ne woot wel that a man is a thing imaginable and sensible; and

this same considereth wel resoun; but that nis nat by imaginacioun

nor by wit, but it looketh it by a resonable concepcioun. Also

imaginacioun, al-be-it so that it taketh of wit the beginninges to

seen and to formen the figures, algates, al-thogh that wit ne were

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nat present, yit it environeth and comprehendeth alle thinges

sensible; nat by resoun sensible of deminge, but by resoun

imaginatif. Seestow nat thanne that alle the thinges, in knowinge,

usen more of hir facultee or of hir power than they doon of the