thrist thy-self in-to wikke thinges: [right as thou] mightest loken by
dyverse tymes the foule erthe and the hevene, and that alle other
thinges stinten fro with-oute, so that thou nere neither in hevene
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ne in erthe, ne saye no-thing more; than it sholde semen to
thee, as by only resoun of lokinge, that thou were now in the
sterres and now in the erthe. But the poeple ne loketh nat on
thise thinges. What thanne? Shal we thanne aprochen us to
hem that I have shewed that they ben lyk to bestes? And what
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