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. IX.
1 Wisdam bilde out to hym an hous;
heew out seuen pileris,
2 offride his sacrifises
of victorie, mengde win, and sette
forth his bord.
3 He sente his hand wymmen,
that thei shulde clepe to the hei&yogh;te;
and to the wallis of the cite.
4 If any is a
litil child; come he to me. And to vnwise
men he spac, Cometh, etith my bred;
5
and drinketh win, that I mengde to &yogh;ou.
Forsaketh childhed,
6 and liueth, and goth
bi the weies of prudence.
7 Who lerneth
a scornere, doth wrong he to hymself;
and who vndernemeth the vnpitouse, to
hymself a wem gendrith.
8 Wile thou not
vndernyme the scornere; lest he shul hate
thee. Vndirnym the wise man; and he
shal looue thee.
9 &YOGH;if to the wise man ocasioun;
and ther shal ben addid to hym
wisdam. Tech the ri&yogh;twis man; and he
shall hee&yogh;e to take.
10 The begynnyng of
wisdam the drede of the Lord; and the
kunnyng of halewis prudence.
11 Forsothe
bi me shul be multiplied thi da&yogh;es; and
-- --
ben added to thee the &yogh;erys of lif.
12 If a
wis man thou shul be; to thiself thou
shalt be, and to thi ne&yogh;heboris. If forsothe
a gilere; alone thou shalt bern euel.
13 A fool womman, and crious, and ful of
euele dra&yogh;tis to delicis, and no thing
outerli kunnende,
14 sat in the &yogh;ate doris of
hir hous, vpon a sete, in the he&yogh;e place
of the cite;
15 that she my&yogh;te clepe men
passende bi the weie, and men goende in
ther gate.
16 Who is a litil child; bowe he
doun to me. And to the sory hertid she
spac,
17 Stoln watris ben swettere, and hid
bred more swete.
18 And he knew not that
there ben ieauntis; and in the depthis of
helle the gestis of hir. Who forsothe
shal be ioyned to hir; shal falle doun in
to helle. For whi he that goth awey from
hir; shal be saued.
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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