to seyn, fro tyme passed in-to tyme cominge; ne ther nis no-thing

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establisshed in tyme that may enbracen to-gider al the space of

his lyf. For certes, yit ne hath it taken the tyme of to-morwe, and

it hath lost the tyme of yisterday. And certes, in the lyf of this

day, ye ne liven no more but right as in the moevable and

transitorie moment. Thanne thilke thing that suffreth temporel

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condicioun, al-thogh that it never bigan to be, ne thogh it never

cese for to be, [as Aristotle demed] of the world, and al-thogh that