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

preiynge to vengaunce raþere þan mercy. & as austyn seiþ, whateuere heryyngis of god here tounge blabere here lif blasphemeþ god; & as god seiþ him self here preynge is cursed & abhomynable. & certis þanne schulde lordis knowe ypocrisie, heresie & disceit of worldly prelatis & feyned religious; & þanne schulden cristene men wite þat who euere lyueþ best preieþ best; & a symple pater noster of a plouȝman þat his in charite is betre þan a þousand massis of coueitouse prelatis & veyn religious ful [omitted AA.] of coueitise & pride & fals flaterynge & norischynge of synne. And for þes anticristis clerkis louen more here owene heynesse & pride & worldly ioie & welfare þan cristis honour & vertuous lif of cristene peple, þer-fore þei ratellen þat it is aȝenst charite to tellen opynly here cursed disceitis & synnes; last lordis & comyns taken fro hem here wast worldly goodis, & constreynen hem to kepe mekenesse & pouert & pennaunce, as god techiþ & here owene profession. Þus almyȝtty [page 221] god in trinyte distroieþ þes þre nestis of anticrist & his clerkis, & stireþ alle manere of men to meyntene þe treuþe of holy writt & distroie lesyngis & openly preche aȝenst ypocrisie, heresie & coueitise, boþe in word & dede, of alle euyl prelatis & prestis & peyntid reli|gious; for þan schal goode lif & treuþe & pees & charite regne among cristene men. Ihesu crist for þin endeles mercy graunte vs þis ende. Amen.