"Wilt - PowerPoint Presentation

Slide1

"Wilt

thou

lere

of

sterres

aught?"

"Nay,

certeynly

," quod y, "

ryght

naught."

"

And why?" "For y am now to old."

"

Elles

I

wolde

the have told,"

Quod he, "the

sterres

names, lo,

And al the

hevenes

sygnes

therto

,

And which they ben." "No

fors

," quod y.

"

Yis

,

pardee

," quod he; "

wostow

why?

For when thou

redest

poetrie

,

How

goddes

gonne

stellifye

Bridd

,

fissh

, best, or him or here,

As the Raven or

eyther

Bere

,

Or

Arionis

harpe

fyn

,

Castor, Pollux, or

Delphyn

,

Or

Athalantes

doughtres

sevene

,

How

alle

these

arn

set in

hevene

;

For though thou have hem

ofte

on

honde

,

Yet

nostow

not

wher

that they

stonde

."

"No

fors

," quod y, "

hyt

is no

nede

.

I

leve

as

wel

, so God me

spede

,

Hem that write of this

matere

..."Slide2

The

science of

Astronomie

I

thinke

for to

specefie

,

Withoute

which, to

telle

plein

,

Alle

othre

science is in vein

Toward the

scole

of

erthli

thinges

.

For as an

egle

with his

winges

Fleth

above

alle

that men

finde

,

So doth this science in his

kinde

.

Lege

planetarum

magis

inferiora

reguntur

,

Ista

set

interdum

regula

fallit

opus.

Vir

mediante

deo

sapiens

dominabitur

astris

,

Fata

nec

immerito

quid

nouitatis

agunt

.

[

Things

lower down are ruled by the law of the planets, and sometimes that governance foils endeavor. With God's intervention the wise man will rule the stars, and the fates will not cause anything suddenly unfavorable

.]Slide3

Theologie

is that science

Which unto man

gifth

evidence

Of thing which is

noght

bodely

...

Slide4
Slide5

CASSIUS

Why

, man, he doth bestride the narrow world

Like a Colossus, and we petty men

Walk under his huge legs and peep about

To find ourselves

dishonourable

graves.

Men at some time are masters of their fates:

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,

But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?

Why should that name be sounded more than yours

?

--William Shakespeare,

Julius CaesarSlide6

"Love

even takes Sol prisoner, who rules all the stars with his light. I will tell you about his amours. He was the first god they say to see the adulteries of Venus and Mars: he sees all things first. He was sorry to witness the act, and he told her husband Vulcan, son of Juno, of this bedroom intrigue, and where the intrigue took place. Vulcan’s heart dropped, and he dropped in turn the craftsman’s work he held in his hand. Immediately he began to file thin links of bronze, for a net, a snare that would deceive the eye. The finest spun threads, those the spider spins from the rafters, would not better his work. He made it so it would cling to the smallest movement, the lightest touch, and then artfully placed it over the bed. When the wife and the adulterer had come together on the one couch, they were entangled together, surprised in the midst of their embraces, by the husband’s craft, and the new method of imprisonment he had prepared for them. The

Lemnian

, Vulcan, immediately flung open the ivory doors, and let in the gods. There the two lay shamefully bound together, and one of the gods, undismayed, prayed that he might be shamed like that. And the gods laughed. And for a long time it was the best-known story in all the heavens

."

--Ovid,

Metamorphoses

Book IVSlide7

"...how

bitter was the sorrow of the lovers when we were forced to part! With what shame was I overwhelmed, with what contrition smitten because of the blow which had fallen on her I loved, and what a tempest of misery burst over her by reason of my disgrace! Each grieved most, not for himself, but for the other. Each sought to allay, not his own sufferings, but those of the one he loved. The very sundering of our bodies served but to link our souls closer together; the plentitude of the love which was denied to us inflamed us more than ever. Once the first wildness of shame had passed, it left us more shameless than before, and as shame died within us the cause of it seemed to us ever more desirable.

And so it chanced with us as, in the stories that the poets tell, it once happened with Mars and Venus when they were caught together.

It was not long after this that Heloise found that she was pregnant, and of this she wrote to me in the utmost exultation, at the same time asking me to consider what had best be done. Accordingly, on a night when her uncle was absent, we carried out the plan we had determined on, and I stole her secretly away from her uncle's house, sending her without delay to my own country. She remained there with my sister until she gave birth to a son, whom she named Astrolabe

."

--Peter Abelard,

Historia

CalamitatumSlide8

a

ubade

-- "

dawnsong

," a complaint against the day, typically made at the parting of lovers who have spent the night togetherSlide9

Arcite's

:

Prayer to Mars to Win Emily in Chaucer's

Knight's Tale:

"For

thilke

peyne

and

thilke

hoote

fir

In which

thow

whilom

brendest

for

desir

,

Whan

that

thow

usedest

the

beautee

Of faire,

yonge

,

fresshe

Venus free,

And

haddest

hire in

armes

at thy

wille

--

Although thee ones on a

tyme

mysfille

,

Whan

Vulcanus

hadde

caught thee in his

las

And

foond

thee

liggynge

by his

wyf

,

allas

! --

For

thilke

sorwe

that was in

thyn

herte

,

Have

routhe

as

wel

upon my

peynes

smerte

."Slide10
Slide11
Slide12
Slide13

Harmonia receives the cursed broochSlide14

And

whan

that

he [

Troilus

] was

slayn

in this

manere

[

that is, by Achilles

],

His

lighte

goost

ful

blisfully

is

went

Up

to the

holughnesse

of the

eighthe

spere

,

In convers

(

converse/opposite

side

)

letyng

(

"letting" i.e. abandoning

)

everich

element;

And

ther

he

saugh

with

ful

avysement

(

deliberation, consideration

)

The

erratik

sterres

,

herkenyng

armonye

With

sownes

ful

of

hevenyssh

melodie

.

