free-wil wol and may, and not may not wilne; and nedeful is

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that to wilne he may not wilne. But thilke to wilne nedeful is; for

impossible to him it is oon thing and the same to wilne and not to

wilne. The werke, forsothe, of wil, to whom it is yeve that it be that

he hath in wil, and that he wol not, voluntarie †or spontanye it is;

for by spontanye wil it is do, that is to saye, with good wil not

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constrayned: than by wil not constrayned it is constrayned to

be; and that is it may not †togider be. If this necessitè maketh