e
p{re}sence
to ?
Chaucer - Boethius
as who sei?
.
?
ei wenen ?
at ?
is worlde {and} 5020
god ben maked to-gidre eterne. and it is a wrongful
wenynge.
[Sidenote: But it is one thing to be conducted through a life of
infinite duration, which was Plato's opinion of the world, and
another thing to comprehend at once the whole extent of this
duration as present which, it is manifest, can only belong to the
Divine mind. ]
for o? er ? ing is it to ben yladd by lif interminable
as plato graunted[e] to ? e worlde. {and} o? er
? ing is it to embracen to-gidre alle ?
e p{re}sence to ? e lif 5024
interminable. ? e whiche ? ing it is clere {and} manifest
? at it is p{ro}pre to ? e deuine ? ou? t. [[pg 173]]
[Sidenote: Nor ought it to seem to us that God is prior to and
more ancient than his creatures by the space of time, but rather
by the simple and undivided properties of his nature. ]
ne it ne sholde nat
semen to vs ? at god is elder ? an ? inges ? at ben ymaked
by quantite of tyme. but ra?
god ben maked to-gidre eterne. and it is a wrongful
wenynge.
[Sidenote: But it is one thing to be conducted through a life of
infinite duration, which was Plato's opinion of the world, and
another thing to comprehend at once the whole extent of this
duration as present which, it is manifest, can only belong to the
Divine mind. ]
for o? er ? ing is it to ben yladd by lif interminable
as plato graunted[e] to ? e worlde. {and} o? er
? ing is it to embracen to-gidre alle ?
e p{re}sence to ? e lif 5024
interminable. ? e whiche ? ing it is clere {and} manifest
? at it is p{ro}pre to ? e deuine ? ou? t. [[pg 173]]
[Sidenote: Nor ought it to seem to us that God is prior to and
more ancient than his creatures by the space of time, but rather
by the simple and undivided properties of his nature. ]
ne it ne sholde nat
semen to vs ? at god is elder ? an ? inges ? at ben ymaked
by quantite of tyme. but ra?
