to it-self, than is it singuler. But now, yif thou seyst thus, that
yif it be in my power to chaunge my purpos, than shal I voide the
purviaunce of god, whan that, peraventure, I shal han chaunged
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the thinges that he knoweth biforn, thanne shal I answere thee
thus. Certes, thou mayst wel chaunge thy purpos; but, for as
mochel as the present soothnesse of the devyne purviaunce biholdeth
that thou mayst chaunge thy purpos, and whether thou
wolt chaunge it or no, and whiderward that thou torne it, thou ne
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