whan I say, if love shal be, of necessitè it shal be, here foloweth
necessitè the thing toforn put; it is as moch to say as if it were thus
pronounced—"that thing shal be." Noon other thing signifyeth
this necessitè but only thus: that shal be, may nat togider be
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and nat be. Evenlich also it is soth, love was, and is, and shal
be, nat of necessitè; and nede is to have be al that was; and
nedeful is to be al that is; and comming, to al that shal be.
And it is nat the same to saye, love to be passed, and love
passed to be passed; or love present to be present, and love to