mayst nat eschuen the devyne prescience; right as thou ne mayst

nat fleen the sighte of the presente eye, al-though that thou torne

thy-self by thy free wil in-to dyverse acciouns. But thou mayst

seyn ayein: "How shal it thanne be? Shal nat the devyne

science be chaunged by my disposicioun, whan that I wol o thing

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now, and now another? [And thilke] prescience, ne semeth it nat

to entrechaunge stoundes of knowinge;"' as who seith, ne shal it

nat seme to us, that the devyne prescience entrechaungeth hise dyverse

stoundes of knowinge, so that it knowe sum-tyme o thing and sum-tyme