Incipit Liber Septimus.

P. iii. 84[The Education of Alexander.]i.Omnibus in causis sapiens doctrina salutemConsequitur, nec habet quis nisi doctus opem.Naturam superat doctrina, viro quod et ortusIngenii docilis non dedit, ipsa dabit.Non ita discretus hominum per climata regnat,Quin, magis vt sapiat, indiget ipse scole.I Genius the prest of love,Quia omnis doctrina bona humano regimini salutem confert, in hoc septimo libro ad instanciam Amantis languidi intendit Genius illam ex qua Philosophi et Astrologi philosophie doctrinam Regem Alexandrum imbuerunt, secundum aliquid declarare. Diuidit enim philosophiam in tres partes, quarum prima Theorica, secunda Rethorica, tercia Practica nuncupata est, de quarum condicionibus subsequenter per singula tractabit.Mi Sone, as thou hast preid aboveThat I the Scole schal declareOf Aristotle and ek the fareOf Alisandre, hou he was tauht,I am somdel therof destrauht;For it is noght to the matiereOf love, why we sitten hiereTo schryve, so as Venus bad.Bot natheles, for it is glad,10So as thou seist, for thin apriseTo hiere of suche thinges wise,Wherof thou myht the time lisse,927So as I can, I schal the wisse:P. iii. 85For wisdom is at every throwe928Above alle other thing to knoweIn loves cause and elleswhere.Forthi, my Sone, unto thin Ere,Though it be noght in the registre

P. iii. 84

[The Education of Alexander.]

i.Omnibus in causis sapiens doctrina salutem

Consequitur, nec habet quis nisi doctus opem.

Naturam superat doctrina, viro quod et ortus

Ingenii docilis non dedit, ipsa dabit.

Non ita discretus hominum per climata regnat,

Quin, magis vt sapiat, indiget ipse scole.

I Genius the prest of love,Quia omnis doctrina bona humano regimini salutem confert, in hoc septimo libro ad instanciam Amantis languidi intendit Genius illam ex qua Philosophi et Astrologi philosophie doctrinam Regem Alexandrum imbuerunt, secundum aliquid declarare. Diuidit enim philosophiam in tres partes, quarum prima Theorica, secunda Rethorica, tercia Practica nuncupata est, de quarum condicionibus subsequenter per singula tractabit.Mi Sone, as thou hast preid aboveThat I the Scole schal declareOf Aristotle and ek the fareOf Alisandre, hou he was tauht,I am somdel therof destrauht;For it is noght to the matiereOf love, why we sitten hiereTo schryve, so as Venus bad.Bot natheles, for it is glad,10So as thou seist, for thin apriseTo hiere of suche thinges wise,Wherof thou myht the time lisse,927So as I can, I schal the wisse:P. iii. 85For wisdom is at every throwe928Above alle other thing to knoweIn loves cause and elleswhere.Forthi, my Sone, unto thin Ere,Though it be noght in the registre

I Genius the prest of love,

Quia omnis doctrina bona humano regimini salutem confert, in hoc septimo libro ad instanciam Amantis languidi intendit Genius illam ex qua Philosophi et Astrologi philosophie doctrinam Regem Alexandrum imbuerunt, secundum aliquid declarare. Diuidit enim philosophiam in tres partes, quarum prima Theorica, secunda Rethorica, tercia Practica nuncupata est, de quarum condicionibus subsequenter per singula tractabit.

Mi Sone, as thou hast preid above

That I the Scole schal declare

Of Aristotle and ek the fare

Of Alisandre, hou he was tauht,

I am somdel therof destrauht;

For it is noght to the matiere

Of love, why we sitten hiere

To schryve, so as Venus bad.

Bot natheles, for it is glad,10

So as thou seist, for thin aprise

To hiere of suche thinges wise,

Wherof thou myht the time lisse,927

So as I can, I schal the wisse:

P. iii. 85

For wisdom is at every throwe928

Above alle other thing to knowe

In loves cause and elleswhere.

Forthi, my Sone, unto thin Ere,

Though it be noght in the registre

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