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. XIV.
1 Blisful the man, that is not sliden in wrd
fro his mouth, and is not prickid in sorewi
slouthe of gilte.
2 Sely, `or blessid, that
hadde not sorewi slouthe of his inwit, and
falleth not awei fro his hope.
3 To the coueitous
man, and hard, withoute resoun
is substaunce; and to an enuyous man,
wherto gold?
4 Who hepith of his inwit
vnri&yogh;twisly, to othere men gedereth; and
in the goodis of hym an other shal don
leccherie.
5 Who to hymself is shreude, to
what other shal he ben good? and he shal
not ben merie in his goodus.
6 No thing is
wers, than he that enuyeth to hymself;
and that is the &yogh;elding of his malice.
7 And if he shul weel don, vnwitendely,
and not wilnende he doth; and in the
laste he shewith his malice.
8 Shreude is
the e&yogh;e of the pale, and turnende awei
face, and dispisende his soule.
9 Vnfillable
the e&yogh;e of the coueitous; in to the
part of wickidnesse he shal not be fild,
to the tyme that he fulli ende vnri&yogh;twisnesse,
makende drie his soule.
10 The euele
e&yogh;e to eueles, and nedy shal not ben fild
with bred; and in sorewi slouthe he shal
be vp on his bord.
11 Sone, if thou hast,
wel do with thee, and offre to God wrthi
offringis.
12 Be thou myndeful for deth
shal not tarien, and the testament of
helle, that is shewid to thee; the testament
forsothe of this world bi deth shal
dien.
13 Biforn deth wel do to thi frend,
and aftir thi strengthis puttende out &yogh;if
to the pore.
14 Be thou not bigilid fro the
good day, and the parcel of the goode
day passe thee not.
15 Whether not to
othere thou shalt lefe thi sorewis, and
thi trauailes?
16 In departing of lot &yogh;if, and
tac; and iustefie thi soule.
17 Bifor thi deth
werch ri&yogh;twisnesse; for to finde mete is
-- --
not anent helle.
18 Eche flesh as hei&yogh; shal
waxe old, and as a lef beryng frut in a
grene tree.
19 Othere ben iendred, and
othere fallen doun; so ieneracioun of
flesh and of blod, an other is endid,
and an other is born.
20 Eche coruptible
werc in the ende shal faile; and he that
wercheth it, shal go with it.
21 And eche
chosen werc shal be iustefied; and he that
wercheth it, shal be wrshipid in it.
22 Blisful
the man, that shal dwelle in wisdam,
and that in ri&yogh;twisnesse sweteli shal
thenke, and in wit shal thenke the looking
aboute of God.
23 Who thenketh out
the weies of hym in his herte, and in
hid thingus of it vnderstonding shal be;
goende aftir it as enserchere, and in the
weies of it beende stille.
24 Who byholdeth
bi the wyndowes of it, and in the &yogh;atis of
it is herende;
25 who resteth biside the
hous of it, and in the walles of it `piccheth
a pale. He shal ordeyne his litle
hous at the hondis of it, and ther shuln
reste in the litle houses of it goodis, bi
aungelis during;
26 he shal setten his sonus
vnder the roof of it, and vnder the
braunchis of it he shal wone;
27 he shal
be defendid vnder the roof of it fro brennende
hete, and in the glorie of it he
shal reste.
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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