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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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CAP. XV.

1   And the word of the Lord is maad to me, 2   seiynge, Sone of man, what shal be don to tree of the viyn, of alle trees of the wodis, that ben among the trees of woodis? 3   Whether a tree shal be takyn of it, that werk be maad? or a litil paal shal be forchid of it, that eny maner vessel hange in it? 4   Lo! it is &yogh;ouun to the fier in to meet; the fier hath waastid eche either parti of it, and the mydil of it is brou&yogh;t in to a deed broond; whether it shal be profitable to werk? 5   &YOGH;he, whanne it was hool, it was not able to werk; hou myche more whanne fier hath deuouride and brende to gidre, no thing of werk shal be maad of it? 6   Therfor thes thingis seith the Lord God, Hou the tree of viyn amonge the trees of woodis, whom I &yogh;aue to fier for to deuoure, so Y shal bitake the dwellers of Jerusalem, 7   and I shal putte my face in to hem. Thei shulen gon out of the fier, and the fier shal waaste hem; and &yogh;e shulen wite, for I the Lord, whanne Y shal putte my face in hem, 8   and shal &yogh;yue the loond vnwaied and desolat, for that that thei weren trespassours, seith the Lord God.
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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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