destinee; and tho ben thilke that stably ben y-ficched negh to the

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firste godhed: they surmounten the ordre of destinal moevabletee.

For right as of cercles that tornen a-boute or a-boute

a poynt, thilke cercle that is innerest or most with-inne ioyneth to

the simplesse of the middel, and is, as it were, a centre or a poynt

to that other cercles that tornen a-bouten him; and thilke that is

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outterest, compassed by larger envyronninge, is unfolden by

larger spaces, in so moche as it is forthest fro the middel simplicitee