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. XXV.
1 In thre thingus plesid is to my spirit,
that ben proued bifor God and man;
the acord of brethern,
2 and the looue of
ne&yogh;hebores, and man and womman wel
to themself consentende.
3 Thre spices
hatede my soule, and I am greued gretli
to the soule of them;
4 a pore man proud,
and a riche man a liere, and an old
man a fool and dotid.
5 What thingis in
thi &yogh;outhe thou hast not gedered, hou
shalt thou finde in thin eelde?
6 How fair
the dom in hoornesse, and to prestis to
knowe kounseil.
7 How fair to olde men
wisdam, and glorious vnderstonding, and
counseil.
8 The coroun of olde men myche
wisdam; and the glorie of them dred of
God.
9 Nyne vnouertrowable thingus of
the herte I magnefiede; and the tenthe
I shal telle in tunge to men.
10 A man
that is io&yogh;id in sones lyuende, and seende
the turnyng vpsodoun of his enemys.
11 Blisful that dwellith with a womman
weel felende, and that in his tunge is
not slyden, and that seruede not to the
vnwrthi hymself.
12 Blisful that findith a
verre frend, and that telleth out ri&yogh;twisnesse
to the herende ere.
13 Hou gret that
findith wisdam and kunnyng; but not
ouer the dredende God.
14 The drede of
God ouer alle thingus hymself sett aboue.
15 Blisful the man to whom it is &yogh;oue to
han the drede of God; who holdith it,
to whom shal he be licned?
16 The dred of
God the bigynnyng of his looue; the bygynnyng
forsothe of feith is to be ioyned
to hym.
17 Alle veniaunce is the drery
slowthe of herte; and eche malice the
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wickidnesse of a womman.
18 And eche
wounde, and not wounde she shal seen
of herte;
19 and al shreudenesse, and not
shreudenesse of a womman;
20 and al hid
thing, and not hid thing of hatende men;
and al veniaunce,
21 and not veniaunce of
enemys.
22 There is not an hed wickidere
ouer the hed of a shadewe eddere;
23 and
there is not wrathe ouer the wrathe of
a womman. To dwelle with a leoun
and a dragoun more shal plesen, than
to wone with a shreude womman.
24 The
shreudenesses of a womman chaungeth
hir face; and she a&yogh;een blendide hir
cheere as a bere, and as a sac she shal
shewen in the myddel of ne&yogh;hebores.
25 The housebond of hir gretli weilede;
and herende, si&yogh;hede a litil.
26 Short alle
malice ouer the malice of a womman;
the lot of synnes falle vpon hir.
27 As a
graueli stee&yogh;ing vp in the feet of an old
man, so a tungy womman to a quyete
man.
28 Ne beholde thou the fairnesse of
a womman, and coueite thou not a womman
in fairnesse.
29 The wrathe of a womman
and the mysreuerence, gret shenshipe.
30 A womman if she haue maistrie,
she is contrarie to hir housebond.
31 A loe&yogh;
herte, and a dreri face, and a wounde of
deth, a shreude womman.
32 Feble hondis
and vnloosid knees, a womman that maketh
not blisful hir housebond.
33 Of a womman
is mad the bigynnyng of synne;
and bi hir alle wee die.
34 &YOGH;yue thou not
to thi watir issue, ne a litil; ne to a
shreude womman for&yogh;yuenesse, `or leeue,
or fredam, of goyng out.
35 If she `schal
not go to thin hond, she shal confounde
thee in the si&yogh;te of enemys.
36 Fro
thi flesh kut hir awei, lest euermore sche
mysvse thee.
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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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