rbres, et touttes manieres

of plantes, or ben elemented vegetables and sensytyves, as ben
de plantes, ou sont elementees uegetables et sensitiues, come sont

all beestes, byrdes, fyshes, reptyll them movyng from place to
other,
touttes bestes, oiseaulz, poissons, reptiles se mouuant de lieu a
aultre,

or ben elemented vegetables sensytyves and reasonable, as ben the
ou sont elementees uegetables sensitiues et racionelles, come sont les

men whiche have in them all the fours proprietees above sayd;
hommes lesquelz ont en eulz touttes les quatre proprietes dessus dictes;

for as touchyng the body (which is a masse elemented) it is but a
car quant au corps (qui est une masse elementee) ce nest que une

conglutination and combination of the foure elementes in the whiche our
conglutination, et combination des quatre elementes ezquelz nostre

Lorde hath planted the soule vegetable by the whiche it groweth in
length,
Seigneur a plante lame uegetable par laquelle il croist en longeur,

largenes, and depnes (whiche one calle thre dimensions) by cause that
the
largeur et profundite (quon dit trois dimensions) a cause que la

sayd vegetable hath in her foure vertues, by the whiche she
subsiste and
dicte uegetable a en soy quatre uertus, par lesquelles elle
subsiste et

groweth, that is to saye, the atractyve or appetityve, the retentyve,
the digestyve,
croist, cest a scauoir, latractiue ou appetitiue, la retentyue,
la degestiue,

and expulsive; a body may nat ete without appetit, nor may nat
et expulsiue; une personne ne peult menger sans appetit, ne ne peult

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degeste without holdyng that mete, or keping in his stomake that which
is eten,
degerer sans retenir ce qui est menge,

nor may nat grow by the vertue of such