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. XIII.
1 Veyne forsothe ben alle men, in whiche
vnderlith not the kunnyng of God; and
of tho that ben seen goode thingus, thei
my&yogh;ten not vndirstonde hym, that is, ne
to the werkis takende heed, knewen who
was craftis man;
2 but or fyr, or spirit, or
swift eir, or cumpas of sterres, or ful
myche watir, or sunne, or moone, the
gouernoures of the roundnesse of londis
goddis wenden;
3 in whos fairnesse delitid,
if thei wenden goddis, wite they, hou
myche `than these the lordshipere of
hem is the fairere; the getere forsothe
of fairnesse alle these thingus ordeynede.
4 Or if the vertue and werkis of them
thei wndreden, vnderstonde they of tho
thingis, for he that made these thingis,
is strengere than tho;
5 forsothe of the
mykilnesse of fairnesse, and of creature,
knowendeli shal moun the creatour
of these ben seen.
6 But `ner the latere
&yogh;it in these lasse pleynt is; and these
forsothe parauenture erren, sechende God,
and willende to finden.
7 And forsothe in
the werkys of hym whan thei ben often
turnende, and sechen, and ful shewid
han, for goode thingis ben, that ben seen.
8 Eft forsoothe ne to these owith to be for&yogh;ouen.
9 If forsothe so myche thei my&yogh;ten
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kunne, that the world thei my&yogh;ten eymen,
hou the lord of this li&yogh;tliere thei founden
not?
10 Vnseli forsothe thei ben, and among
the deade the hope of them is, that clepeden
goddis the werkis of the hondis
of men, gold, and siluer, the finding of
craft, and the licnesses of bestes, or vnprofitable
ston, the werc of the olde hond.
11 Or if any crafti man, forgere, hewe of
the wode an euene tree, and of this
ta&yogh;tli pare awei al the rinde, and, vsid
his craft diligentli, forge a vessel vnprofitable
in to conuersacioun of lif;
12 the
tother forsothe of his werk to the making
of mete vse;
13 and the tother of these
thingis, that to noon vse, a crokid tree,
and ful of knarres, he maketh, that he
graue diligentli bi his voidenesse, and bi
the kunnyng of his craft figure it, and
licne it to an ymage of man,
14 or to sum
of bestes it he comparisoune, thur&yogh; drawende
with a reuler, and make the colour
of it with red, and broun, and eche spot,
that is in it,
15 ful `daubende with erthe,
and make it a wrthi dwelling, puttende
it in a wal, and fastnende with iren,
lest parauenture it falle;
16 beholdende to
it, witende, for it mai not helpen theself;
forsothe an ymage it is, and nede
is to it helpe.
17 And of his substaunce,
and of his sones, and of sposailes, makende
auow, ensercheth; he shameth not
to speke with it, that withoute soule is;
and for helthe forsothe the feble he besecheth,
18
and for lif he pre&yogh;eth the deade,
and in to helpe he inwardli clepeth the
vnprofitable.
19 And for the going asketh
of it, that may not go; and of purchasing,
and of werching, and of the chauns
of alle thingus he asketh of it, that in
alle thingys ys vnprofitable.
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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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