O qui perpetua mundum racione gubernas Terrarum celi{que} sator. qui tempus ab euo Ire iubes. stabilis{que} manens. das cuncta moueri Quem non externe pepulerunt fingere cause
O Thou fader souerayne and creatour of heuen and of erthes / that gouernest this worlde by perdurable rea∣son / Thou comandest the tymes to goon̄ syn that aage had begynnyng. Thou that dwellist thy self stidfaste & stable and yeuest alle other thinges to be moeuid. ne foreyn cau∣ses necessed the neuer to compowne werke of flotering ma∣ter / but onely the fourme of souerayn̄ good ysette with in the withoute enuye / that meeuyd the frely that thou arte alther feyrest bering the fayr world in thy thought four∣medest this world to the likenesse semblable of that fayre world in thy thoughte. Thou deawese all thinges on thy souerayne examplir and commandest th••t this worlde per∣fytly ymaked haue frely and absolute his parfyte {per}ties Thou byndest the elementes by nombres {pro}porcienables that the cold thinges mowen accorde with the hoote thinges. And the drye thinges with the moiste. that the fire that is pured ne flee not ouer hye / ne that the heuynes ne drawe