'O,' quod she, 'there is a melodye in heven, whiche clerkes
clepen "armony"; but that is not in brekinge of voice, but it is
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a maner swete thing of kyndely werching, that causeth joye
out of nombre to recken, and that is joyned by reson and by
wysdome in a quantitè of proporcion of knitting. God made al
thing in reson and in witte of proporcion of melody, we mowe not
suffyse to shewe. It is written by grete clerkes and wyse, that,
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in erthly thinges, lightly by studye and by travayle the knowinge