before-wist hath predestined, hath cleped, hath justifyed, and
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hath magnifyed. Me thinketh, he shulde have sayd tho wordes
in tyme present; and that had ben more accordaunt to the
everlasting present than to have spoke in preterit voice of passed
understanding.'
'O,' quod Love, 'by these wordes I see wel thou hast litel
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understanding of the everlasting presence, or els of my before
spoken wordes; for never a thing of tho thou hast nempned was