entencion, closing (as to saye) so mote it be nedes, and otherwyse
may it nat betyde.'
'This shalt thou lerne,' quod she, 'so thou take hede in my
speche. If it were nat in mannes owne libertè of free wil to do
good or bad, but to the one teyed by bonde of goddes preordinaunce,
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than, do he never so wel, it were by nedeful compulcion
of thilk bonde, and nat by free choice, wherby nothing he
desyreth: and do he never so yvel, it were nat man for to wyte,
but onlich to him that suche thing ordayned him to done.