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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