Capitulum 13m.
Þe þrittene errour; þei cursen here gostly children more for loue of worldly catel þan for brekynge of goddis hestis. For þouȝ a man breke opynly þe hestis of god, lyuynge in
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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pride, in false swerynge, [werynge X.] in opyn brekynge of þe holy day, he schal not be sompned ne ponysched ne cursed bi hem. But ȝif a man be bihynde of tiþes & oþere offryngis & cust[u]mes maad of synful men, he schal be sompned, ponyschid & cursed, ȝe þouȝ he may not lyue out of oþere mennus dette & fynde his wif & his children bi goddis comaundement; & þus þei seken more þere [here AA.] owene worschipe & wynnynge þan þe worschipe of god & sauynge of cristene soulis; & þus þei worschipen false goddis for here false coueitise. wonder it is þat þes curatis cursen so sore for here owene cause where þei schulden be pacient as crist was 3and hise apostlis3 [3_3 omitted X.] ; & so litel recken of dispit don to god where þei schulden taken al resonable vengaunce. [In AA this last clause runs "and where þat þei shulden take suche unresonable vengeaunce."]