that god knoweth biforn alle thinges, and that ther is any freedom

of libertee. For yif so be that god loketh alle thinges biforn, ne

god ne may nat ben desseived in no manere, than mot it nedes

been, that alle thinges bityden the whiche that the purviaunce of

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god hath seyn biforn to comen. For which, yif that god

knoweth biforn nat only the werkes of men, but also hir conseiles

and hir willes, thanne ne shal ther be no [libertee of arbitre]; ne,

certes, ther ne may be noon other dede, ne no wil, but thilke

which that the divyne purviaunce, that may nat ben desseived,