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serent les saiges philosophes jadiz trois manieres
de gens au monde comme ceulx qui bien sceurent
que nul ne pourroit mettre son coraige ad che
quil peust estre bien saige a droit en deux affai
res ne en trois. Car il nadvint oncques jour
du monde que clergie et chavelaerie et laboureurs
de terre peussent estre bien sevez a nul jour de leurs
vies par ung seul homme ne aprises ne retennes
A lune des trois seulement convient penser qui
a droit le veult aprendre. Et pour che poserent
ilz trois manieres de gens sans plus en terre. Car
ilz voiloient enquerre droitte verite. et queroient
une cite au monde ou ilz peussent mieulx estre
et demoureir pour enquerre lestat de clergie. et
aussi pour eulx mieulx adrechier et pour enseig
nier les aultres dont athenes la noble cite fut lu
ne jadiz et la avoient leur assamblee. Et illec
renqua premierement chevalerie avec clergie
et puis dillic sen vint a rome qui orendroit est
de grant renom. Et chevalerie revint apres
qui continuellement se tenoit pres delle. Et

in those days the wise philosophers identified three
kinds of people in the world. And they knew that
no one could exert his energy in such a way that he
could excel in two or three of these categories.
For there has never been a time in this world when
scholarship, fighting, and working the soil can all be mastered
by one person at any time in his life, nor can
one person learn and retain all three skills. It is only possible
for someone to learn one of the three correctly.
And for this reason they argued that there are
only three kinds of people in the world, not more,
because they wanted to investigate the actual truth.
And they sought a city in the world to live in, where
they could investigate the state of scholarship, and also so
they could most effectively reach out and teach
other people. And in those days, noble Athens was that city.
So they gathered there. And chivalry reigned there
together with scholarship. And from there scholarship
came to Rome, as is now very well-known, and chivalry followed
after, always staying close to it. And

serent les saiges philosophes jadiz trois manieres
de gens au monde comme ceulx qui bien sceurent
que nul ne pourroit mettre son coraige ad che
quil peust estre bien saige a droit en deux affai
res ne en trois. Car il nadvint oncques jour
du monde que clergie et chavelaerie et laboureurs
de terre peussent estre bien sevez a nul jour de leurs
vies par ung seul homme ne aprises ne retennes
A lune des trois seulement convient penser qui
a droit le veult aprendre. Et pour che poserent
ilz trois manieres de gens sans plus en terre. Car
ilz voiloient enquerre droitte verite. et queroient
une cite au monde ou ilz peussent mieulx estre
et demoureir pour enquerre lestat de clergie. et
aussi pour eulx mieulx adrechier et pour enseig
nier les aultres dont athenes la noble cite fut lu
ne jadiz et la avoient leur assamblee. Et illec
renqua premierement chevalerie avec clergie
et puis dillic sen vint a rome qui orendroit est
de grant renom. Et chevalerie revint apres
qui continuellement se tenoit pres delle. Et

in those days the wise philosophers identified three
kinds of people in the world. And they knew that
no one could exert his energy in such a way that he
could excel in two or three of these categories.
For there has never been a time in this world when
scholarship, fighting, and working the soil can all be mastered
by one person at any time in his life, nor can
one person learn and retain all three skills. It is only possible
for someone to learn one of the three correctly.
And for this reason they argued that there are
only three kinds of people in the world, not more,
because they wanted to investigate the actual truth.
And they sought a city in the world to live in, where
they could investigate the state of scholarship, and also so
they could most effectively reach out and teach
other people. And in those days, Athens was that city.
So they gathered there. And there, chivalry
first came together with scholarship. And from there chivalry
came to Rome, as is now very well-known, and it
stayed there a long time. And