and that is this: that, so as the ordre of thinges is y-led and
comth of the purviaunce of god, ne that no-thing nis leveful to
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the conseiles of mankinde (as who seyth, that men han no power to
doon no-thing, ne wilne no-thing), than folweth it, that oure vyces
ben referred to the maker of alle good (as who seyth, than folweth
it, that god oughte han the blame of oure vyces, sin he constreineth us
by necessitee to doon vyces). Thanne is ther no resoun to hopen in
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god, ne for to preyen to god; for what sholde any wight hopen to