[Sidenote: While these things differ from one another they are not goods; but as soon as they become one then they are made goods.--Do not they owe their being good to their unity?]
_p._ þe þinges þan q{ uo}d she þat ne ben none goodes whan þei ben diu{ er}se. { and} whan þei [[pg 96]] bygynnen to ben al o þing. þan ben þei goodes. ne 2685 comiþ it hem nat þan by þe getynge of unite þat þei ben maked goodes.
[Sidenote: _P._ Do you confess that everything that is good becomes such by the participation of the sovereign good or no?]
but alle þing þat is good q{ uo}d she grauntest þou þat it be good by p{ ar}ticipac{ i}ou{ n} 2688 of good or no.
[Linenotes: 2660 _assent[e]_--assente 2662 _mychel_--mochel 2663 _goode_--good 2664 _price_--prys 2669 _is_--omitted _seyne_--seyn 2671 _folke_--folkes 2673 _oþer_--oothre _eche_--ech 2675 _absolute_--absolut _atte arst_--at erste 2676 _al_--alle _a_--O 2677 _to_--omitted _wirchyng_--wyrkynge 2678 _þilk_--thilke 2681 _put_--MS. putte, C. put _au[gh]ten_--owhten 2684 _none_--no 2685 _al o_--alle oon 2686 _comiþ_--comth 2689 _graunt[e]_--graunte]
[Headnote: UNITY NECESSARY TO EXISTENCE.]
[Sidenote: _P._ Then you must own that unity and good are the same (for the substance of those things must be the same, whose effects do not naturally differ).]
¶ þan mayst þou graunt[en] it q{ uo}d she by sembleable resou{ n} þat oon { and} good ben o same þing. ¶ For of þinges [of] whiche þat þe effect nis nat naturely diuerse 2692 nedys þe substaunce mot ben o same þinge.
[Sidenote: _P._ Do you not perceive that everything which exists is permanent so long as it preserves its unity--but as soon as it loses this, it is dissolved and annihilated?]
¶ Hast þou nat knowen wel q{ uo}d she. þat al þing þat is haþ so longe his dwellyng { and} his substaunce. as longe is it oone. ¶ but wha{ n} it 2696 forletiþ to ben oone it mot nedis dien { and} corrumpe togidre.
[Sidenote: _P._ In the animal creation as long as the soul and the body are united and conjoined in one, this being is called an animal or beast, but when the union is dissolved by the separation of these, the animal perishes and is no longer a beast.]
¶ Ry[gh]t as in beestes q{ uod} she. whan þe soule { and} þe body ben co{ n}ioigned in oon { and} dwellen to-gidre it is cleped a 2700 beest. { and} whan hire vnite is destroied by disseueraunce þat oon fram þ{ a}t oþir. þan sheweþ it wel þat it is a dede þi{ n}g. { and} þat it is no lenger no beste.