Note 506 — Appendix. VARIANTS AND ANALOGUES OF SOME OF THE TALES IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS. VOLS. I. AND II. (continued 2)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Mr. Gibb compares with this the following passage from Boethius, “De Consolatione Philosophiæ,” as translated by Chaucer: “All thynges seken ayen to hir propre course, and all thynges rejoysen on hir retourninge agayne to hir nature.”