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The English works of Wyclif hitherto unprinted.Edited by F. D. Matthew.

fend & his techen to herberwe riche men & lordis wiþ gret cost & deyitte for worldly worschipe, & suffre pore men wander in stormys & slepe wiþ þe swyn, & many tymes suffre not hem come wiþ-inne here ȝatis, & to fynde many excusacions & coloure þis doynge. ȝe, ypocritis of priuat religion maken grete houses & costy & gaely peyntid [page 180] more þan kyngis & lordis bi sotil beggynge & confessions & trentalis & meyntenynge of synne, [and] herberewe lordis & riche men & namely ladies, & suffre pore men lie wiþ-outen or geten houslewth at pore men or ellis perische for wedris & cold. ¶ Crist techiþ to visite sike men & counforte hem & helpe hem of sustenaunce; þe fend & his techen to visiten riche men, lordis & ladies in here prosperite & lykynge to be holden kynde & curteis, & to counforte eche oþer in synne & to haue lustis of glotonye, lecherie & oþere schrewidnessis, but of pore men þat ben beddrede & couchen in muk or dust is litel þouȝt on or noȝt. ¶ Ȝit ypocritis of feyned religion visiten not fadirles children & modirles & widewis in here tribu|lacion & kepe not hem self vnbleckid fro þis world, as seynt iame techiþ: but visete oft riche men & wymmen, & namely [James i. 27.] riche widewis, for to gete worldly muk by false disceitis & carien it home to caymes castelis & anticristis couent & sathanas children & marteris of glotonye. ¶ Crist techeþ to visite men in prison & helpe to delyuere hem in good manere & counforte hem bi almes ȝeuynge; þe fend & his presonen pore men for dette whanne þei ben not at power to paie, & traueile nyȝt & day & lyuen ful harde, & to lyue wiþ trewþe & susteynen [sustevnem MS.] wif & children, & on hem is no mercy. ȝit feyned religious men pursuen pore prestis to prison & to brennynge bi many cursed lesyngis & sclaundrynge priue & apert, for as mochel as þei prechen trewly & frely cristis gospel & goddis hestis & reprouen here ypocrisie, symonye, coueitise & oþere disceitis; & ȝit þes ypocritis blenden lordis & prelatis to enprisone siche pore prestis techynge þe treuþe bi comaunde|ment & ensaumple of crist & his apostlis, not-wiþstondynge
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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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