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. XXXVIII.
1 Honoure the leche, for nede; forsothe
hym foormede the he&yogh;est.
2 Of God forsothe
is alle leching; and fro the king he
schal take &yogh;yuyng.
3 The disciplyne of
the leche shal enhaunse the hed of hym;
and in the si&yogh;te of grete men he shal ben
preisid.
4 The he&yogh;est foormede of the
erthe medycyne; and the prudent man
shal not agrisen it.
5 Whether not of the
tree is mad sweete the bitter water?
6 At
the knowleching of men the vertue of
them; and the he&yogh;est &yogh;af to men kunnyng,
to be wrshipid in his merueiles.
7 In these thingus he curende shal swage
sorewen, and the oynement makere shal
make pymentis of swotenesse, and enoyntingus
he shal make of helthe; and the
werkis of hym shul not ben ful endid.
8 The pes forsothe of God vpon the face
of the erthe.
9 My sone, in thin infirmytee
ne dispise thou thiself; but prei the Lord,
and he shal cure thee.
10 Turne awei fro
gilte, and dresse thou the hondis, and fro
alle gilte clense thin herte.
11 &YOGH;if swetnesse,
and mynde of tried flour, and mac
fat the offring; and &yogh;if stede to the
leche.
12 Forsothe the Lord foormede hym,
and go he not awei fro thee; for his
werkis ben nedeful.
13 Ther is forsothe
tyme, whan thou renne in to the hondis
of hem.
14 Thei forsothe the Lord shul
louly prei&yogh;en, that he ri&yogh;t reule the reste
of hem, and helthe for ther conuersacioun.
15 Who gilteth in his si&yogh;t, that made
hym, shal falle in to the hondus of the
leche.
16 Sone, in to the deade bringe forth
teris, and as harde thingus suffrid bigyn
to wepe; and aftir dom touche his body,
and dispise thou not the biriyng of hym.
17 For the acusing forsothe bitterly ber
weilyng `of hym o dai; and tac coumfort
for heuynesse.
18 And do weilyng
after the deseruyng of hym o dai, or two,
-- --
for bacbiting.
19 Of sorewi slouthe forsothe
hee&yogh;eth deth, and couereth vertue;
and sorewi slouthe of herte boowith the
nol.
20 In ledyng awei dwellith stille sorewy
slouthe; and the substaunce of the
helpeles aftir the herte of hym.
21 Ne &yogh;yue
thou thin herte in sorewy slouthe, but
putte it awei fro thee; and haue mynde
of the laste thingus, and wile thou not
for&yogh;eten.
22 Ne forsothe ther is conuersacioun,
and to this thou schalt no thing
profiten; and thi self thou shalt werst
treten.
23 Myndeful be thou of my dom;
so forsothe it shal ben and thin, to me
&yogh;istay, and to thee to day.
24 In the reste
of the deade mac to resten the mynde of
hym; and coumforte hym in the goyng
out of his spirit.
25 Wisdom wrijt in tyme
of voydenesse; and who is lassid in deede,
wisdom shal parceyue; for with wisdom
he shal be fulfild.
26 Who holdeth the plo&yogh;,
and who glorieth in the spere, with the
pricke stereth the oxen, and woneth in
the werkis of hem; and the telling of
hym in the sonus of booles.
27 His herte
he shal &yogh;yue `to ben turned the forewis;
and the wach of it in the fatnesse of kyn.
28 So eche smythe, and cheef werkere, the
whyche the ny&yogh;t as the day ouerdoth;
the whyche grauede grauen broochis, and
the bysynesse of hym varieth the peynture;
his herte he shal &yogh;yue into the
licnesse of peynture, and his waking parformeth
the werk.
29 So the iren smyth
sittende biside the stithie, and biholdende
the werk of the iren, the humour of the
fyr brenneth his flesh; and in the hete of
the furneys he trauailith with stryif.
30 The vois of hamer ennewith his ere;
and a&yogh;en the licnesse of the vessel the
e&yogh;e of hym.
31 His herte he shal &yogh;yue in
to the ful ending of the werkis; and his
waking shal enourne the inparfitnesse.
32 So the crockere sittende at his werk,
turnende with his feet the whel, the
-- --
whiche in besynesse is put euermor for
his werk; and with oute noumbre is al
the werking of hym.
33 In his arm he shal
foormen the cley; and bifoorn his feet he
shal crooken his vertue.
34 His herte he
shal &yogh;yue, that he ful ende the daubing;
and his waking shal clense the furneys.
35 Alle these in ther hondis hopeden; and
echon in ther `craft is wys.
36 Withoute
alle these `is not bild vp the cyte.
37 And
thei shul not wonen in, ne gon in; and
in to the chirche thei shul not ouerlepen.
38 Vpon the sete of the domys man thei
shul not sitte; and the testament of dom
thei shul not vnderstonde, ne maken
opene disciplyne, and dom; and in parablis
thei shul not ben founde.
39 But the
creature of spirituel tyme thei shul confermen,
and the lowe pre&yogh;ing of hem in
werking of craft; leeuende to ther soule,
and togidere sechende in the lawe of the
he&yogh;este.
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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