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. V.
1 Wile thou not taken heed to wickide
possessiouns, and ne seye thou, Ther is to
me suffisaunt lif; no thing forsothe it shal
profiten in the tyme of veniaunce, and
of opressing, `or deth.
2 Ne folewe thou in
thi strengthe the coueiting of thin herte,
and ne sey thou,
3 What maner my&yogh;te I,
or who me shal subiecten for my deedis?
4 God forsothe veniende shal venien. Ne
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sey thou, I synnede, and what to me
falleth sorewy? Forsothe the hei&yogh;este is
a pacient &yogh;eldere.
5 Of the for&yogh;yuenesse
of synnes, wile thou not be withoute
drede, ne ley thou to synne vp on synne.
6 And sey thou not, The merci of God is
gret; of the multitude of my synnes he
shal han mercy.
7 Mercy forsothe and
wrathe fro hym soone ne&yogh;heth, and in to
synneres beholdeth the wrathe of hym.
8 Ne tarie thou to be conuertid to the
Lord, and ne putte thou it of fro dai in
to day.
9 Sodeynii forsothe shal come the
wrathe of hym, and in time of veniaunce
he shal distro&yogh;e thee.
10 Wile thou not ben
anguysht in vnri&yogh;t richesses; forsothe
thei shul not profiten in the dai of deth
and of veniaunces.
11 Ne throwe thou thee
out in to eche wynd, and go thou not in
to eche wei; so forsothe a synnere is
proued in double tunge.
12 Be thou stedefast
in the weie of the Lord, and in the
treuthe of thi wit and kunnyng; and
parfitli folewe thee the wrd of pes and
of ri&yogh;twisnesse.
13 Be thou debonere to
here the wrd of God, that thou vnderstonde,
and with wysdam thou schalt
bringe forth `a soth answere.
14 If ther
is to thee vnderstonding, answere to thi
ne&yogh;hebore; elles forsothe thin hond be
vp on thi mouth, lest thou be take in an
vndisciplined wrd, and thou be confoundid.
15 Wrshipe and glorie in the wrd
of the weel felende; the tunge forsothe
of the vnprudent is the turnyng vp so
doun of hym.
16 Be thou not clepid a
twisil tunge, `or a priue bacbiter, in
thi lif, and be thou not take in thi
tunge, and confoundid.
17 Forsothe vp on
a theef is confusioun, and peyne taking,
and werst repref vp on the twisel tunge.
To the priue grucchere forsothe hate,
and enemyte, and strif.
18 Iustefie thou
lic maner the litle and the grete.
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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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