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his instrumente to make melodye, so dothe the resonable soule
vse the body for his instrumente; And lyke wyse as the harper
can not make nor shewe no melodye with his harpe, ex-
cepte it be strynged and in tewne, no more can the reaso ┌na┐ ble
soule vse nor haue his operacion in the body nor shewe
no reason with the body whiche is his instrumente, by cause
it is not perfytyde nor tewned, And lyke wyse as the
harper hath his connynge and properte of harpynge, all though
he lake his harpe and though his instrument, his harpe
be not perfytytyd and tewnyd and though he can not shewe
his connynge and properte with his instrument that is vnperfyte,
so lyke wyse the soule in the body of the yonge chylde
hath his properte of vnderstandynge though it can not
be shewed with that vnperfyte body whiche is his instrumente.
The differens betwene the memorye and phantasye of AComyngo. yet is there one thynge wherin I am not
brute beste and the soule of man, and that all sciens is in
mannys soule at the begynnynge..Caput. xvj.
fully satisfyed, yf so be the soule of man haue his
perfeccion of vnderstandynge in the begynnynge beynge
in the body of such an infante, then when that the infante
comethe to perfyte Age of Discression, that reasonable
soule beyng in hym shulde haue remembrans and
memorye of suche thynges that he dyd in his infancy
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