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

treuely goddis lawe & dispise pride & oþere synnys, boþe of prelatis & oþere men, he [omitted AA.] schal ben holden an ypocrite, a newe techere, an heretik, & not suffred to come [page 204] to ony benefice. but ȝif 2he have2 [2_2 omitted X.] ony litel pore place to lyuen a pore lif onne, he schal be so pursued & sclaundrid þat he schal be putt oute bi wiles, cautelis, fraudis & worldly violence, & enprisoned, disgratid or brent, ȝif anticristis clerkis may for ony gold & cursed lesyngis. ¶ And ȝif lordis schullen presente clerkis to benefices þei wolen haue comynly gold in grett quantite, & holden þes curatis in here worldly office, & suffren þe wolues of helle to stranglen mennus soulis, so þat þei haue moche gold & here office don for nouȝt, & here chapelis holden vp for veyn glorie or ypocrisie; & ȝit þei wolen not presente a clerk able of kunnynge & of [omitted AA.] good lif & holy ensaumple to þe peple, but a kechen clerk or a penne clerk or wis of [omitted X.] bildynge of castelis or worldly doynge, þouȝ he kunne not rede wel his sauter & knoweþ not þe comaundementis of god ne sacramentis of holy chirche. & ȝit summe lordis to colouren here symonye wole not take for hem self, but keuer|chiefs for þe lady, or a palfray, or a tonne of wyn; & whanne summe lordis wolden presente a goode man & able for loue of god & cristene soulis, þan summe ladies ben menys to haue a daunsere, a trippere on tapitis, or huntere or haukere, or a wilde pleiere of someres gamenes for flaterynge & ȝiftis goynge bitwixe, & ȝif it be for daunsynge in bedde so moche þe worse. & þus it semeþ þat boþe prelatis & lordis comynly maken a cursed anticrist & a quyk fend to be maister of cristis peple, for to leden hem [omitted X.] to helle, to sathanas here maistir, & suffre not cristis disciplis to teche cristis gospel to his children for to saue here soulis; & so þei traueilen to exile crist & his lawe out of his heritage, þat is cristene soulis, þat he bouȝte not wiþ roten gold ne siluer but wiþ his precious herte blood þat he schedde on þe crois bi most brennynge charite. but in þis presentynge of euyl curatis and holdynge
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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.,
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