awey, ther wexen other doutes with-oute number; right as the
hevedes wexen of [Ydre], the serpent that Ercules slowh. Ne ther
ne were [no manere ne non ende], [but-yif] that a wight constreinede
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tho doutes by a right lyfly and quik fyr of thought; that is to
seyn, by vigour and strengthe of wit. For in this manere men
weren wont to maken questions of the simplicitee of the purviaunce
of god, and of the order of destinee, and of sodein
happe, and of the knowinge and predestinacioun divyne, and of
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