So may be seker non astat,

P. i. 23

Now hier now ther, now to now fro,

Now up now down, this world goth so, 570

And evere hath don and evere schal:

Wherof I finde in special

A tale writen in the Bible,

Which moste nedes be credible;

And that as in conclusioun

Seith that upon divisioun