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speke with god, and by resoun of supplicacioun be conioined to
thilke cleernesse, [that nis nat aproched no rather or that] men
beseken it and [impetren] it. And yif men wene nat that hope ne
preyeres ne han no strengthes, by the necessitee of thinges to
comen y-received, what thing is ther thanne by whiche we mowen
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ben conioined and clyven to thilke soverein prince of thinges?
For which it bihoveth, by necessitee, that the [linage of mankinde],
as thou songe , be departed and unioined from