[Prologue on Jeremiah [This prologue is from M.] .]
This profete Jeremye tolde openli thingis to comynge, and not in derk speche, as Ysaie and othere profetis; for he telde vtterli the destruccioun of Jerusalem to be doon of Caldeis, and the cite and the hous of God to be brent with fijr; but warnynge hem bifore to leue her synnes, and her idolatrie, and to come aȝen to the trewe wurschiping of God, schewinge the grete merci of God, not willinge ony man to perische, that wole come to amendement.
