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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.
Author
Wycliffe, John, d. 1384.
Publication
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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Capitulum 27m.

Þes possessioners ben specyaly cristis enemys & anticristis, for þei dispisen & sclaundren & pursuen meke men & pore, & enhaunsen & preisen & fauoren proude men [omitted X.] & disolute; for ȝif þer be ony among hem þat drawe hem [omitted AA.] to pouert & deuocion & reproue here pride & ypocrisie, he schal be clepid ypocrite, distroier of holy chirche, & sumtyme prisoned, þat it were betre to him dwellen among heþene þan in suche congregacions; & he þat is glorious to þe world & sotil to gete worldly muk or drit of worldly frendischipe, þouȝ he leue his deuocion & goddis seruyce, he is a noble man & wole meyntene holy chirche; & þus þei ben cursed of god, for þei seyn þat good is euyl & euyl good.

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