the contrarie of that thing?

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'No, forsothe,' quod I.

Philosophie. '[For the devyne] sighte renneth to-forn and seeth alle

futures, and clepeth hem ayein, and retorneth hem to the presence

of his propre knowinge; [ne he ne] entrechaungeth nat, so as thou

wenest, the stoundes of forknowinge, as now this, now that; but

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he ay-dwellinge comth biforn, and embraceth at o strook alle thy

mutaciouns. And this presence to comprehenden and to seen