of resoun ne of imaginacioun ne of wit withoute-forth; but it
biholdeth alle thinges, so as I shal seye, [by a strok] of thought
formely, withoute discours or collacioun. Certes resoun, whan it
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looketh any-thing universel, it ne useth nat of imaginacioun, nor
of witte, and algates yit it comprehendeth the thinges imaginable
and sensible; for resoun is she that [diffinisseth] the universel of hir
conseyte right thus:—man is a resonable two-foted beest. And
how so that this knowinge is universel, yet nis ther no wight that
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