facultee, that is to seyn, the power and the nature, of hem that
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knowen. [And, for that this thing shal mowen shewen] by a short
ensaumple: the same [roundnesse] of a body, other-weys the sighte
of the eye knoweth it, and other-weyes the touchinge. The
lokinge, by castinge of his bemes, waiteth and seeth from afer al
the body to-gidere, with-oute moevinge of it-self; but the touchinge
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clyveth and conioineth to the rounde body, and moeveth aboute
the environinge, and comprehendeth by parties the roundnesse.