maneres in the lyknesse of necessitee by the condicioun of the
devyne science?'
Philosophie. 'This is the difference,' quod she; 'that tho
thinges that I purposede thee a litel heer-biforn, that is to seyn,
[the sonne arysinge] and the man walkinge, that, ther-whyles that
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thilke thinges been y-doon, they ne mighte nat ben undoon;
natheles, that oon of hem, or it was y-doon, it bihoved by necessitee
that it was y-doon, but nat that other. Right so is it
here, that the thinges that god hath present, with-oute doute they