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whylom ben causes of thilke soverein purvyaunce that is in god?
And her-to I adde yit this thing: that, right as whan that I wot
that a thing is, it bihoveth by necessitee that thilke selve thing be;
and eek, whan I have knowe that any thing shal bityden, so
byhoveth it by necessitee that thilke thing bityde:—so folweth it
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thanne, that the bitydinge of the thing y-wist biforn ne may nat
ben eschued. And [at the laste], yif that any wight wene a thing
to ben other weyes thanne it is, it is nat only unscience, but it is