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. XLI.
1 O! deth, hou bitter is thi mynde to
an vnri&yogh;twis man, and hauende pes in
his substaunces;
2 to a quyete man, and
whos weies ben ri&yogh;t stra&yogh;t in alle thingus,
and &yogh;it my&yogh;ti to taken mete.
3 O! deth,
good is thi dom to a man nedy, and that
is lassid in strengthe,
4 failende thur&yogh; age,
and to whom of alle thingus is cure, and
to the vnbeleeueful, that leeseth wisdam.
5 Wile thou not dreden the dom of deth;
haue mynde what biforn thee weren, and
what vp on ben to come to thee; this
dom fro the Lord to alle flesh.
6 And
that shuln ouercomen to thee in the
wel plesid thing of the he&yogh;est; whether
ten, or an hundred, or a thousend &yogh;er.
7 Forsothe ther is not in helle acusing of
lif.
8 The sonus of abhominaciouns ben
mad the sonus of synneres; and that wonen
biside the housis of vnpitous men.
9 The eritage of the sonus of synneres shal
pershen; and with the sed of hem the
besynesse of repref.
10 Of the vnpitouse fader
pleynen, `or weilen, sonus, for for hym
thei ben in repref.
11 Wo to &yogh;ou, vnpitous
men, that han forsaken the lawe of the
he&yogh;est Lord.
12 And if &yogh;ee shul ben born, in
cursing &yogh;ee shul ben born; and if &yogh;ee shul
dien, in cursing shal be &yogh;oure part.
13 Alle
thingus that of the erthe ben, in to erthe
shul ben turned; so vnpitouse men fro
cursing in to perdicioun.
14 The weylyng
of men in the body of hem; the name
forsothe of vnpitous men shal ben don
awey.
15 Cure haue thou of a good name;
that forsothe more shal abide stille with
-- --
thee, than a thousend grete tresores and
precious.
16 Of good lif the noumbre of
da&yogh;es; forsothe good name shal abide stille
in to the spirituel world.
17 Disciplyne in
pes kepeth, &yogh;ee sonus; hid forsothe wisdam,
and tresor vnseen, what profit in
euere either?
18 Betere is a man that hidith
hys folie, than a man that hidith his
wisdam.
19 `Ner the latere turneth a&yogh;een in
these thingus that gon out of my mouth.
20 Forsothe it is not good to waiten aboute,
`or to kepen, alle vnreuerence, and not
alle thingus in alle plesen in feith.
21 Shame
&yogh;ee of the fader, and of the moder, of
fornycacioun; and fro the cheef sittere,
and of the my&yogh;ty,
22 of lesyng; and of the
prince, and of the domes man, of gilte;
of the synagoge, and of the folc, of wickidnesse;
of felawe,
23 and of frend, of vnri&yogh;twisnesse;
24 and of the place in the
whiche thou dwellist, of thefte; of the
treuthe of God, and the testament; of
sitting doun in loeues, and of the derknyng
of the &yogh;oue thing, and of taken;
fro men salutende, of stillnesse;
25 fro
biholdyng of a fornycarie womman, and
fro the turnyng awei of the chere of the
cosyn.
26 Ne turne thou awei face fro thi
ne&yogh;hebore; and fro taking awei part,
and not restoring.
27 Bihold thou not a
womman of an other man; and ne enserche
thou the hand womman of hym,
and stonde thou not at the bed of hir.
28 Bewar of frendus, of wrdus of repref;
and whan thou hast &yogh;yue, ne vpbreide
thou.
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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