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51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. O 33 Boethius, Consolation, p. 4 [1p1]. , pp. 25–26 [2p4]. , p. 26 [2p4]. , p. 7 [1p3]. , p. 44–50]. See Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, trans. J. E. C. Welldon (New York: Prometheus Books, 1987), pp. 15–22. Boethius, Consolation, p. 19 [2p2]. , pp. 19–20 [2p2]. , p. 21 [2m2]. See P. G. Walsh, “Explanatory Notes,” in Boethius, Consolation, p. 2. Boethius, Consolation, pp. 37–38 [2p8]. , p. 22 [2p2]. , p. 56 [3p9]. The following treatment of Boethius’s Consolation, Book 3, Meter 9, comes from Phillips, “Lady Philosophy’s Therapeutic Method,” pp.
The “grete defaughte of us Englysshemen” is fickleness, their willingness to change sides. There are many ways of interpreting this if Malory writes from imprisonment for switching sides and fighting against York with Lancaster. First, he could be indicating his own guilt in taking the part of Lancaster: his own infatuation with the new and his betrayal of his lord. 28 Regardless, Malory suggests that he longs for a loyalty that has already passed England by within King Arthur’s lifetime, the stability of men’s hearts, the unity of England, and he feels ashamed of those who divide the country by turning away from reliable leaders who had helped them in the past and toward “new-fangill,” treacherous, unstable challengers.
1–6]. All quotations from The Consolation of Philosophy [hereafter Consolation] will be taken from this edition unless otherwise indicated. 29. Boethius, Consolation, p. 15–22]. 30. Sophocles, Oedipus the King, trans. David Grene. In Great Books of the Western World 4 (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 2007), p. 132. 31. For a discussion of Boethius’s use of medical imagery and language to describe both patient and physician as well as the diagnosis of the illness and the methods used to cure it in the Consolation, see Philip Edward Phillips, “Lady Philosophy’s Therapeutic Method: The ‘Gentler’ and ‘Stronger’ Remedies in Boethius’s De Consolation Philosophiae,” Medieval English Studies 10, no.