prescience nis nat cause of the necessitee of bitydinge to thinges
to comen, algates yit it is a signe that the thinges ben to bityden
by necessitee. By this manere thanne, al-thogh the prescience
ne hadde never y-ben, yit algate or at the leeste weye it is certein
thing, that the endes and bitydinges of thinges to comen sholden
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ben necessarie. For every signe sheweth and signifyeth only what
the thing is, but it ne maketh nat the thing that it signifyeth. For
which it bihoveth first to shewen, that no-thing ne bitydeth that it
ne bitydeth by necessitee, so that it may appere that the prescience