procedeth right as thogh men travaileden, or weren bisy to enqueren,
the whiche thing is cause of the whiche thing:—as, whether the
prescience is cause of the necessitee of thinges to comen, or elles
that the necessitee of thinges to comen is cause of the purviaunce.
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[But I ne] enforce me nat now to shewen it, that the bitydinge of
thinges y-wist biforn is necessarie, how so or in what manere
that the ordre of causes hath it-self; al-thogh that it ne seme nat
that the prescience bringe in necessitee of bitydinge to thinges to
comen. For certes, yif that any wight sitteth, it bihoveth by