The Influence of Boethius on 'Parlement of Foulys'

Description: The Boethian neo-platonic truth (man is immortal) gives insight into love's complexities and purpose and thematic unity to the "Somnium" precis and the love-vision. Nature's "governaunce" over the birds, like the Boethian bond of love, parallels the "Somnium's" spherical harmony.; The "ryal tersel" relies on his own "trouthe"; his rivals lack a sense of higher things, a contrast like the dualities of selfishness and idealism in the "Somnium," the entrance inscriptions, Venus's temple, and Nature's court.