ben comen and procedeth?'

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'I wot wel,' quod I, and answerede, that 'god is beginning

of al.'

'And how may this be,' quod she, 'that, sin thou knowest

the beginning of thinges, that thou ne knowest nat what is the

ende of thinges? But swiche ben the customes of perturbaciouns,

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and this power they han, that they may moeve a

man out of his place, that is to seyn, fro the stablenes and perfeccioun