the future, and to whom ther nis naught of the preterit escaped

nor y-passed, thilke same is y-witnessed and y-proeved by right to

be eterne. And it bihoveth by necessitee that thilke thing be

al-wey [present] to him-self, and compotent; as who seith, al-wey

present to him-self, and so mighty that al be right at his plesaunce;

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and that he have al present the infinitee of the moevable tyme.

Wher-for som men trowen wrongfully that, whan they heren that

it semede to Plato that this world ne hadde never beginninge

of tyme, ne that it never shal han failinge, they wenen in this