For if hire (Fortune’s) whiel stynte any thinge to torne
Thanne cessed she Fortune anon to be.
(_Troylus and Cryseyde_, bk. i. st. 122, p. 142.)
If fortune bygan to dwelle stable. she cesed[e] þan to ben fortune.
(_Chaucer’s Boethius_, p. 32.)
(Compare stanzas 120, 121, p. 142, and stanza 136, p. 146, of ‘Troylus
and Cryseyde’ with pp. 31, 33, 35, and p. 34 of Chaucer’s Boethius.)
At omnium mortalium stolidissime, si manere incipit, fors esse
desistit.
(_Boethius_, lib. ii. prose 1.)