deceive thee; but I have shewed thee the thing that is grettest

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over alle thinges by the yift of god, that we whylom preyeden.

For this is the forme of the devyne substaunce, that is swich that

it ne slydeth nat in-to outterest foreine thinges, ne ne receiveth

no straunge thinges in him; but right as [Parmenides] seyde in

Greek of thilke devyne substaunce; he seyde thus: that "thilke

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devyne substaunce torneth the world and the moevable cercle of

thinges, whyl thilke devyne substaunce kepeth it-self with-oute