Typesetting

Been playing with L^AT_EX for the most part of the weekend. As an excercise, I downloaded a text in medieval Dutch from the 'net, and added markup. It's a classic, part of most Dutch classes here in Belgium. Page 23, sentence five: "Nu willen wi triumpheren ende costelijc teeren!"

While doing that, I noticed that Medieval Dutch can be nice sometimes. The text contains the following poem:

O rethorijcke, auctentijcke conste leiflijcke,
Ic claghe, met wanhaghe, dat men di haet.
Den sinnen, die u minnen, vallet seer grieflijcke,
Hem tfi, die die geen gade en slaet,
Ende denghene, die di eerst maecte, versmaet
Ick puer versmade als dongheraecte selcke doren,
Maer al eest scade van selcker daet,
Ende leet hem alleene, die dit aenhoren:
Doer donconstighe gaet die conste verleoren.

The final phrase is wonderful. "Doer donconstighe gaet die conste verleoren". Or: "Those who don't know the art will make the art go lost." This text was written somewhere between 1501 and 1515, but it's good. Really.

(Anybody recognize it?