nat thilke thinges necessarie which that they seen ben y-doon in
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hir sighte? For addeth thy biholdinge any necessitee to thilke
thinges that thou biholdest presente?'
'Nay,' quod I.
Philosophie. 'Certes, thanne, if men mighte maken any digne
comparisoun or collacioun of the presence devyne and of the
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presence of mankinde, right so as ye seen some thinges in this
temporel present, right so seeth god alle thinges by his eterne