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. XVII.
1 Betere is a drie morsel with io&yogh;e, than
an hous ful of sacrifises of victorie with
strif.
2 A wis seruaunt shal lordshipen
to sones foolis; and among bretheren
eritage he shal deuyde.
3 As bi fyr is
proued siluer, and gold bi the chymney,
so hertes the Lord preueth.
4 The euele
man obesheth to the wicke tunge; and
the desceyuable consenteth to the liende
lippis.
5 Who dispiseth a pore man, mysseyth
to his makere; and who gladeth in
the falling of an other, shal not ben vnpunshid.
6 The croune of olde men sones
of sones; and the glorie of sones the
fadris of hem.
7 There semeth not the
fool faire set woordis; ne the prince a
liende lippe.
8 Most kinde iemme the
abiding of the abidere; whider euere he
turneth hymself, prudentli he vnderstant.
9 Who helith the gilte, secheth
frenshipis; who with an other sermoun
reherceth, seuereth the federed.
10 Mor
profiteth correccioun anent the prudent,
than an hundrid veniaunces anent the
fol.
11 Euermor striues secheth the euel
man; the cruel forsothe aungil shal be
sent a&yogh;en hym.
12 It spedeth mor to a&yogh;en
come to a she bere, whan hir whelpis
ben take awey, than to a fol trostende
to hymself in his folie.
13 Who &yogh;eldeth
euelis for goodis, shal not go awei euel
fro his hous.
14 Who leueth water, hed is
of striues; and er he suffre wrong blamyng,
dom he forsaketh.
15 And who iustefieth
the vnpitouse, and who condempneth
the ri&yogh;twise, abominable is either
anent God.
16 What profiteth to the fol to
han richessis, whan wisdam bie he mai
-- --
not? Who hei&yogh; maketh his hous, secheth
falling; and who shoneth to lerne,
falleth in to euelis.
17 Alle time looueth,
that is a frend; and a brother in anguysshis
is preued.
18 A fool man shal
for io&yogh;e flappe with hondis, whan he
shal behoten for his frend.
19 Who sweteli
thenketh discordis, looueth striues; and
who enhauncith his herte, secheth falling.
20 Who is of peruertid herte, findeth
not good; and who turneth the tunge,
shal falle in to euel.
21 Born is the fool
in his shenshipe; but ne the fader in
the fol shal glade.
22 Io&yogh;ende inwit maketh
bri&yogh;t age; a drery spirit ful out drieth
bones.
23 &YOGH;iftis of the bosum the vnpitous
taketh, that he peruerte the pathis
of dom.
24 In the face of the prudent
shyneth wisdam; the e&yogh;en of foolis in
the endis of erthe.
25 The wrathe of the
fader a sone fol; the sorewe of the modir
that gat hym.
26 It is not good to bern
in harm to the ri&yogh;twis; ne to smyte a
prince that ri&yogh;t demeth.
27 Who tempreth
his woordis, ta&yogh;t and prudent is; and of
precious spirit the man lerned.
28 The
fool forsothe, if he holde his pes, wis
shal ben holde; if he threste togidere
his lippis, vnderstondende.
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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