'O thou fader, creator of hevene and of erthes, that governest
this world by perdurable resoun, that comaundest the tymes to
gon from [sin that age hadde beginninge]; thou that dwellest
thy-self ay stedefast and stable, and yevest alle othre thinges
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to ben moeved; ne foreine causes [necesseden] thee never to
compoune werk of [floteringe matere], but only the forme of
soverein good y-set with-in thee with-oute envye, that moevede
thee freely. Thou that art alder-fayrest, [beringe] the faire world
in thy thought, formedest this world to the lyknesse semblable