Boethius from The Consolation of Philosophy

Ok so tonight I read BOETHIUS from THE CONSOLATION of PHILOSPHY, and to be honest it is pretty confusing. The book braces you that the original text is from Middle English, but that it should still be comprehensible to the modern reader. If comprehensible is used loosely than this is correct. OK, so I even tried to look up some stuff on this medieval lyric, but the explanations proved to be even more confusing, and would definitely sound plagiarized coming from me. So I am going to try and dissect this lyric little by little. The lyric starts out about being happy and references another poet by the name of Orpheus. Boethius states that the wife of Orpheus has had a sad death. The author goes on to maybe describe Orpheus before the death, saying things such as how he would run in the woods, lay beside lions, and basically was carefree, even if he was a "hare" he wouldn't be afraid of the "hound" because he had the gift to make him peaceful with words. But now Orpheus is complaining of unyielding gods, and is withdrawing from his writing, he is can only ask for pardons from Hades', the ruler of the underworld. This is where it becomes muddled for me, the author starts to reference Greek mythology, such as the three headed dog Cerberus, Zeus' famous eternal punishment, and the furies. My two visions of how the lyric ends are this, first that Orpheus makes peace with the loss of his love, and everything keeps moving in the world, "whatever excellence he takes with him". Or, Orpheus kills himself because he wasn't to be with his deceased love, "we grant that the man his wife to go with him", the author also says Orpheus "saw, lost, killed." which could mean killed something else or himself. All together I did enjoy the lyric if what I interpreted is correct, and since this is my first lyric I'm going to give it three stars for fun, all others shall be in reference to this one.