alle resoun. And yif that any thing is woxen or comen of no
causes, than shal it seme that thilke thing is comen or woxen of
naught; but yif this ne may nat ben don, thanne is it nat possible,
that hap be any swich thing as I have diffinisshed a litel heer-biforn.'
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'How shal it thanne be?' quod I. 'Nis ther thanne no-thing
that by right may be cleped either "hap" or elles "aventure of
fortune"; or is ther aught, al-be-it so that it is hid fro the peple,
to which these wordes ben covenable?'
'Myn [Aristotulis],' quod she, 'in the book of his Phisik, diffinissheth