right as we ben wont som-tyme, by a swifte [pointel], to ficchen
lettres empreinted in the smothenesse or in the pleinnesse of the
table of wex or in parchemin that ne hath no figure ne note in it.
Glose. But now argueth Boece ayeins that opinioun, and seith
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thus: [But yif] the thryvinge sowle ne unpleyteth no-thing, that is
to seyn, ne doth no-thing, by his propre moevinges, but suffreth and
lyth subgit to tho figures and to tho notes of bodies withoute-forth,
and yildeth images ydel and veyn in the manere of a mirour,
whennes thryveth thanne or whennes comth thilke knowinge in