and by wit, we sholde rather preyse the cause of resoun; as
who seith, than the cause of wit and of imaginacioun.
Semblable thing is it, that the resoun of mankinde ne weneth
nat that the devyne intelligence bi-holdeth or knoweth thinges to
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comen, but right as the resoun of mankinde knoweth hem. For
thou arguest and seyst thus: that yif it ne seme nat to men that
some thinges han certein and necessarie bitydinges, they ne
mowen nat ben wist biforn certeinly to bityden. And thanne
nis ther no prescience of thilke thinges; and yif we trowe that