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Prelatis also blasphemen god & techen oþere men to don þe same; for þei lyuem hem self in pride & coueitise & louen & norischen & meyntenen suche vicious folis, & haten
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 20, 2025.
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& dispisen mekenesse & wilful pouert, & so þei don vertuouse men & oppressen hem; & þus þei conspiren aȝenst crist [omitted X.] & his vertuous lif & his meke seruauntis, & ben sathanas procuratouris to meyntene synful men in his seruyce. For certis þei ben cursed of god ȝif þei meyntenen wityngly & wilfully [page 100] proude lordis & leccherours of here owne meynne in here housholde; for ȝif þei loueden god & þe soulis of here seruauntis þei schulden amende þis cursed lif or ellis putten hem out of here companye; but now for pride of hem self & wynnyng of drit þei holden forþ suche cursed meyne to sclaundre oþere men. ¶ But as crist and poul witnessen, suche prelatis ben cursed, & forsaken cristis feiþ, & ben werse þan heþen men þat neuere resceyueden cristendom.