Boece. 'Now confesse I wel,' quod I, 'that I see now wel

certeinly, with-oute doutes, the thinges that whylom semeden

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uncertain to me.'

'But,' quod she, 'thilke thing that desireth to be and to

dwellen perdurably, he desireth to ben oon; [for yif that] that

oon were destroyed, certes, beinge ne shulde ther non dwellen

to no wight.'

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'That is sooth,' quod I.