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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 20, 2025.

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Capitulum 28m.

Ȝit þes possessioners disceyuen men by ypocrisie & wasten moche good in veyn; for þei feynen hem to rise at mydnyȝt, & spenden liȝt & oþere costis maken, & bi day slepen moche more þer-fore, þat alle þingis accountid þei han moche more tyme to slepe þan ony oþere commen men. & þus þei faren as þeues, slepynge on þe day & wagynge in þe [omitted AA.] nyȝt to robbe men of here catel by ypocrisie of þis wakynge & preiynge, & herbi þei turnen þe nyȝt in-to day & day in-to nyȝt & maken moche wast.

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