thilke thinges that the prescience wot biforn ne mowen nat [unbityde]?

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That is to seyn, that they moten bityde. But thanne, yif

that prescience ne putteth no necessitee to thinges to comen, as

[thou thy-self] hast confessed it and biknowen a litel her-biforn, what

[cause] or what is it (as who seith, ther may no cause be) by which

that the [endes] voluntarie of thinges mighten be constreined to

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certein bitydinge? For [by grace of positioun], so that thou mowe

the betere understonde this that folweth, [I pose], per impossibile,