And thus, al-thogh that the cause of the sooth cometh of that
other syde (as who seyth, that al-thogh the cause of sooth comth
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of the sitting, and nat of the trewe opinioun), algates yit is ther
comune necessitee in that oon and in that other. Thus sheweth
it, that I may make semblable skiles of the purviaunce of god
and of thinges to comen. [For althogh that], for that thinges ben
to comen, ther-fore ben they purveyed, nat, certes, for that they
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ben purveyed, [ther-fore ne bityde they nat]. Yit natheles,