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