governed, and passeth by thilke lawe, that is to seyn, by thilke

divyne ordenaunce.'

Me. I. 1. A. om. and after Tigris. 3. A. om. bataile. 8. C. entrechaungynge, glossed i. alterni. 10. A. fortuned. 11. C. declynynge, glossed decliuitas. 13. A. om. that (2). 15. thilke] A. the.

Prose II.

Animaduerto, inquam.

'This understonde I wel,' quod I, 'and I acorde wel that it is

right as thou seyst. But I axe yif ther be any libertee of free wil

in this ordre of causes that clyven thus to-gidere in hem-self; or

elles I wolde witen yif that the [destinal] cheyne constreineth the

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