“Eke, this is an opinion of some

That have hir top ful high and smoth ishore;

Thei sain right thus; that thing is nat to come

For-that the prescience hath sene before,

That it shal come: but thei sain that therefore

That it shall come, therefore the purveiaunce

Wote it beforne withouten ignoraunce.

“And in this maner, this necessite,