Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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CAP. XXXI.
1 I couenauntide a pes couenaunt with
myn e&yogh;en, that forsothe I shulde not
thenke of a maiden.
2 What forsothe part
God fro aboue shulde han in me, and the
Almy&yogh;ti eritage fro he&yogh;e thingus.
3 Whethir
not perdicioun is to the wicke,
and alienyng to men werkende wickenesse?
4 Whether he beholdeth not my
weies, and alle my goingis noumbreth?
5 If I &yogh;ide in vanyte, and my foot hee&yogh;ide
in treccherie,
6 peise he me in a ri&yogh;twis
balauns, and wite God my symplenesse.
7 If my going bowide doun fro the weie;
if myn e&yogh;e folewide myn herte, and a
spot cleuede to myn hondis;
8 I shal
-- --
sowen, and an other ete, and my progenye
be drawe vp bi the roote.
9 If myn
herte is desceyued vp on a womman, and
if at the dore of my frend I sette spies;
the strumpet of an other be my wif,
10 and
vpon hir othere men be thei crookid.
11 This forsothe is vnleeful, and most wickidnesse.
12 Fyr is deuouring vnto wasting,
and pullende vp bi the roote alle buriounyngus.
13 If I dispiside to gon vnder
dom with my seruaunt and hond maiden,
whan thei shulden pleten a&yogh;en me.
14 What
forsothe shal I do, whan God shal rise to
deme? and whan he shal aske, what shal
I answern to hym?
15 Whether not in the
wombe he made me, the whiche and
hym wro&yogh;te, and oon formede me in the
wombe?
16 If I denyede to pore men that
thei wolden, and made the e&yogh;en of a
widewe to abide;
17 if I eet my morsel
alone, and the moderles child eet not of
it;
18 for fro my &yogh;outhe doing of mercy
wex with me, and fro the wombe of my
moder wente out with me;
19 if I dispiside
the goere beside, for thi that he hadde
not clothing, and the pore withoute coueryng;
if his sidis blessiden not to me,
20 and
of the flees of my shep he is chaufid;
21 if
I rerede vp on the moderles child myn
hond, also whan I sa&yogh; me in the &yogh;ate
the ouerhe&yogh;ere;
22 my shulder falle fro his
ioynt, and myn arm with his bones be
to-brosid.
23 Forsothe euermor as flodis
swellende vp on me, I dredde God; and
his peis I my&yogh;te not bern.
24 If I wende
gold my strengthe, and to the shynende
gold I seide, My trost;
25 if I gladede vp
on my manye richessis, and for myn
hond fond manye thingis;
26 if I sa&yogh; the
sunne, whan it shulde shyne, and the
mone goende clerli;
27 and myn herte is
gladid in hid thing, and kiste myn hond
fro my mouth;
28 the whiche is the moste
-- --
wickidnesse, and denyyng a&yogh;en the he&yogh;est
God;
29 if I io&yogh;ide at his falling, that hatide
me, and ful out io&yogh;ide, that euel hadde
founden hym;
30 forsothe I &yogh;af not my
throte to synne, that I shulde abide
cursende his soule;
31 if the men of my
tabernacle seiden not, Who &yogh;iueth of his
fleshe, that we be fulfild?
32 without forth
abod not the pilgrim; my dore was open
to the weie goere;
33 if I hidde as a man
my synne, and hilede in my bosum my
wickenesse;
34 if I dradde at the moste
multitude, and dispising of nee&yogh;h men
ferede me; and not more I heeld my pes,
and wente not out the dore;
35 who &yogh;eue
to me an auditour, that my desyr heere
the Almy&yogh;ti? that he that demeth write
the boc,
36 that in my shulder I bere it,
and enuyroune it as a crowne to me?
37 Bi
alle my grees I shal pronouncen it, and as
to a prince I shal offre it.
38 If a&yogh;en me
myn erthe crie, and with it his forewis
bewepen;
39 if his frutis I eet with oute
monee, and the soule of his erthe tilieris
I tormentide;
40 for whete be sprunge to
me a brimbil, and for a barli a thorne.
Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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