Chaucerian and Other Pieces / Being a Supplement to the Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

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and libertè of arbitrement, fro whiche is removed necessitè?

For truely, it is necessary that god have forweting of thing withouten

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any necessitè cominge.'

'Ye,' quod I; 'but yet remeve ye nat away fro myne understanding

the necessitè folowing goddes be foreweting, as thus. God

beforn wot me in service of love to be bounden to this Margarite-perle,

and therfore by necessitè thus to love am I bounde; and

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if I had nat loved, thorow necessitè had I ben kept from al