with-oute doute, alle the thinges shollen ben doon which that
god wot biforn that they ben to comen. But som of hem comen
and bityden of free arbitre or of free wille, that, al-be-it so that
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they bityden, yit algates ne lese they nat hir propre nature in
[beinge]; [by the which] first, or that they weren y-doon, they
hadden power nat to han bitid.'
Boece. 'What is this to seyn thanne,' quod I, 'that thinges ne
ben nat necessarie by hir propre nature, [so as they comen] in alle
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