nothing toforn wist but thing comming; foreweting is but of
trouth[e]; dout[e] may nat be wist; wherfore, whan I sey that god
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toforn wot any-thing, thorow necessitè is thilke thing to be comming;
al is oon if I sey, it shal be. But this necessitè neither
constrayneth ne defendeth any-thing to be or nat to be. Therfore sothly,
if love is put to be, it is said of necessitè to be; or els, for it
is put nat to be, it is affirmed nat to be of necessitè; nat for that
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necessitè constrayneth or defendeth love to be or nat to be. For