in this manere they ben [caitifs] fro hir propre libertee. The whiche
thinges, nathelesse, the lokinge of the devyne purviaunce seeth,
that alle thinges biholdeth and seeth fro eterne, and ordeineth
hem everich in hir merites as they ben predestinat: and it is seyd
[in Greek], that "alle thinges he seeth and alle thinges he hereth."
Pr. II. 1. A. Ed. quod I; C. om. // C. Ed. acorde me; A. acorde wel. 2. C. of; A. or (wrongly); Lat. arbitrii. 3. C. hym; A. Ed. hem. 5. C. mouynges (motus); A. moeueuynge (!). 12. A. om. thilke. // C. to ben fleen; A. ben to fleen; Ed. be to flyen. 16. C. dyuynes; A. deuynes (as often in C). 17. C. wil nat I-coromped (uoluntas incorrupta); A. wil nat be corumped (wrongly). 18. C. myht (potestas); A. hath myȝt. 27. C. clowdes; A. Ed. cloude (nube). 27, 8. Ed. A. to the; C. om. the. 31. A. purueaunce. 34. The last clause, in the original, is in Greek.
Metre II.
Puro clarum lumine Phebum.
Homer with the hony mouth, that is to seyn, Homer with the
[swete ditees], singeth, that the sonne is [cleer] by pure light; natheles