elles, he ne coude nat desire it. [Or who] may folwen thinges that ne
ben nat y-wist? And thogh that he seke tho thinges, wher shal he
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finde hem? What wight, that is al unconninge and ignoraunt,
may knowen the forme that is y-founde? [But whan] the soule
biholdeth and seeth the heye thoght, that is to seyn, god, than
knoweth it to-gidere the somme and the singularitees, that is to
seyn, the principles and everich by him-self.
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But now, whyl the soule is hid in the cloude and in the derkenesse