And

down from

thennes

faste

he

gan

avyse

(

see, consider

)

This

litel

spot of

erthe

that with the se

Embraced

is, and fully

gan

despise

This

wrecched

world, and held al

vanite

To

respect of the

pleyn

felicite

That

is in

hevene

above; and at the

laste

,

Ther

he was

slayn

his

lokyng

down he caste,

And

in

hymself

he lough right at the wo

Of

hem that

wepten

for his

deth

so

faste

,

And

dampned

al

oure

werk

that

foloweth

so

The

blynde

lust, the which that may

nat

laste

,

And

sholden

al

oure

herte

on

heven

caste;

And

forth he

wente

, shortly for to

telle

,

Ther

as

Mercurye

sorted

hym

to

dwelle

.

--Chaucer,

Troilus and Criseyde

Book V.1807-1827

)Slide15

"

Blisful

is that man that may seen the

clere

welle

of good!

Blisful

is he that

mai

unbynden

hym

fro the

boondes

of the

hevy

erthe

! The

poete

of Trace, Orpheus, that

whilome

hadde

ryght

greet

sorwe

for the

deth

of his

wyf

,

aftir

that he

hadde

makid

by his

weeply

songes

the

wodes

moevable

to

renne

, and

hadde

makid

the

ryveris

to

stonden

stille

, and

hadde

maked

the

hertes

and the

hyndes

to

joynen

dreedles

here

sydes

to cruel

lyouns

for to

herknen

his song, and

hadde

maked

that the

hare

was

nat

agast

of the hound,

whiche

was

plesed

by his song; so,

whanne

the

moste

ardaunt

love of his

wif

brende

the

entrayles

of his

breest

, ne the

songes

that

hadden

overcomen

alle

thinges

ne

mighten

nat

asswagen

hir

lord

Orpheus, he

pleynid

hym

of the

hevene

goddis

that

weren

cruel to

hym

.

"He

wente

hym

to the houses of

helle

,

and

ther

he

tempride

his

blaundysschinge

songes

by

resounynge

strenges

, and

spak

and song in

wepynge

al that

evere

he

hadde

resceyved

and

lavyd

out of the noble

welles

of

his

modir

Callyope

the

goddesse

.Slide16

And

he

sang with

as

mochel

as he

myghte

of

wepynge

, and

with as

moche

as love that

doublide

his

sorwe

myghte

yeve

hym

and

teche

hym

, and he

commoevde

the

helle

, and

requyred

and

bysoughte

by

swete

preyere

the

lordes

of

soules

in

helle

of

relessynge

, that is to

seyn

,

to

yelden

hym

his

wyf

. Cerberus, the porter

of

helle

, with

hise

thre

hevedes

, was caught and

al

abasschid

of the

newe

song. And the

thre

goddesses,

furiis

and

vengeresses

of

felonyes

,

that

tormenten

and

agasten

the

soules

by

anoy

,

woxen

sorweful

and

sory

, and

wepyn

teeris

for

pite

.

Tho

was

nat

the

heved

of

Yxion

ytormented

by the

overthrowynge

wheel. And Tantalus, that

was

destroied

by the

woodnesse

of long

thurst

,

despyseth

the

floodes

to

drynken

.

The foul that

highte

voltor

, that

etith

the

stomak

or the

gyser

of

Tycius

, is so

fulfild

of

his song that it nil

eten

ne

tiren

no more. At the

laste

the lord and

juge

of

soules

was

moevid

to

misericordes

, and

cryede

: "

We

ben

overcomen

,"

quod he;

"

yyve

we to Orpheus his

wif

to

beren

hym

compaignye

; he hath

wel

ybought

hire by

his faire song and his

ditee

."Slide17

"But

we

wolen

putten

a

lawe

in this and

covenaunt

in the

yifte

;

that

is to

seyn

that,

til

he be out of

helle

,

yif

he

loke

byhynde

hym

, that his

wyf

schal

comen

ageyn

unto us

."

But what is he that may

yeven

a

lawe

to

loverys

? Love is a

grettere

lawe

and a

strengere

to

hymself

thanne

any

lawe

that

men

mai

yyven

.

Allas

!

Whanne

Orpheus and his

wif

weren

almest

at the

termes

of the

nyght

(that is to

seyn

, at the

laste

boundes

of

helle

),

Orpheus

lokede

abakward

on

Erudyce

his

wif

,

and lost hire, and was deed.

"This

fable

apertenith

to yow

alle

,

whosoevere

desireth

or

seketh

to

lede

his

thought into the

sovereyn

day, that is to

seyn

, to

cleernesse

of

sovereyn

good. For whoso that

evere

be so

overcomen

that he

ficche

his

eien

into

the put of

helle

, that is to

seyn

, whoso

sette

his

thoughtes

in

erthly

thinges

, al that

evere

he

hath

drawen

of the noble good celestial he

lesith

it,

whanne

he

looketh

the

helles

, that is to

seyn

,

into

lowe

thinges

of the

erthe

.