[Linenotes: 2495 [_that_]--from C. 2496 _proces_--p{ro}cesses 2497 _ouȝt[e]_--owen 2498 _goode_--good 2499 _souereyne goode_--souereyn good 2500 [_þat----is_]--from C. _yset_--MS. ysette, C. set 2501 _be_--ben _wiþseid_--MS. wiþseide, C. withseid 2503 _wiþ-outen_--w{i}t{h}-owte 2504 _seid_--MS. seide, C. seyd 2505 _souereyne goode_--souereyn good [_In----I_]--from C. 2506 _ouȝt_--awht 2507 _þan of_--owt of 2508 _whiche_--whych _souereyne goode_--souereyn good 2509 _haþ_--MS. haþe 2510 _þat ilke_--thilke 2511 _were_--weren 2514 _goode_--worth 2517 _from_--fro [_hym_]--from C. 2518 _feyne_--faigne 2519 _feyne_--feigne [_hath_]--from C. 2520 _last[e]_--laste 2521 _o_--a 2522 _whiche_--whych 2524 _from_--fro 2527 _nis_--is 2528 _better_--bettre] [Headnote: THERE CANNOT BE TWO CHIEF GOODS.] [Sidenote: We may therefore conclude that the Author of all things is really and substantially the supreme Good.] ¶ For whiche I may concluden by ryȝt uerray resou{n}. [[pg 91]] þat þilke þat is bygynnyng of alle þinges. þilke same þing is good in his substaunce. [Sidenote: _B._ Most rightly said!] _B._ þou hast seid ryȝtfully q{uo}d .I. [Sidenote: _P._ But you have owned that true felicity is the sovereign good; then you must also grant that God is that true felicity.] _P._ But we han graunted q{uo}d she þat 2532 souereyne good is blysfulnes. þat is soþe q{uo}d .I. þan q{uo}d she mote we nedes graunten {and} confessen þat þilke same souereyne goode be god. [Sidenote: _B._ Your conclusions follow from your premises.] [Sidenote: [* fol. 21 _b_.]] ¶ Certys *q{uo}d .I. I ne may nat denye ne wiþstonde þe resou{n}s p{ur}posed. 2536 and I see wel þat it folweþ by strengþe of þe p{re}misses. [Sidenote: _P._ Let us see whether we cannot prove this more convincingly by considering it in this view, that there cannot be two sovereign goods which differ in themselves.] ¶ Loke nowe q{uo}d she yif þis be proued [yit] more fermely þus. ¶ þat þer ne mowen nat ben two souereyne goodes þat ben diuerse amo[n]ges hem 2540 self. [Sidenote: For it is plain that of the goods that differ one cannot be what the other is; wherefore neither of them can be perfect where one wants the other.] þat on is nat þat þat oþer is. þan [ne] mowen neiþer of hem ben p{er}fit. so as eyþer of hem lakkiþ to oþir. [Sidenote: That which is not perfect cannot be the supreme good.] but þat þat nis nat p{er}fit men may seen apertly þat it nis nat souereyne. [Sidenote: Neither can the chief good be essentially different.]