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hath feled biforn. For yif that they mighten wrythen awey in

othre manere than they ben purveyed, than sholde ther be no

stedefast prescience of thing to comen, but rather an uncertein

opinioun; the whiche thing to trowen of god, I deme it felonye

and unleveful. Ne I ne [proeve] nat thilke same resoun, as who

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seyth, I ne alowe nat, or I ne preyse nat, thilke same resoun, by

which that som men wenen that they mowen assoilen and

unknitten the knotte of this questioun. For, certes, they seyn