is signe of this necessitee; or elles, yif ther nere no necessitee,
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certes, thilke prescience ne mighte nat be signe of thing that nis
nat. But certes, it is now certein that the proeve of this,
y-sustened by stidefast resoun, ne shal nat ben lad ne proeved by
signes ne by arguments y-taken fro with-oute, but by causes
covenable and necessarie. But thou mayst seyn, how may it be
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that the thinges ne bityden nat that ben y-purveyed to comen?
[But, certes, right] as we trowen that tho thinges which that the