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The English works of Wyclif hitherto unprinted.Edited by F. D. Matthew.

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The English works of Wyclif hitherto unprinted.Edited by F. D. Matthew.
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Wycliffe, John, d. 1384.
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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by Trübner & co.,
1880.
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"The English works of Wyclif hitherto unprinted.Edited by F. D. Matthew." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AEH6713.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 11, 2024.

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Capitulum 15m.

Ȝit þes worldly prestis ben lik to helle, neuere ful of [Prov. xxvii. 20.] coueitise in no degree; for þei connen not be a-paied wiþ a resonable liflode ne resonable cloþinge, but euere redy to take of alle men þouȝ þei han no nede, & euele dispenden it & quiten not aȝen but stynkynge preiere bifore god, & lyuen forþ in ydelnesse & pride & oþere vanytes; for here herte is ouermoche on worldly goodis & [omitted AA.] veyn statis, what euere þe tonge sch[e]wiþ wiþ-outen forþ. & this is a venymous rote þat makiþ here seruyce & preieris not acceptable to god & helpeful to cristene peple as þei schulden be. [page 141] þerfore þis coueitise schulde be fleed of alle prestis, as ground of alle synnes as poul seiþ. [1 Tim. vi. 10.]

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