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 18, 2025.

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Also þei ben þeues, robbynge pore men of here sustenaunce bi colour of holynesse; for þei hiȝen faste to be prestis mo þan ben nedful for þe peple, for to haue esy lif & welfare & han [omitted X.] þe almes þat god ordeyned to pore nedy men þat han not of here owene & may not labore for sikenesse or [of X.] elde; & al is demyd holynesse for helpe of here preieris, & ȝit þe beste of hem wot not what his preiere is worþe & where it turne to his owene dampnacion or saluacion. & certis þat man þat loueþ best god preieþ best, not for o man only but for alle men þat ben able to haue part þer-of, be he schephe[r]de or ploughman. [plowþman X.] þerfore prestis owen to lyuen wel & wasten not pore mennus liflode in pride, glotonye & oþere vanytes.

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