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Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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CAP. XI.

1   Sende thi breed on watris note passynge forth, for aftir many tymes thou schalt fynde it. 2   &YOGH;yue thou partis seuene note, and also ei&yogh;te; for thou woost not, what yuel

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schal come on erthe. 3   If cloudis ben filled, tho schulen schede out reyn on the erthe; if a tre fallith doun to the south, ether to the north, in what euer place it fallith doun, there it schal be. 4   He that aspieth the wynd note, sowith not; and he that biholdith the cloudis, schal neuere repe. 5   As thou knowist not, which is the weye of the spirit, and bi what resoun boonys ben ioyned togidere in the wombe of a womman with childe, so thou knowist not the werkis of God, which is makere of alle thingis. 6   Eerli sowe note thi seed, and thin hond ceesse not in the euentid; for thou woost not, what schal come forth more, this ethir that; and if euer eithir cometh forth togidere, it schal be the betere. 7   The li&yogh;t is sweet, and delitable to the i&yogh;en to se the sunne. 8   If a man lyueth many &yogh;eeris, and is glad in alle these, he owith to haue mynde of derk tyme note, and of many daies; and whanne tho schulen come, thingis passid note schulen be repreued of vanyte. 9   Therfor, thou &yogh;onge man, be glad note in thi &yogh;ongthe, and thin herte be in good in the daies of thi &yogh;ongthe, and go thou in the weies note of thin herte, and in the biholdyng of thin i&yogh;en; and wite thou, that for alle these thingis God shal brynge thee in to doom. 10   Do thou awei ire fro thin herte, and remoue thou malice note fro thi fleisch; for whi &yogh;ongthe and lust ben veyne thingis.
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Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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