first or thinges that ben unparfit; and for-thy, [for as moche] as
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that my resoun or my proces ne go nat a-wey with-oute an
ende, we owen to graunten that the soverein god is right ful
of soverein parfit good. And we han establisshed that the
soverein good is verray blisfulnesse: thanne mot it nedes be,
that verray blisfulnesse is set in soverein god.'
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'This take I wel,' quod I, 'ne this ne may nat ben withseid
in no manere.'