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Chapter IX: The Grief of Remembering Bygone Happiness

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For, of fortunes scharp adversité,
The worste kynde of infortune is this,
A man to han ben in prosperité,
And it remembren, when it passed is.

(_Troylus and Cryseyde_, bk. iii. st. 226, vol. iv. p. 291.)

Sed hoc est, quod recolentem me vehementius coquit. Nam in omni
adversitate fortunæ infelicissimum genus est infortunii, fuisse
felicem.[I-10]

(_Boethius_, lib. ii. pr. 4.)

[Footnote I-10: Cf. Dante, _Inferno_, V. 121.

Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria; e ciò sa ’l tuo Dottore.]

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Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's "De Consolatione Philosophiae"Chapter IX: The Grief of Remembering Bygone Happiness

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