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