reader these premises would go unnoticed. In poem II Boethius writes the first premise of his argument through the words of Lady Philosophy, "So sinks the mind in deep despair and sight grows dim; when storms of life inflate the weight of earthly care." Lady Philosophy is saying that man's perception of the truth can be false when obscured by worldly concerns. Boethius then parallels this premise in his prose by explaining that man will not always recognize philosophy, implied as truth. "When she saw that it was not that I would not speak, but that, dumbstruck, I could not, she gently laid her hand on my breast and said, 'It is nothing serious, only a touch of amnesia that he is suffering, the common disease of deluded minds." These two premises are tied together in Boethius's argument by bot
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