and devyded, ne that they ne wolen nat be medeled ne coupled
to-gidere? [But ther nis] no discord to the verray thinges, but they
clyven, certein, alwey to hem-self. But the thought of man, confounded
and overthrowen by the dirke membres of the body, ne
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may nat, [by fyr] of his derked looking, that is to seyn, by the vigour
of his insighte, whyl the soule is in the body, knowe the thinne
subtil knittinges of thinges. [But wherfore] enchaufeth it so, by so
greet love, to finden thilke notes of sooth y-covered; that is to
seyn, wherfore enchaufeth the thoght of man by so greet desyr to