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. XXVII.
1 Ne glorie thou in to the moru, vnknowende
what the dai to ouercome
bringe forth.
2 Preise thee an alien, and
not thi mouth; a straunger, and not
thi lippis.
3 Heuy is the ston, and charious
is the grauel; but the wrathe of the
fool is heuyere than either.
4 Wrathe
hath not mercy, ne brekende out wodnesse;
and the bure of the stirid spirit
bern who shall moun?
5 Betere is open
amending, than hid looue.
6 Betere ben
the woundis of the loouere, than the
gileful kosses of the hatere.
7 The soule
fulfild shal to-trede the hony comb; the
soule forsothe hungrende also bitter for
sweete shal take.
8 As a brid ouerpassende
fro his nest, so a man that forsaketh
his place.
9 With oynement and diuers
smellis deliteth the herte; and with
goode counseilis of the frend the soule is
-- --
swetid.
10 Thi frend, and the frend of thi
fader, ne leue thou; and the hous of thi
brother go thou not in, in the dai of thi
tormenting. Betere is a ne&yogh;hebore biside,
than a brother aferr.
11 Studie to
wisdam, sone myn, and glade thou myn
herte; that thou mowe to the repreuere
answern a wrd.
12 The felle seende euel
is hid; litle childer forth passende suffreden
harmys.
13 Tac the clothing of
hym, that behotith for a straunger;
and for an alien tac awei to hym a wed.
14 Who blissith to his ne&yogh;hebore with a
gret vois, fro ny&yogh;t risende, to the cursere
shal be lic.
15 Rooues thur&yogh; droppende in
the dai of cold, and a womman ful of
strif ben comparisound togidere.
16 Who
holdith hir, as he heelde wind; and the
oile of his ri&yogh;t side he auoide out.
17 Iren
with iren is whettid out; and a man
whettith out the face of his frend.
18 Who
kepith a fige tree, shal ete the frutis of
it; and who kepere is of his lord, shal
ben glorified.
19 What maner wise in watris
a&yogh;een shinen the cheres of men lokende;
so the hertes of men ben opened
to prudent men.
20 Helle and perdicioun
neuere ben fulfild; and the e&yogh;en of men
vnfillable.
21 What maner wise siluer is
preued in the &yogh;eting vessel, and gold in
the furneis; so is preued a man in the
mouth of preiseris. The herte of the
wicke sechith out euelis; the ri&yogh;t forsothe
herte secheth out kunnyng.
22 If
thou bete togidere a fool in a morter, as
hoolid barli smytende there vp on the
pestel; shal not ben take awei fro hym
his folie.
23 Bisili knowe thou the chere
of thi beeste; and thi flockis behold.
24 Forsothe thou shalt not han continuelli
power; but a croune shal be &yogh;olde to thee
in ieneracioun of ieneraciouns.
25 Opened
ben the medwis, and apereden greene
erbis; and gedered ben heys fro the hillis.
-- --
26 Lombis ben to thi clothing; and geet to
the pris of the feeld.
27 Suffise to thee the
mylc of got in to thi metes; in to the
necessaries of thin hous, and to liflode to
thin hond wymmen.
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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