made, and being [it] hath; and that is good. Other badnesse no

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being hath utterly; it is in the negative of somwhat, and that is

naught and nothing being. The parties essential of being arn

sayd in double wyse, as that it is; and these parties ben founde

in every creature. For al thing, a this halfe the first being, is

being through participacion, taking partie of being; so that [in]

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every creature is difference bitwene being of him through whom

it is, and his own being. Right as every good is a maner of