_Boece._ 'Thou hast seyd rightfully,' quod I. 75
_Philosophie._ 'But we han graunted,' quod she, 'that the soverein good is blisfulnesse.'
'Thanne,' quod she, 'moten we nedes graunten and confessen that thilke same soverein good be god.' 80
'Certes,' quod I, 'I ne may nat denye ne withstonde the resouns purposed; and I see wel that it folweth by strengthe of the premisses.'
'Loke now,' quod she, 'yif this be proved yit more fermely thus: that ther ne mowen nat ben two soverein goodes that 85 ben dyverse amonge hem-self. For certes, the goodes that ben dyverse amonges hem-self, that oon nis nat that that other is; thanne ne [may] neither of hem ben parfit, so as either of hem lakketh to other. But that that nis nat parfit, men may seen apertly that it nis nat soverein. The thinges, thanne, that 90 ben sovereinly goode, ne mowen by no wey ben dyverse. But I have wel concluded that blisfulnesse and god ben the soverein good; for whiche it mot nedes ben, that soverein blisfulnesse is soverein divinitee.'
'Nothing,' quod I, 'nis more soothfast than this, ne more 95 ferme by resoun; ne a more worthy thing than god may nat ben concluded.'
'Up-on thise thinges thanne,' quod she, 'right as thise geometriens, whan they han shewed hir proposiciouns, ben wont to bringen in thinges that they clepen porismes, _or declaraciouns 100 of forseide thinges_, right so wole I yeve thee heer as a corollarie, _or a mede of coroune_. For-why, for as moche as by the getinge of blisfulnesse men ben maked blisful, and blisfulnesse is divinitee: thanne is it manifest and open, that by the getinge of divinitee men ben maked blisful. Right as by the getinge 105 of Iustice [they ben maked iust], and by the getinge of sapience they ben maked wyse: right so, nedes, by the semblable resoun, whan they han geten divinitee, they ben maked goddes. Thanne is every blisful man god; but certes, by nature, ther nis but o god; but, by the participacioun of divinitee, ther ne let ne 110 desturbeth nothing that ther ne ben manye goddes.'
'This is,' quod I, 'a fair thing and a precious, clepe it as thou wolt; be it porisme or corollarie,' _or mede of coroune or declaringes_.
'Certes,' quod she, 'nothing nis fayrer than is the thing that 115 by resoun sholde ben added to thise forseide thinges.'