ne it ne vseþ nat nor of resou{n} ne of ymaginac{i}ou{n} ne of wit wiþ oute forþe but it byholdeþ alle þinges so as I shal seye. by a strok of þouȝt formely wiþ oute disco{ur}s 4804 or collac{i}ou{n} ¶ Certys resou{n} whan it lokeþ any þing vniu{er}sel it ne vseþ nat of ymaginac{i}ou{n} nor of wit {and} algates ȝit [it] co{m}prendiþ þe þinges ymaginable {and} sensible. [Sidenote: For instance, reason defines her general conceptions thus:--] [Sidenote: [* fol. 37 _b_.]] for resou{n} is she þat *diffinisseþ þe vniuersel 4808 of hir conseite ryȝt þus. [[pg 166]] [Sidenote: Man is a rational two-footed animal, which, though it be a general idea, yet every one knows that man thus defined is perceived both by the imagination and the senses, notwithstanding that in this instance reason does not make use of imagination or the senses, but of her own rational conception.] ¶ Man is a resonable t[w]o-footid beest. and how so þat þis knowynge [is] vniuersel. ȝit nys þer no wyȝt þat ne woot wel. þat a ma{n} is [a thing] ymaginable {and} sensible ¶ and þis same co{n}sidereþ wel 4812 resou{n}. but þat nis nat by ymaginac{i}ou{n}. nor by witte. but it lokiþ it by [a] resonable concepc{i}ou{n}. [Sidenote: The imagination also, although it derives its power of seeing and forming figures from the senses, yet in the absence and without the use of the senses it considers and comprehends all sensible things by its own imaginative power.] ¶ Also ymaginac{i}ou{n} al be it so. þat it takeþ of wit þe bygyny{n}g{us} to seen {and} to formen þe figures. algates al þouȝ þat wit 4816 ne ware not p{re}sent. ȝit it envirouniþ {and} co{m}p{re}hendiþ alle þinges sensible. nat by resou{n} sensible of demynge. but by resou{n} ymaginatif. [Sidenote: Do not you see that men attain to the knowledge of things more by their own faculties, than by the inherent property of things?] ¶ sest þou nat þan þat alle þe þinges in knowynge vsen more of hir faculte or of hir 4820 power. þan þei don of [the] faculte or of power of þinges þat ben yknowen. [Sidenote: Nor is it unreasonable that it should be so--for since every judgment is the act of the person judging; every one must needs do his own work by the help of his own faculties, and not by the aid of foreign power.] ne þat nis no wronge. for so as euery iugement is þe dede or þe doynge of hym þat demeþ. It 4823 byhoueþ þat euery wyȝt p{er}forme þe werke {and} hys entenc{i}ou{n} nat of forein power[;] but of hys propre power.