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comme, C. comune
4493 _come_--comyn
4494 _to_--omitted
4494-95 _purueid_--MS. p{ur}ueide, C. p{ur}ueyid
4498 [_. s. _]--from C.
4499 _fredome_--freedom
4500 _wille_--wil
4501 [_certes_]--from C.
4504 _puruei? _--MS. p{ur}uei? e
[_the_]--from C.
4506 _bitiden_--bytydden
_som tyme_--whilom
4509 _o_--a
_self_--selue
4510 _? inge_--thing
4511 _? ilk[e]_--thilke
4513 _? inge_--thing
4514 _last[e]_--laste
4515 _nys_--is]

[Headnote:
FREEDOM OF THE HUMAN WILL.
]

[Sidenote: If, therefore, a thing be so to happen that the event
of it is neither necessary nor certain, how can any one foresee
what is to happen? ]

? wher-fore yif any ? ing be so to comen so ? at
? e bytydynge of it ne be nat certeyne ne necessarie.
? who may weten [byforn] ? {a}t ? ilke ? ing is to come.

[Sidenote: For as pure knowledge has no element in it of
falsehood, so what is comprehended by true knowledge cannot be
otherwise than as comprehended. ]

? For ry? t as science ne may nat be medelyd wi? falsnesse.