wexeth with-oute mesure, that is driven to and fro with worldly
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windes! This man, that whylom was free, to whom the hevene
was open and knowen, and was wont to goon in heveneliche
pathes, and saugh the lightnesse of the rede sonne, and saugh the
[sterres of the colde mone], and whiche sterre in hevene useth
wandering [recourses], [y-flit] by dyverse speres—[this man], overcomer,
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hadde comprehended al this by noumbre of acountinge in
astronomye. And over this, he was wont to seken the causes