Thou, redere, mayst thy-self ful wel devyne 270 That swich a wo my wit can not defyne.
But soome men thinken it wil ner can otherwise bee; and men speke and devyne moche matere of the comyng this day in suche array to Westminster.
Geney mete to gheders, ye know and candevyne best what ys to be doon.
Shal nat the devyne science be chaunged by my disposicioun, whan that I wol o thing now, and now another?
Thise thinges thanne, yif they ben referred to the devyne sighte, thanne ben they maked necessarie by the condicioun of the devyne knowinge.
What is this to seyn thanne,' quod I, 'that thinges ne ben nat necessarie by hir propre nature, so as they comen in alle maneres in the lyknesse of necessitee by the condicioun of the 155 devyne science?
Lat us considere thanne what is eternitee; for certes that shal shewen us to-gidere thedevyne nature and the devyne science.
Semblable thing is it, that the resoun of mankinde ne weneth nat that the devyne intelligence bi-holdeth or knoweth thinges to comen, but right as the resoun of mankinde knoweth hem.
He brint all the Chronicles of Scotland, with all maner of bukis, als weill of devyne seruyce as of othir materis, to that fyne that the memorye of Scottis suld peris.
How dare than beestes in this worlde aught forfete 155 ayenst thy devyne purveyaunce?
Trewly, were it leful unto you, to al the goddes wolde I playne, that ye rule your devyne purveyaunce amonges 130 your servantes nothing as ye shulde.
What this metels by-meneth, Ye men that ben murye Devyne ye, for I ne dar, By deere God in hevene.
Ac Theologie hath tened me Ten score tymes; The moore I muse therinne The mystier it seemeth, And the depper I devyne The derker me it thynketh.
Wyf,' quod this man, 'litel canstow devyne The curious bisinesse that we have.
Yet herde I never tellen in myn age Upon this nombre diffinicioun; 25 Men may devyne and glosen up and doun.
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