ordre neweth ayein alle thinges growinge and fallinge a-doun, by
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semblable progressiouns of sedes and of sexes, that is to seyn,
male and femele. And this ilke ordre constreineth the fortunes and
the dedes of men by a bond of causes, nat able to ben unbounde;
the whiche destinal causes, [whan they passen] out fro the biginninges
of the unmoevable purviaunce, it mot nedes be that they
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ne be nat mutable. And thus ben the thinges ful wel y-governed,
yif that the simplicitee dwellinge in the divyne thoght sheweth