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. XXI.
1 Sone, hast thou synned? ne adde thou
to eftsoone; but of thi rathere louly
preye, that to thee thei be for&yogh;yuen.
2 As fro the face of a shadewe eddere flee
-- --
synnes; and if thou schalt ne&yogh;he to
them, thei shul take thee.
3 The teeth of
a leoun the teth of it, sleende the soules
of men.
4 As a swerd two bitende eche
wickidnesse; of the wounde of it is no
helthe.
5 A&yogh;een chiding and wrongis to
no&yogh;t shul bringe substaunce; and the
hous that ful myche is riche, shal be
bro&yogh;t to no&yogh;t bi pride; so the substaunce
of the proude shal be taken vp bi the
roote.
6 The lowe pre&yogh;yng of the pore fro
the mouth vnto the ere shal come; and
dom hastili shal com to hym.
7 Who hateth
chastising, the step is of a synnere;
and who dredeth God, shal ben conuertid
to his herte.
8 Knowen fro aferr is the
my&yogh;ty in fool hardy tunge; and the
weel felende woot hym to slyde fro
hym.
9 Who bildith his hous with other
mennes costes, as that gedereth his
stonus in wynter.
10 A flax top gedered
togidere the synagoge of synneres; and
the ful ending of them flawme of fyr.
11 The weie of synneres togidere plauntid
with stones; and in to the ende of them
helle, and peynes, and derknesses.
12 Who
shal kepe ri&yogh;twisnesse, shal withholde
the wyt of hym.
13 Ful ending of the
drede of God wisdam and wit.
14 He shal
not be lerned, that is not wis in goode.
15 Ther is forsothe vnwisdam, that abundeth
in euel; and there is not wit, where
is bitternesse.
16 The kunnyng of the wise
man as flowing shal abunde; and the
counseil of hym as a welle of lif abit
stille.
17 The herte of the fool as a vessel
to-broken; and alle wisdam shal not
holden.
18 A wis wrd what euer he shal
heren, the kunnyng shal preisen, and
echen. The leccherous herde, and it shal
displesen hym; and he shal throwe it
bihinde his bac.
19 The telling of a fool
-- --
as berthen in the weie; for in the lippes
of the wel felende shal be founde grace.
20 The mouth of the prudent is so&yogh;te in
the chirche; and the wrdis of hym thei
shul thenke in ther hertes.
21 As an hous
set out of termes, so a wisdam to a fool;
and the kunnyng of the mys felende vntellable
wrdis.
22 Gyues in feet doctrine to
a fool; and as bondis of hondis vpon the
ri&yogh;t hond.
23 The fool in la&yogh;hing enhaunceth
his vois; forsothe a wis man vnnethe
stilleli shal la&yogh;hen.
24 A goldene ournement
doctrine to the prudent; and as an
armcercle in the ri&yogh;t arm.
25 The foot of
the fool li&yogh;t in to the hous of the ne&yogh;hebore;
and a wis man shal be confoundid
of the persone of the my&yogh;ty.
26 The fool
fro the wyndowe biholdith in to the
hous; the lered man forsothe withoute
shal stonde.
27 The folie of a man to herknen
thur&yogh; the dores; and the prudent
shal be greued with strif.
28 The lippes of
vnprudent men folies shul tellen; the
wrdis forsothe of prudent men in a balaunce
shul ben peisid.
29 In the mouth of
foolis the herte of hem; and in the herte
of wise men the mouth of hem.
30 Whan
the vnpitouse curseth the deuel, he curseth
his owne soule.
31 The rownende grucchere
shal defoule his soule, and in alle
thingus he shal ben hatyd, and that
abideth, shal ben hatid; the stille and
the wel felende shal ben wrshipid.
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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