'Ye,' quod I; 'but there-as it is y-sayd that god +saw every-thing of his making, and [they] were right good (as your-selfe sayd to me not longe tyme sithen), I aske whether every creature is y-sayd "good" through goodnesse unfourmed eyther els fourmed; 35 and afterward, if it be accept utterly good?' 'I shal say thee,' quod she. 'These grete passed clerkes han devyded good in-to good being alone, and that is nothing but +god, for nothing is good in that wyse but god: also, in good by participacion, and that is y-cleped "good" for far fet and 40 representative of +godly goodnesse. And after this maner manyfold good is sayd, that is to saye, good in kynde, and good in gendre, and good of grace, and good of joy. Of good in kynde Austen sayth, "al that ben, ben good." But peraunter thou woldest wete, whether of hem-selfe it be good, or els of anothers goodnesse: 45 for naturel goodnesse of every substaunce is nothing els than his substancial being, which is y-cleped "goodnesse" after comparison that he hath to his first goodnesse, so as it is inductatife by menes in-to the first goodnesse. Boece sheweth this thing at the ful, that this name "good" is, in general, name in kynde, as it is comparisoned 50 generally to his principal ende, which is god, knotte of al goodnesse. Every creature cryeth "god us made"; and so they han ful apeted to thilke god by affeccion such as to hem longeth; and in this wyse al thinges ben good of the gret god, which is good alone.' 55 'This wonder thing,' quod I, 'how ye have by many resons proved my first way to be errour and misgoing, and cause[d] of badnesse and feble meninge in the grounde ye aleged to be roted. Whence is it that suche badnesse hath springes, sithen al thinges thus in general ben good, and badnesse hath no being, as ye have 60 declared? I wene, if al things ben good, I might than with the first way in that good have ended, and so by goodnesse have comen to blisse in your service desyred.'