broughte som-tyme olde men, ful derke in hir sentences, that is to

seyn, philosophres that highten Stoiciens, that wenden that images

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and sensibilitees, that is to seyn, sensible imaginaciouns, or elles

imaginaciouns of sensible thinges, weren empreinted in-to sowles

fro bodies withoute-forth; as who seith, that thilke Stoiciens wenden

that the sowle hadde ben naked of it-self, as a mirour or a clene

parchemin, so that alle figures mosten first comen fro thinges fro

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withoute-forth in-to sowles, and ben empreinted in-to sowles: [Text]: