# Confessio Amantis/Liber Secundus

​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
i.
10 aliis Hi
B2,
chiere,
BA,
W
i.
160 ​——
LIBER SECUNDUS
131
Ethna, which brenneth yer be yere,
Was thanne noght
20
Of thilke Sor which prively Min hertes thoght withinne brenneth. The Schip which on the wawes renneth,
And
forstormed and forblowe,
is
noght more peined
Is
Than
An
I
am
throwe
for a
whanne
thanne,
In that fortune of loves Bot, fader, this
That
is
me
o place
30
mai noght grieve
it
ye mai
this
in
lese or finde grace
In other stede,
Bot
yifte.
telle in schrifte,
I
nowher bot
For who that
se
I
other which that passeth
riht
wel believe,
Toward mi ladi that I serve, Thogh that I wiste forto sterve, Min herte is full of such sotie, That
Whan
myself mai noght chastie.
I I
the Court se of Cupide
my
Aproche unto
ladi side
Of hem that lusti ben and Thogh it availe hem noght Bot only
My
ben
that thei
sorwe
Bot whan
is
40 freisshe,
a reisshe,
in speche,
thanne noght to seche
thei
rounen
Of I
that I se
i.
161
hem
wel at ese,
my desese. my ladi selve,
telle
Bot, Sire, as of
Thogh sche have wowers For no mistrust
50
ten or twelve.
have of hire
I
grieveth noght, for certes, Sire,
I trowe,
Nis
P.
sorwes thanne be so stronge
can noght
Me
in hire Ere,
Than groweth al my moste fere. And namly whan thei talen longe
My
in al this
womman
WoU
world to seche,
that in
dede and speche
betre avise hire what sche doth,
31 nowher]
now heer
K
2
(here)
MX
[Sorrow
for
other man's
so hot as I
Ba
an-
Joy.] ​CONFESSIO AMANTIS
132
Ne
[Sorrow for anOTHER MAN S ^°^"-l
betre, forto seie a soth,
Kepe
And
honour
hire
Bot natheles
thank beside.
am
I
That whanne
Or
ate allé tide,
yit get hire a
eny throwe,
se at
I
mai
elles if I
60
beknowe, hiere,
it
That sche make eny man good
chiere,
Thogh I therof have noght to done, Mi thought wol entermette him sone. For thogh
be miselve strange,
I
Envie makth niyn herte change,
That
Of
I
am
sorghfully bestad
that I se
With
Of Or
hire
an other glad
bot of other
love what so mai befalle,
Now
have
As of
I
bot
I
Now
heede.
litel
my
seid,
have
I
i.
162
wist.
axeth further what you
Mi
P.
fader, al
this point in special,
Als ferforthli as
I
he spede,
that he faile or that
Therof take
Confessor.
70
allé,
Sone, er
I
list.
axe eny more,
thenke somdiel
for thi lore
80
Telle an ensample of this matière
Touchende Envie, Write
as thou schalt hiere.
in Civile this I finde
Thogh
it
be noght the houndes kinde
To ete chaf, yit wol he werne An Oxe which comth to the berne, Therof
And It
who
that
stant of love in
Who
that
And mai
He He
is
it
understode,
many
place
if
himselven noght
he may put eny
doth
59 ate A. S, F
at J,
MHi, AdA, Hs
92 wolde] ])ought(c)
al that
B olire
XEC
out of loves grace
J, S,
F
AJEC, SB, F ])ough
faile
lette,
he mai to
60 get
90
availe,
wolde an other scholde
And
rothir)
eny fode.
to taken
thus,
HiRLBa
lette.
gete
AC, B
71 ojier
78 further] fader
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completeworksofj02gowe).pdf/404 ​LIBER SECUNDUS 225
I woll thee telle what is more, 3520
So that thou schalt the vices knowe:
For whan thei be to thee full knowe,
Thou miht hem wel the betre eschuie.
And for this cause I thenke suie
The forme bothe and the matière, P. i. 278
As now suiende thou schalt hiere
Which vice stant next after this:
And whan thou wost how that it is,
As thou schalt hiere me devise,
Thow miht thiself the betre avise. 3530
Explicit Liber Secundus.