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. VIII.
1 Stryue thou not with a my&yogh;ti man,
lest parauenture thou falle in the hondys
of hym.
2 Striue thou not with a riche
man, lest parauenture a&yogh;enward he sette
strif to thee.
3 Manye men forsothe gold
and siluer hath lost; and vnto the herte
of kingus it streccheth,
4 and turneth.
Striue thou not with a tungy man, and ne
greithe thou in to the fir of hym wode.
5 Comune thou not to a man vnta&yogh;t, lest
he speke euele of thi progenye.
6 Dispise
thou not a man turnende awei hymself
fro synne, ne putte thou repref to
hym; haue mynde, for alle in corupcioun
wee ben.
7 Ne dispise thou a man
in his elde; forsothe of vs thei waxen
olde.
8 Wile thou not of thin enemy dead
io&yogh;en, witende for alle wee dien, and in
to io&yogh;e wee wiln come.
9 Dyspise thou
not the telling of wise prestis, and in the
prouerbis of hem togidere dwelle thou;
-- --
of hem forsothe thou shalt lerne wisdam,
10
and doctrine of vndirstonding, and fructuousli
vse grete men withoute pleynt.
11 Passe not biside thee the telling of elderes;
thei forsothe lerneden of ther fadris.
12 For of hem thou shalt lerne vnderstonding;
and in tyme of nede thou shalt
&yogh;yue an answere.
13 Teende thou not colis
of synneres, vndirnymende hem; and lest
thou be tend with the flaume `of the fyr
of the synnes of hem.
14 Stonde thou not
a&yogh;en the face of the strifful; lest he sitte
as a spiere to thi mouth.
15 Wile thou not
leenen to a man strengere than thiself;
that if thou leenest, haue it as lost.
16 Behote
thou not ouer thi vertue; that if
thou behote, as &yogh;elding bethenk.
17 Deme
thou not a&yogh;en the iuge; for after that ys
ri&yogh;twis, he demeth.
18 With a fool hardy
man go thou not in the weie, lest par
auenture he gregge his eueles in thee;
he forsothe aftir his wil goth, and togidere
with the folie of hym thou shalt
pershen.
19 With the wratheful man make
thou not ianglyng, and with the fool
hardy go thou not in to desert; for as
no&yogh;t is anent hym blod, and where is
not helpe, he shal hurtle thee doun.
20 With fooles haue thou not counseil; forsothe
they shul not moun loouen, but
tho thingus that plesen to them.
21 Beforn
a straunger make thou not counseil; forsothe
thou wost not, what he bere out.
To alle men thin herte opene thou not;
lest par auenture it bringe in to thee fals
grace, and yt poote reproof to thee.
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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