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