiere,
BA,
W
i.
160
