Over the whichë day they may not pace, 877 All 878 may they yet their dayës well abridge. There needeth no authority to allëge For it is proved by experience; But that me list declarë my senténce. 879 Then may men by this order well discern, That thilkë 880 mover stable is and etern. Well may men know, but that it be a fool, That every part deriveth from its whole. For nature hath not ta’en its beginning Of no partie nor cantle 881 of a thing, But of a thing that perfect is and stable, Descending so, till it be corruptáble. And therefore of his wisë purveyance 882 He hath so well beset

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