no
necessite
to ?
Chaucer - Boethius
but ?
at ?
ilke ?
inge[s] ?
at ?
e p{re}scie{n}ce
woot byforn [ne] mowen nat vnbitide. ? at is to
seyn ? at ? ei moten bitide.
[Sidenote: If divine prescience imposes no necessity upon future
things, must not the issue of things be voluntary, and man's will
free and unconstrained? ]
? But ? an yif ? at p{re}science
ne putte?
no necessite to ? inges to comen. as ? ou ? i self 4680
hast confessed it {and} byknowen a litel herbyforn{e}.
? what [[pg 162]]
cause [or what] is it. as who sei? ? ere may no cause be.
by whiche ? at ? e endes (exitus) uoluntarie of ? inges
my? ten be constreyned to certeyne bitydyng.
[Sidenote: For argument sake let us suppose there is no
prescience, would, then, the events which proceed from free-will
alone be under the power of necessity?
woot byforn [ne] mowen nat vnbitide. ? at is to
seyn ? at ? ei moten bitide.
[Sidenote: If divine prescience imposes no necessity upon future
things, must not the issue of things be voluntary, and man's will
free and unconstrained? ]
? But ? an yif ? at p{re}science
ne putte?
no necessite to ? inges to comen. as ? ou ? i self 4680
hast confessed it {and} byknowen a litel herbyforn{e}.
? what [[pg 162]]
cause [or what] is it. as who sei? ? ere may no cause be.
by whiche ? at ? e endes (exitus) uoluntarie of ? inges
my? ten be constreyned to certeyne bitydyng.
[Sidenote: For argument sake let us suppose there is no
prescience, would, then, the events which proceed from free-will
alone be under the power of necessity?
