to that vois. For what place mighte ben [left, or dwellinge,]

to folye and to disordenaunce, sin that god ledeth and constreineth

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alle thinges by ordre? For this sentence is verray and

sooth, that "[nothing] ne hath his beinge of naught"; to the

whiche sentence none of thise olde folk ne withseyde never; al-be-it

so that they ne understoden ne meneden it naught by god,

[prince and beginnere] of werkinge, but they [casten [it] as a manere

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foundement of subiect material, that is to seyn, of the nature of